2023

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Challenges in porting to Nintendo Switch - How Pingle Studio ported Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Game Developer

Vladyslav Popushoi, Project Lead of the UE4 Department at Pingle Studio, shares his team's experience with their successful port of the PC version of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach to Nintendo Switch.

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Video game and console sales jump in Europe during August | European Monthly Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

10.7 million video games from AAA publishers were sold across Europe last month, GSD data reports. That's a rise of nearly 29% over August last year. It's an impressive result, especially as the big game of August - Baldur's Gate 3 - is not counted in this data as publisher Larian is not part of the GSD panel. Instead, FIFA 23 is No.1. The football game saw a particularly big spike in sales on Nintendo Switch, as the game was on offer via the Nintendo eShop.

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Unity’s Trap

Tom Francis

Last week, Unity announced that they will soon start charging developers $0.20 each time their games are installed, past certain (high) thresholds. This came as a surprise to me and a few thousand other developers who chose Unity, invested in it, and paid for it in large part because they told us they wouldn’t take any of our revenue. The reaction has been huge, but it’s not clear yet if Unity will make it right.

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Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

Unity Blog

In January 2024, Unity will introduce a new Unity Runtime Fee based on game installs. Prior to this, Unity subscription plans will add cloud-based asset storage, Unity DevOps tools, and AI at runtime at no additional cost.

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Unity Announce New Pricing and Plan Changes

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Unity Announce New Pricing and Plan Changes Today Unity have announced several massive changes to their pricing structure and the plans available to users of the Unity game engine. The heart of the changes is a new Unity Runtime fee, that kicks in January 1st (even on already shipped Unity titles!), which will require developers to pay … Unity Announce New Pricing and Plan Changes Read More The post Unity Announce New Pricing and Plan Changes appeared first on GameFromS

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Making Gaussian Splats smaller

The Astronauts

In the previous post I started to look at Gaussian Splatting. One of the issues with it, is that the data sets are not exactly small. The renders look nice: But each of the “bike”, “truck”, “garden” data sets is respectively a 1.42GB, 0.59GB, 1.35GB PLY file. And they are loaded pretty much as-is into GPU memory as giant structured buffers, so at least that much VRAM is needed too (plus more for sorting, plus in the official viewer implementation the tiled spl

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Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity

AWS Games

Ensuring online communities are safe and inclusive places for all is essential for maintaining community engagement and ultimately obtaining the most value for your users. This challenge presents itself in many industries – ranging from gaming to social media networks. However, the volume of data and interactions between users increases daily making policing these communities more and more difficult.

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Origins of Ghost Master, Part Two

iHobo

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the release of Ghost Master. 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. Destiny was stacked against the game, but it did not pass unnoticed, and to this day I am forever discovering new fans who played - and loved - this extraordinary haunting si

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Team17 has partnered with Expression Games to co-develop Hell Let Loose

Game Development News

Team17 Digital has announced that Expression Games will now work with them to co-develop Hell Let Loose

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Unity apologizes to devs, reveals updated Runtime Fee policy

Game Developer

Unity's updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity.

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DreamHack taps Guy Blomberg to oversee North American festivals

Game Developer

Blomberg's previous experience with trade shows and events like E3 and Comic-Con will be used to help make DreamHack "a broader festival and celebration of all types of video games.

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Embracer has conducted layoffs at Tomb Raider dev Crystal Dynamics

Game Developer

Embracer continues to enact layoffs at its various subsidiaries, with the newest round said to be hitting various departments at Crystal Dynamics.

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Unity wants to rebuild trust, but one major Runtime Fee claim doesn't add up

Game Developer

Unity appears to have quietly backtracked over how it intends to handle subscription service fees, and that's a cause for concern.

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Unity developer group dissolves after company "completely eroded trust"

Game Developer

The Boston Unity Group no longer want their name tied to Unity after the company's recent business moves, and are calling it quits to focus on the city's larger community of developers.

