Guerrilla Games confirms a Horizon co-op spinoff is in development
Game Developer
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Sections of Horizon Forbidden West feel like testing grounds for co-op, so you can't say it's out of nowhere.
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WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
GameFromScratch.com WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced Out of nowhere and with no announcements, Gaijin Entertainment, the makers of the popular MMO War Thunder have just released the source code to the underlying game engine Dagor Engine.
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Unity's crisis is much bigger than John Riccitiello | Opinion
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 13, 2023
John Riccitiello's retirement from the company – effective immediately, no less – is indeed a vanishingly rare thing in the games business, where blame for failure and poor judgement all too often trickles down the org chart and leaves top management unscathed. Read more
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Sci-fi 3D art for games: 4 main mistakes you should avoid
Moonmana
AUGUST 15, 2022
Creating a video game is not a simple task, it is a time and effort-consuming, and challenging process. It takes a team of developers, designers, 2D 3D artists, project managers, and producers to work hard to deliver a high-quality and lucrative game that will reach the top. This makes a difference, too. This is it! 6 minutes read.
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Board Game Designer vs. Developer vs. Publisher
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Creating board games takes an enormous amount of time and effort. The simple fact is that there are a lot of distinct tasks that have to be handled to turn a game from an idea into reality. This is why I urge each new board game designer to share the workload , delegating tasks to a team instead of doing them all alone.
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How VR changes how games are played
Rampant Games
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Not that all (or even most) of my gaming is in VR. I’m still retro-gaming regularly and I am really looking forward to the PC release of Persona 5 next month. But… VR is a wild and exciting frontier, and I’m still nowhere near jaded. And yes, I’ve played exactly that.
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Solo dev Jordan Mochi: “I’ve sacrified a lot of my 20’s to make Conscript”
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I feel like I was put on Earth to make this game”, he says. “I’ve Working on the game completely by himself has been tough at times. Mochi found a publisher in Team17 and expects to release the game in 2024.
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Why do we play games?
Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Gaming is a mysterious hobby, isn’t it? In a world of so many opportunities (and distractions), what draws us to the gaming table week after week? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Games are Social. A Game is a Microcosm of Life.
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Game Informer 2017 Adventure Game Of The Year Awards
Grumpy Gamer
JANUARY 9, 2018
The ending of Thimbleweed Park doesn't come out of nowhere. It's kind of the whole point of the game (and before the game). Gameinformer 2017 Adventure Game Of The Year Awards. Gameinformer 2017 Adventure Game Of The Year Awards. This homage to older adventure games pokes fun at the genre as well as embraces it.
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How to Understand the Tabletop Gaming News Cycle
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Over the last couple of weeks of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher , I’ve talked about some of the strange goings-on I’ve noticed in the board game industry. Today, we’re going to talk about the tabletop gaming news cycle, and why it is – frankly – just plain weird.
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Michael Blaker’s Translation Necessary Thursday: “Survival in Another World With My Mistress Volume 01”
Game Industry News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
The difference in this particular series is the fact that the main character, Kousuke, wakes up in a forest after being transported from Earth to another world, and finds he has the ability to treat the reality in this new world like Minecraft and other such survival video games he had played on Earth.
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5 Lessons from Mario Party for Board Game Developers
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 4, 2021
Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Seeing Your Childhood Games with Older Eyes. What I didn’t expect, however, was just how well many of my childhood games held up. After all, the game promised frantic fun for four players on its box.
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Solo dev Jonathan C Haman created “the glorious Drift Type C – which no one is buying”
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 7, 2023
After releasing Drift Type C , a ‘real physics driving game crafted with an unyielding dedication to authenticity’, Haman finds time to talk about his work. Writing games was always the impossible dream for me – like being an actor or an astronaut or a dinosaur. That game was not Drift Type C. And the biggest pitfalls? “No
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Michael Blaker’s Anime Sunday: “Saving 80,000 Gold” Episode 01 Impressions
Game Industry News
APRIL 16, 2023
Art: The animation is pretty good from Studio Felix although it’s nowhere near ufotable quality. The post Michael Blaker’s Anime Sunday: “Saving 80,000 Gold” Episode 01 Impressions appeared first on Game Industry News. It’s still much better than anything by Studio Deen.
