Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 3, 2023

All the dialogs in Return to Monkey Island were done in a format called yack. These we created for Thimbleweed Park and (very) loosely based on Ink. During the Secret of Monkey Island and LeChucks Revenge, these were all hand-coded in SCUMM and a pain in the [REDACTED].

Scripting 111

Scripting Writing Engine Engineering 111

GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 13, 2023

One thing that looms large over the company's findings is the state of the wider economy, something Unity itself bemoaned as it laid off several hundred employees earlier this year. Read more

AI 93

AI Data Engine Engineering 93

Smart Fox Server

APRIL 17, 2023

“Project Loom”) are very interesting for scalability, especially when dealing with thousands of requests that may wait on slow I/O, such as Extensions calling a database, external services and similar. Q: What about the addition of virtual threads in Java 19/20? Virtual threads (a.k.a.

Feature 53

Feature Writing Localization Engine 53

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2023

During the 1950s, there was a surge in alien invasion movies, fueled by Cold War paranoia and the looming threat of nuclear destruction. Colors don’t make sense Squad 51 vs the Flying Saucers stays admirably close to its source material. Both the story and game are presented in black and white and it works remarkably well.

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Cutscenes Film Studios Asset 104