CG Spectrum

JANUARY 6, 2023

Tell us a bit about your role as a freelance illustrator at Monumental. After working as a freelance artist in Chile for almost ten years, Luis Inzunza felt he had reached the peak of what he could do locally, so he set his sights on a more global career. To achieve this goal, he knew he'd have to sharpen his digital illustration skills.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 1, 2023

This is an LTS or Long Term Support release of the Unity game engine, meaning it will continue to see patches and updates for two years and is therefore the recommended version to use if you are starting a project today. GameFromScratch.com Unity 2022 LTS Released Unity have just released Unity 2022 LTS.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Virtual reality was building up into a solid and very interesting niche but seemed destined to remain confined to that niche – and so the talk of evangelists in this area shifted to AR, the next step beyond VR which, they claimed, would be vastly more useful, more appealing to consumers, and ultimately a much, much bigger market.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, FreePlay shared with us that they evaluated the market in terms of downloads and revenue monthly and checked the performance of new game releases weekly. Which channels do you mostly use to look for and identify social trends? This data can be easily tracked using Google Trends.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The most commonly used form is a prologue. Disclosure: This article has been written as a part of a paid cooperation with Xsolla Game demos are as important to a successful game marketing strategy as trailers and advertising. A game demo is more than a condensed snapshot of your game. What kind of demo do you need?

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Animators typically count things in terms of frames. Some designers care about frames specifically too, but engineers and designers generally use milliseconds or decimal seconds (e.g. Our debug logging keeps tabs on everything in terms of milliseconds so we can see how temporally far apart events in the log fire.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 1, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The Federal Trade Commission has published a warning to companies about overselling claims around the use of artificial intelligence in their products.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 14, 2023

Much like the actual practice of commercial whaling, the term is so loaded with negative connotations that publishers typically don't use it, at least not in public. Read more

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Animation Animation Games 103

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2024

Good starter packs are indispensable for effective freemium monetization. But, in the heat of marketing and live operations, too strong a focus on conversion can lead you to price your starter packs too low. Carefully designed experiments and personalization strategies can be a solution! So far so good. What really surprised me: 96.3%

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Rocket Brush Studio

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To test such probabilistic systems, Metamorphic testing is used to describe the system functionality in terms of generic relations between inputs, the generic transformations of those inputs and their outputs, rather than as mappings of specific inputs to specific outputs.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Methodology The report mainly focuses on the performance of the mobile games market in Tier-1 West countries, which include the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France and Germany. Top image: Merge Mansion. 2023 turned out to be no less challenging for the mobile market than the year before.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

A Wizards spokesperson, who talked to Bloomberg , said the company is still "committed to using digital games" but "made some changes to our long-term portfolio to focus on games which are strategically aligned with developing our existing brands and those which show promise in expanding or engaging our audience in new ways.".

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Depth is a term used to describe players making skill-testing choices without a clearly correct answer. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered? Players are thus able to demonstrate their skill in the game through making good decisions.

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It's the tool you use to make games. Unity, needing money, announced that it was changing the terms to use it. In a way that would cause enormous difficulties (up to and including instant business death) to the developers who use it. Happily, I was on vacation during most of this and was barely aware of it. The basics: 1.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 19, 2021

One that I’ve used and that I personally like is Freightos. One that I’ve used and that I personally like is Freightos. Suffice it to say, these days, you don’t have to use a freight broker if you don’t want to. You can book your own freight, and I’ve even done so with Tasty Humans to good effect.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This functionality is particularly useful for gamers who engage in multi-boxing or managing multiple characters/accounts within a game. Introduction: In the world of gaming, automation tools have become increasingly popular among players who seek to optimize their gaming experience. What is POCO Driver?

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 4, 2024

Using his Ultimate ability, Cast a Magic Trick!, In terms of weakness, Bunny’s extremely low health (most characters have more than twice his starting amount) means that he’s quite vulnerable early on if he doesn’t get his healing engine going quickly. Perhaps it was broken, Bunny thought.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly. If you’re writing to a publisher or the press, they need to know whether this is useful to them immediately. This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 10, 2024

Which do you still use? Above you can see us – my brother, Jay, cousin Ian and me on the right feeding my bacon sandwich to our dog, Patch. As well as games of Jetpac and Jet Set Willy, this computer had a role in teaching us a version of Turtle Graphics called LOGO. How did you get into programming?