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How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 2
Brand Game Development
JUNE 18, 2018
Board game conventions are the flashiest events in board gaming. It should come as no surprise that many game creators go to conventions to pick up customers. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You can buy it here now. DreamHack too.
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What Would Kickstarter do for the Board Game Industry in an Ideal World?
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Within the board game community, there is no site that has shaken up the industry more than Kickstarter. While BoardGameGeek has been around for almost 17 years and remains the unquestioned mecca of the board game community, nothing has had more influence on board games recently than Kickstarter. Need help on your board game?
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Issues with post processing in 3.8.1
Cocos
MARCH 19, 2024
When following the instructions in the chinese tutorial, I do the following: FYI, the tutorial I’m referencing can be found here… Global glow after-effects in Cocos Creator 3.8 My steps… Add the word “Custom” to the “Custom Pipeline Name” property in the project settings.
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How to Fight “Tired Mode” as a Game Dev
Brand Game Development
JULY 28, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week in Start to Finish , I wrote Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish or Not , an article dedicated to the benefits and pitfalls of self-publishing your game. Need help on your board game?
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How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 1
Brand Game Development
JUNE 11, 2018
Board game conventions have a certain mystique to them. As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re giving away a copy on the Pangea Games Facebook.
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Sims 4 Crashing without Error: Here’s Why and How to Fix it
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Sims 4 is one of the most famous life simulation video games published by EA Origin. The game has been made available on all gaming platforms for free, thereby attracting a lot of players. This problem is very common on PCs but lesser on game consoles. Why is My Sims 4 crashing out of nowhere? GET DRIVERFIX 2.
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I understand one should never jump over the recruiter to the hiring manager. But is contacting the department people via Linkedin and ask for pointers ok (after being in touch with the recruiter)? Since knowing what they’re working on exactly could help my direction in submitting a demo.
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 7, 2022
ALT First, game studios are often pretty big. The stuff I’m working on hasn’t been announced yet and is nowhere near ready for prime time. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ. I would advise against it for a number of reasons. It’s worth it.
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Outside, Dungeon, Town: integrating the Three Places in Videogames
Keith Burgun
MARCH 13, 2024
Videogames, at least the kind I’m talking about (RPGs, adventure kinds of somewhat narrative videogames, Zelda games, Elden Ring, etc), have essentially three “places”: Outside – Hyrule field. Most of the game is Outside, just running around in a grassy area or a snowy mountain.
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Dev Diary: 03/31/17
Brand Game Development
MARCH 31, 2017
Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Naturally, this game is nowhere remotely close to completion. Also, the game doesn’t have a defined win condition yet. The post Dev Diary: 03/31/17 appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.
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2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened
Harold Serrano
DECEMBER 28, 2022
But the main reason was the lack of direction for the game engine. For most of the year, I had no idea what to do with my game engine. I wanted to niche down my game engine to a game genre. But could not decide on the game genre. My instinct was to make the Untold Engine a Football Game Engine.
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6 Ways to Cope with Kickstarter Anxiety as a Board Game Dev
Brand Game Development
MARCH 16, 2018
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You need to make a great game. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?
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Brawl Stars Ditched the Loot Boxes - Was it a Good Move and Should Other Games Follow?
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 2, 2023
Brawl Boxes had been there since the release of the game, and were an integral part of its progression and monetization systems. And ultimately, it’s the most recent step in a direction that Brawl Stars has been moving towards in the past few years as the game has been gradually removing the impact of lootboxes in the progression.
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Happy Star Trek: Prodigy Thanksgiving!
Game Industry News
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
In that sense, Prodigy has a unique relationship with canon that we see absolutely nowhere else in the Star Trek franchise; Prodigy forces Starfleet to face its failures while also doing it from a place of love. appeared first on Game Industry News. Not even Lower Decks quite manages that.
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Agency
iHobo
JULY 12, 2023
Ten Player Motives #10 Discussing the narrative motive, we came up against an essential problem of using games as a storytelling medium: the player expects to have influence within the game world. Not between stories and games, as the line is typically drawn, but between agency and narrative.
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Origins of Ghost Master, Part Two
iHobo
MAY 23, 2023
Of all my hundreds of game projects, this is still the title where I am most proud of the game design, the project where I beam with pride when I think of the incredible team and the contributions everyone made to make such a memorable and unique experience. Today is the twentieth anniversary of the release of Ghost Master.
