Game Developer
MARCH 11, 2024
Deconstructeam speaks about the reasons why they made players craft their own tarot cards, and how that very player creativity creates tighter connections to their story and world.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 15, 2024
In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players can’t lift out of the levels. This leads to some unexpected and quite frankly, explosive situations as the game progresses. Game Swing was founded in 2013 by five Danish game design students. Back then the company was called Reign Bros, but a few years later they decided to change the name.
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GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox VR game studio Thirdverse has announced that it has secured $3.3 million in a funding round. The investment was via a third-party allotment of shares underwritten by Nissei Capital and VeriServe.
Nvidia
MARCH 14, 2024
Mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) architectures have recently emerged, both in proprietary LLMs such as GPT-4, as well as in community models. Mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) architectures have recently emerged, both in proprietary LLMs such as GPT-4, as well as in community models with the open-source release of Mistral Mixtral 8x7B.
Game Developer
MARCH 15, 2024
The sales numbers aren't guaranteed, but it's quite clear Helldivers 2 has captured the hearts and minds of plenty since its mid-February release.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 13, 2024
When the allure of game development clashes with the necessity of a traditional job, the only choice is to juggle both endeavors simultaneously. And that’s exactly what Jason Larabie did. Operating under the name RodentGames, Larabie has taught himself the necessary skills to create his upcoming game Artificer’s Tower, a happy mix of base building, management sim and boss battles.
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Nvidia
MARCH 11, 2024
Today, NVIDIA, and the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) announced the AOUSD Materials Working Group, an initiative for standardizing the interchange of materials in. Today, NVIDIA, and the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) announced the AOUSD Materials Working Group, an initiative for standardizing the interchange of materials in Universal Scene Description, known as OpenUSD.
Game Developer
MARCH 13, 2024
'The best results and quality needed can only be achieved by experts in their field utilising GenAI as a new, powerful tool in their creative process.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 11, 2024
When the Kickstarter campaign ended, cozy adventure game Mika and the Witch’s Mountain by Spanish indie developer Chibig didn’t just achieve its goal. It pulverised it! The team had asked for a modest €40,000 to complete the game’s development, but managed to raise a whopping €1,300,368. Clearly, people loved what they saw in that little witch that is flying around on her broom, delivering packages.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's been well established by now that things are tough in the games industry at the moment. Rather than future growth, many business leaders are focused on ensuring their business simply survives through 2024, with the ongoing wave of mass layoffs and closures a sign of how many are struggling.
Nvidia
MARCH 11, 2024
GPU-driven rendering has long been a major goal for many game applications. It enables better scalability for handling large virtual scenes and reduces cases. GPU-driven rendering has long been a major goal for many game applications. It enables better scalability for handling large virtual scenes and reduces cases where the CPU could bottleneck a game’s performance.
Game Developer
MARCH 13, 2024
Stephen Gillmurphy and Tommy Tone talk about using the naturally-frayed edges of long-term serial narratives to explore absurd, hilarious, and creepy situations in Anthology of the Killer.
AWS Games
MARCH 12, 2024
More than entertainment, video games unite people across the globe with common interests. It’s that sense of community that drives Freedom Games to support indie developers in bringing their titles to players worldwide. Established in 2020, Freedom Games has built a platform that supports many indie studios every year, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the core infrastructure.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
When GamesIndustry.biz reports on Circana, it's usually the tracking firm's reports on US consumer spending in the past month. But when we speak with Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, our first question is about what he sees happening in the months to come. "Right now my most optimistic outlook is down about 2%," Piscatella says. "If you start looking a little bit on the more pessimistic side, you're looking at down about 10%.
Indie DB
MARCH 13, 2024
The award-winning Call of Duty Rio is becoming a full game on Unreal Engine 5. This time focused on the best graphics available on modern PCs and Consoles and without the limitations of a mod. Returns, continuing the incredible bloody saga in the city.
Game Developer
MARCH 12, 2024
The company recently told investors the shooter was performing at 'significantly lower levels' than expected, and now it's looking for a new CEO.