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Logic Simplified

MAY 21, 2023

With games like Axie Infinity, a top P2E title, non-fungible tokens can not only be used as abilities, characters and other virtual in-game assets but they can be bought and sold for real money. NFTs or Non-Fungible tokens are blockchain-based tokens that are used to represent virtual assets or items in video games. billion by 2027.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2024

It doesn't have to be, and Andy Duthie of MY.GAMES is here to show us the ropes. In his words, the short-term goals lasting about a month, focus on tasks like building specific features or advancing certain aspects of publishing. The mid-term goals usually correspond to quarters and have higher-level KPIs.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

That has allowed us to simplify the process of creating assets for the game. The game uses a mixture of custom 3D models made by ourselves, as well as 3D asset packs purchased. The important thing was to make the visual style consistent across all the assets used.” We judge each feature based on three criteria.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Expressive characters Using Unity as their engine, the biggest challenge was creating a visually distinct 2.5D Expressive characters Using Unity as their engine, the biggest challenge was creating a visually distinct 2.5D As Canadians and self proclaimed sport fanatics, hockey is ingrained in their daily lives.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By using Amazon GameLift for dedicated server management, the Norsfell development team can easily test and deploy new environments and scale Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) fleets based on demand and budgets. Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thank you to the cocos team for providing a great engine that allowed us to build this game without technical constraints, and to use our creative space and abilities as we pleased. The address is as follows: Switch on Steam InOutPath (steampowered.com) A lot of emotions as a member of an indie game team.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In terms of technology and such, they are correct - running a server process in the cloud today is pretty cheap. We pay for how much CPU time our processes end up using and old games don't use up that much since there aren't that many players, so the cost of running the server itself is not that high.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This week – and just a few days after the unveiling of Meta’s new Quest 3 headset – Zuckerberg demonstrated how far the company has come in terms of “ codec scans ” that deliver detailed facial animations in real time, for the purposes of conversation. “We collapse that into a codec.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

Performance of the different regions in 2022, including year-on-year growth rates.The US and China accounted for 48% of PC and console spending. The HBO adaptation of The Last of Us was a massive hit and helped to increase the game’s popularity. Moreover, 72% of PC and/or console players use at least two platforms.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Live streaming is generally a useful proxy for broader appetite and purchase intent. The similarities are so strong that it has earned the game the moniker ‘Pokémon with guns.’ More so, its environment and heads-up display look eerily similar to that from Zelda: Breath of the Wild. temperature, weather). million players.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2023

askagamedev : In a similar vein as my previous series “A Gamer’s Primer to Financial Literacy using Warcraft 3″, given recent events I thought it would be prudent to write a primer for those new to the adulting world to help them through a really rough time for anyone - a job loss. Now, if you can. Immediate: Make a Doctor/Dental/etc.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2024

Color scheme and palette Noting Freelancer as a big inspiration both in terms of gameplay and general styling, Brock was especially taken by that game’s color scheme and palette. “I’ve So I looked at how they used colors to differentiate between the various regions. I didn’t listen. I don’t usually listen.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is just a copy of the metagame that Royal Riches had which is what social casino players have been used to for a long time with Coin Masters. It is just a copy of the metagame that Royal Riches had which is what social casino players have been used to for a long time with Coin Masters. And pivot that they did.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 8, 2023

XR is a term that encompasses a range of technologies that aim to enhance or expand our perception of the world around us. XR is a term that encompasses a range of technologies that aim to enhance or expand our perception of the world around us. What is Extended Reality? What is Artificial Intelligence?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The game is not huge in terms of locations, but lots of things are randomized, many events happening when you least expect them. “The more you raise the bar, the more you risk disappointing somebody.” Three Minutes to Eight tells the story of a man that is destined to meet his demise at exactly 7:53PM, indeed Three Minutes to Eight.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

We know that interoperability is a technical term mostly used to describe the movement of avatars and digital assets between metaverses. We know that interoperability is a technical term mostly used to describe the movement of avatars and digital assets between metaverses. The metaverse will not change those needs.

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Media Technology Communications AI 98

Tiny Hydra

MARCH 16, 2021

When talking to teams that are early in the development process, they often tell us they want to make either a vertical slice or an MVP (minimum viable product) of their game. We find these two terms get used interchangeably when in fact, they are very different. The post Vertical Slice vs MVP: What’s the Difference?

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Cocos

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I am working on one game that is using Unity. The financials and terms of the fees are mostly an issue for free-to-play or ad-based games, which I try to avoid working on. dogwalker: BTW, have you seen the debacle over at Unity?? Wow, I’m glad I’m not on that platform. I do plan on eventually trying Unreal, but no hurry.

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