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Would “Sword Art Online” Be a Bad VR Game?
Rampant Games
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.
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ROG Ally Cloud Recovery Stuck on the Checking [Quick Fix]
Game Errors
JULY 17, 2023
Regardless if the problem occurred from nowhere or you tried to upgrade the console’s memory, we have a way to resolve it! Related articles: Cloud Recovery Server Authentication Failed ROG Ally [Fixed] ROG Ally Left Bumper Not Working: How To Fix It Quickly ROG Ally Not Detecting SD Card: How To Make It Work Games Crashing On ROG Ally?
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Destiny 2 Error Code Guitar: How to Fix It
Game Errors
MAY 30, 2023
Out of nowhere, in the middle of gameplay, the Destiny 2 error code Guitar happened and ruined everything. Can’t get into your game account? Additionally, it can be caused by server maintenance, temporary issues with the network devices, a pilled-up game launcher cache, an outdated network driver, or corrupted game files.
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Dev error 6068 in Call of Duty Warzone & MW2? Here’s the Fix
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
It may occur at launch, while playing, or out of nowhere and ruin your game. These include: Issues with graphics settings Outdated OS, such as PCs running on an older version of Windows 10 Issues with optimal settings and game configuration Corrupt game files How do I fix Dev Error 6068 Warzone? If so, you are not alone.
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Apex Legends “Data Center Downloading 0” Error [Fixed]
Game Errors
MAY 9, 2023
Apex Legends is a free-to-play, high-production battle royale game that came out of nowhere and achieved notable results in a saturated market of battle royale titles. The foundation for the game’s success lies in its quality, but it also has enough specificity for its identity in a competitive market. Click on it.
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So How Long Until My Business Just Dies? (Also, the Unity Debacle)
The Bottom Feeder
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. Basically, developers would be charged money per game install, no matter where that came from. Most people who want to write a video game need to buy a piece of software called a Game Engine.
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Making A Better Card Feel Worse With UX
Tom Francis
AUGUST 12, 2019
Nowhere Prophet has a power where each turn you can choose 1 card from your hand to discard, and draw another to replace it. But experientially, Nowhere Prophet’s feels more positive. Slay the Spire has a power where you draw 1 extra card per turn, then must discard 1 of your choice right after.
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Understanding the RP4K Elite Program
Real Programming
OCTOBER 18, 2022
In coding, programmers advance through RP4K classes until there’s nowhere higher to go. We make a fun coding curriculum by putting video games at the centre of all our lessons. That’s why we put video games at the centre of all our lessons. The games we teach our students help us to achieve both objectives.
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Poker on Film: Why Casinos Remain Appealing in Cinema
Filmustage
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
The glamorous world of casinos, gambling, and card games is alluring to many. And nowhere is this appeal more obvious than on film. An good introduction to casino games Cinema has been one of the driving reasons for poker’s popularity. billion in revenue thanks to the big jump in new visitors.
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Alan Wake 2: The art of horror
Game Daily
OCTOBER 20, 2023
GameDaily spoke to Alan Wake 2 game director Kyle Rowley, and principle narrative designer Molly Maloney about how they go about creating fear in their players. Kyle Rowley: We wanted to figure out what kind of horror experience we wanted to make, based on Alan Wake as an established franchise, and the things that we did in the first game.
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Out Now • Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 9, 2023
As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. But the end is here, the game is out now on steam. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.”
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5 Lessons I Learned at a Play-Testing Convention (Protospiel Atlanta)
Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game? Click here.
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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek Prodigy’s “Preludes” Episode
Game Industry News
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Zero’s story was obviously less of a surprise, but Jankom Pog comes out of nowhere to have a heart of gold underneath his Tellarite grumpiness. The post Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek Prodigy’s “Preludes” Episode appeared first on Game Industry News. I still want to know more about what’s going on with Murf.
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Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet.
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The Uncomfortably Comfortable Supercell Talk
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Supercell CEO’s annual blog post is a personal, inspirational, and sincere communication method from the top brass of a major mobile games company. Supercell hasn’t released new games since 2018. Their live games portfolio is not growing. New Game Teams = “Startups” Supercell’s game leads were originally seen as “mini-CEOs”.
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