Game Industry News
MARCH 13, 2024
Hey all, I’m back with the fourth entry in Jia and Eui’s adventures for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s “Fates Parallel Volume 04” by Dark Technomancer. Plot: This volume starts off with a bit of a time skip after the fallout at the end of the third volume, which makes sense given where Jia and Eui ended up. Still, we get to see Jia and Eui’s growth over the time skip of a couple years, and how much the world changed afterwards.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. After six years of purchasing a variety of developers and publishers, Embracer Group this week confirmed its first sale.
Indie DB
MARCH 12, 2024
Endzone 2 Announcement! Survivors, the time has come to surpass the confining limits of these lands. Our brightest minds have constructed machinery that allows us to break free and venture beyond our borders!
Game Developer
MARCH 14, 2024
Paul Hart and Lee Williams talk about designing a dungeon crawler around words and how they designed systems for combat and general play around players being able to type or say anything.
Game Industry News
MARCH 9, 2024
Hey all, I’m back for this week’s Synth Saturday with a Fic that is easily one of the best I’ve read and fuses together two separate settings incredibly well. It’s Chapters 1-5 of “As N Approaches Infinity” by Corisanna. Plot: This Fic is a fusion between the Bleach and Madoka Magica settings, and it does so very well. It takes place before the final timeline of Madoka Magica’s anime, and it details a time when the time traveling Homura Akemi is so broken and despondent at her failur
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 9, 2024
New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. It was formed in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, two development veterans best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise. By 2021 it had over 100 employees, and the studio signed a deal with PlayStation to create an original AAA IP for the company. But the project hit challenges.
Indie DB
MARCH 15, 2024
We have released a demo of our game, where characters like Alice from Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood fight Count Dracula and other representatives of the forces of evil.
Game Developer
MARCH 14, 2024
Respawn gets caught up in EA's recent layoff wave, with the brunt of it seemingly going to the Apex Legends team.
Game From Scratch
MARCH 13, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Godot 4.3 Has a New FBX Importer With the release of Godot 4 the built in FBX importer was removed and replaced with FBX2glTF. This gave better results than Godot 3.x FBX importing but was a pain to work with. Thankfully with the release of Godot 4.3 (starting with Godot 4.3 Dev 4) we have a new […] The post Godot 4.3 Has a New FBX Importer appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Roar Games has received an investment of $1.5 million from The Games Fund. As reported by VentureBeat , the studio was established in 2023 by the founders of the production firm Zheeshee.
Real Programming
MARCH 15, 2024
Parents enroll their children in after-school programs for two main reasons. They want them to learn something important that they’ll use later, in life or their careers. But more than that, they want them to have fun and enjoy their childhoods. In over twenty years of teaching kids to code, RP4K has found that these two things are deeply connected.
Game Developer
MARCH 12, 2024
The one-of-a-kind British programmer behind Gridrunner, Tempest 2000, Polybius opens up about his life, his relationship, and the future.
Indie DB
MARCH 14, 2024
Explore Plague: London 1665 - a historical tale unfolds. Demo in April/May, release this year. Join us at Steam Next Fest in June. Stay tuned for updates!
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
Epic Games has announced new pricing for its Unreal Engine for developers outside the gaming industry. As detailed in a blog post , when Unreal 5.4 engine is launched in late April, Epic will introduce a new "seat-based" subscription for industries outside game development. The annual cost of this subscription is $1,850 per user, providing access to Epic's Unreal Engine, its real-time visualisation tool Twinmotion, and photogrammetry software RealityCapture.
Rocket Brush Studio
MARCH 12, 2024
Data is perhaps the best resource that has guided business decisions since commerce was invented. Today, we have capabilities that allow us to store, analyze, and derive actionable insights from business information. It has allowed companies to adapt their business plans to meet changing consumer needs and predict future trends. However, with these innovative processes and technologies come new problems for us.
Game Developer
MARCH 13, 2024
CEO and president of Gun Interactive makes a passionate case for why the industry needs to return to manageable, mid-tier game development.
Indie DB
MARCH 9, 2024
Assembly RTS is a real-time strategy game with deep customization mechanics. Discover seemingly endless possibilities. Assemble your perfect army and conquer the enemy! Build a base, gather resources and persist in a hostile, arctic new ice age.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's almost twenty years since Steam evolved from being an automatic patching system for Valve's games into being a digital storefront for third parties, heralding the true arrival of the digital distribution era that had been forecast for years prior. We're now all living in the future that Steam ushered in, for better or worse.
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