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Godot Engine launches funding initiative to fuel long-term growth

Game Developer

The engine maker hopes its new development fund will give it more financial freedom and ensure it keeps up with the growing scale of its project.

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Unity's Just Not Into You, Indie Developer

Game Developer

How can you trust a business partner that will radically change the terms not only of your future relationship, but your existing one as well?

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Unity tweaks new install fees as developers threaten to jump ship

Game Developer

The company has tweaked its policy to counter potential "install-bombing" and clarified how titles on Xbox Game Pass and similar services will be impacted.

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Report: Unity narrows controversial Runtime Fee policy

Game Developer

Outcry from the game development community has led to Unity rethinking its upcoming policy change, which it still insists will affect a small amount of users.

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Bandcamp employees accuse CEO and Epic Games of union busting

Game Developer

As Bandcamp employees are attempting to have their union recognized by the NLRB, they're also shining a light on alleged actions to stop the union by its CEO and parent company.

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The best free game making tools

Game Developer

From small and specialized game engines like Bitsy and Ren'Py to the free versions of bigger tools like Unity and Unreal, here are a few of the best tools with the lowest barrier to entry.

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Sega of America employees announce multi-department union

Game Developer

The Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS) is both the Sonic the Hedgehog developer's first-ever union, and also the United States' first game developer union to cover multiple staff departments.

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Sam Barlow breaks down the 'pillars of interactivity' behind Immortality

Game Developer

Speaking at GDC 2023, Immortality co-creator Sam Barlow breaks down his storytelling pillars and reveals the acclaimed project owes its success, in part, to the existence of Pokemon Snap.

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CMA decries EU's Microsoft-Activision approval, stands by rejection

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The CMA thinks its fellow regulator made the wrong call in giving Microsoft permission to merge with Activision Blizzard, and reasserted its own decision to block it.

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Report: Embracer layoffs impact staff at MX vs ATV developer Rainbow Studios

Game Developer

Embracer refused to comment on the status of Rainbow Studios but said its restructuring program is designed to deliver "cost savings.

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CWA rescinds three Unfair Labor Practice charges against Activision Blizzard

Game Developer

The labor union has withdrawn some Unfair Labor Practice charges against the Call of Duty publisher, but feels Kotick is "undermining this productive process.

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How Xbox develops games with, not just for, the disabled community

Game Developer

Looking to incorporate accessibility features but don't know where to begin? Here are a few tips from Microsoft senior Gaming Accessibility Program manager Brannon Zahand.

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Unity exec admits company wasn't "listening enough" to devs over Runtime Fee

Game Developer

Unity Create president Marc Whitten admitted that a year after promising to "talk more" with developers, the company still hadn't done enough listening.

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China's game art industry reportedly decimated by growing AI use

Game Developer

The widespread use of AI art is reportedly diminishing the work of game artists in China, who worry about how it'll be used in other departments of game development.

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Obituary: Delphine Software founder Paul de Senneville died at age 89

Game Developer

In his brief time with video games, de Senneville formed two game development studios and partnered with publishers such as Interlay and Electronic Arts.

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After two years, Paradox refunds Vampire Bloodlines 2 pre-orders

Game Developer

Paradox confirmed Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 is still in development, and is issuing full refunds for those who pre-ordered it before its delay.

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Obituary: Bob Smith, Atari 2600 programmer, has passed away

Game Developer

Smith was a programmer at Atari during the 1980s and worked on a number of titles such as Star Wars: The Arcade Game and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.

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Design lessons from the procedural puzzle pieces of Remnant II

Game Developer

Remnant II creative director David Adams discusses the path to making games as replayable as possible through procedural generation.

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Employees at Epic-owned music platform Bandcamp are unionizing

Game Developer

Comprised of all of Bandcamp staff across the US, Bandcamp United has called on its leadership and parent company Epic Games to willingly recognize that it exists.

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ESA expects publishers to fix preservation problem

Game Developer

The Entertainment Software Association says it's committed to defending current copyright practices—which makes game preservation all the more difficult.