GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The union said that the deal "commits ZeniMax to uses of AI that augment human ingenuity and capacities, to ensure that these tools enhance worker productivity, growth and satisfaction without causing workers harm."

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 14, 2023

Media Molecule has updated Dreams' usage terms, allowing players to use some of their creations outside of the platform's ecosystem. Users will only be allowed to use creations they made themselves.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 6, 2023

Share one piece of work you completed in this term and describe your process. My final project for the first term was Fox Girl. For Fox Girl , I used my daughter as a model. The first prop I made using this technique was a tree trunk. 3D model of the tree trunk Luis produced using photogrammetry. Color variation.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2024

It is sensible that B would be the preferred option as, without further information on the distribution or on longer-term outcomes, revenue seems to be supported by a substantially larger number of paying customers. Carefully designed experiments that assess the longer-term effects of starter packs can be a solution. Response: 96.3%

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The most commonly used form is a prologue. Xsolla Funding Club , a video game funding program with no upfront costs, has a goal of helping developers and studios find funding for their projects and establish long-term connections and conversations with game-focused publishers and investors.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Revenue and downloads forGossip HarborandSeaside Escapein Tier-1 West countries in Jan-Dec 2023 One title distinguished itself among other “Merge-2” games with a misleading approach used in its app store page and creatives that can potentially reduce traffic costs. Yet the genre hardly grew in terms of user spending. Match Factory! ’s

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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. Game developers often have terms of service and acceptable use policies that prohibit or restrict the use of automation tools. b) If UGUI is used, delete the directory ‘Unity3D/ngui’.

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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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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. I use Photoshop a lot. If I was using Unity, I'd still use it for now.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 19, 2021

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. Freightos is merely the big name in the industry, and the only marketplace that I have personally used and can vouch for as a result. I’ll demonstrate this now.

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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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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. Short Term: Network and look for opportunities Be proactive.

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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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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 post-processing techniques we are currently using are: Similarly, we do level control for post-processing when loading different styles.

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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

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. These goals are delegated to teams, ensuring accountability and progress.

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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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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. This demonstrates that even when your game doesn't succeed, there's still a lot to gain in terms of knowledge and even features. Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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Game Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

For us at GameDaily, there is no shortage of options relating to our area of interest; the game industry’s future in terms of business, technology, culture, employment, and consumer-driven trends. Many of these VR headmounted units are being used, happily, by children.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If you’re writing to a publisher or the press, they need to know whether this is useful to them immediately. BLUF can absolutely seem overly unattached or unemotional if applied without filter, and it is best used for sales (pitching & press) and decision-making (business partners & colleagues).

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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. Maybe not the best for Bunny to use for his Ultimate.

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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. It is an umbrella term for all immersive technologies including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR), and those yet to be developed. What is Extended Reality?

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Target SDK: 33 We’re currently using these for our game. The ANR logs are as follows, but I’m not sure where to start in terms of troubleshooting. First, let me outline our development environment: Cocos Creator Version: 3.8.1 We’ve been experiencing frequent ANRs (Application Not Responding) while our game is live.

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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. Stuff like that is going to be super powerful.”

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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. “If you look at social media spaces now, we are already trending in the wrong direction in terms of coming together with a common basis for reality. ” So, is there a solution?

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

Two platforms In terms of demographics, the gaming market has become more equitable, with women gamers accounting for 40% of the total PC and console player base. Moreover, 72% of PC and/or console players use at least two platforms. The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime also had a similar impact on the franchise.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 10, 2024

Which do you still use? BBC BASIC is still going strong , with a beautifully implemented version that you can use today on your modern computer and even an amazing browser-based implementation or check out BBC BASIC running in tweets. It was surprisingly useful in terms of programming concepts, including being forced to use Vi, ha.

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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.” The lack of time has definitely been the hardest part.”

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