The GameDev Guru

MAY 12, 2022

Discover the performance challenges of crowd rendering & how to render thousands of character in Unity within your tight performance budget

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 alpha 8 ! It includes notably Text-to-Speech support on all platforms (as a feature for games/applications, the Godot editor itself doesn't make use of it for now), and a refactoring of the module/extension initialization levels to allow more flexibility for third-party code.

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Filmustage

MAY 11, 2022

The International Festival de Cannes is an event that cannot be overstated. One of the brightest and most influential film event of the year, that will take place from 17 to 28 May and will bring us many great premieres: from "Crimes of the Future" by David Cronenberg to "Armageddon Time" by James Gray ! The Cannes Film Festival was born on September 20, 1946 and since then the gaze of industry executives and cinephiles all over the world has rested on the small town in the south of France.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Yes, I am going back to this well one more time. I've already written about Elden Ring. It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. It's such a big, successful title, with so much strangeness, that there's a lot to learn.

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Smart Fox Server

MAY 12, 2022

We just released SFS2X patch 2.18.3 which fixes a couple of problems with the Analytics module, adds IP-range support for Admin clients and fixes a minor UI issue with the AdminTool. You can read the release notes and proceed with the download from here. While you are at it, also check out the latest client API in our dedicated download section. Please note : the patch requires SFS2X 2.18.0 to be already installed.

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The Astronauts

MAY 12, 2022

A while ago I wrote about speeding up Blender’s Wavefront OBJ exporter. All that landed into Blender 3.2. And since that was quite a nice experience, I started to look into the OBJ importer… Existing Python importer Blender 3.1 and earlier has an OBJ importer written in Python. From a quick look, it was written “ages ago” and has largely unchanged since then.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Now I’m sure this won’t be a comprehensive summary, mainly since it’s harder for me to quickly step back and reflect enough on the bigger picture to think of eve

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Retro Game Coders

MAY 10, 2022

So far in our Atari ST text adventure using STOS , we have been loading test data via inline data statements. There are some advantages to that, which we can discuss, but also some frustrations so let’s take a look at moving our data outside of the code so we can work on data and the game itself separately. Pros and Cons of External Data As software gets more complicated, you will find programmers lean toward “separation” – ie. not having everything all in one big file.

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