GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 18, 2023

Crunch, working conditions, and mental health have been topics of frequent discussion in the games industry for years. At last month's Game Developers Conference, a panel of personal and professional experts discussed the subject at length. Read more

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Game Industry News

MARCH 5, 2024

Hey all, I’m back with an important topic for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. Given how many titles ship now with game breaking bugs, that seems to be a really poor way of handling the concerns of players. That’s it for this Video Game Tuesday! It’s all about forums. Why are forums going away?: So, what now?:

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2023

Eray Ağaçdoğrayan , founder of Gyroscoping Games , is Turkish himself. Eray Ağaçdoğrayan , founder of Gyroscoping Games , is Turkish himself. Refugees have been a main topic of news, talk shows and social media for about a decade”, he says. Some cold hard facts about refugees. At least 89.3 At least 89.3 million people.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 11, 2024

Without further ado, let's dive into the Golden Twig Awards results, recognizing both the positive and challenging aspects of the gaming industry in 2023 – from innovation and creativity to acknowledging difficulties faced. Listen to our Gaming Awards Show. Case in point: our major misfire of the year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Monetisation isn’t really a topic that gets most gamers’ blood pumping – at least not in a good way – but it’s the lifeblood of the games industry itself, and in the past few years, it’s been at something of an impasse. Read more.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 30, 2020

Board game development is incredibly complex. To create a board game from start to finish , think of everything you have to do: Come up with a board game idea and design a game around it. Play-test the game until it feels right. Create digital print files of your game. Find artists.

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Real Programming

APRIL 15, 2024

STEM subjects are so popular now and have been for years because parents understand that we live in a digital world. Parents want their kids to use technology in healthy, productive ways, and peeking behind the curtains to see how it really works helps them engage more beneficially with video games, apps, and websites.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

Video games have the ability to transport users to another place and time. The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. We are at that age where we can feel nostalgic and look back to our growing-up years. ” “In 2015 we did a game jam at Mojiken Studio.

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DameDev.tv

JUNE 13, 2023

In college, before I took a test, I would read the assigned chapters, and I would make a list of all of the main topics covered in those chapters. In college, before I took a test, I would read the assigned chapters, and I would make a list of all of the main topics covered in those chapters. Assessing Your Knowledge! Questions?!

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Game Industry News

MAY 2, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a question for readers for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. I agree that it’s good to get console upgrades semi-frequently every 6 years or so to keep up with the latest PC advancements, but I was honestly happy with how long the last generation of consoles lasted. What about them?:

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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. The Facts Supercell continued to decline for a third year in a row. Supercell hasn’t released new games since 2018. Their live games portfolio is not growing.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Jamie Madigan Jamie Madigan is the host of popular podcast The Psychology of Video Games , and the author of multiple books that look into why people play games. The book also asks if games can make you smarter. Why are games designed the way they are? GameDaily: Why do we play games?

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Game Industry News

JUNE 27, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a look at a topic I felt I should cover for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about some of the fastest made video games that were actually hits. But what about those games that took very little time to make, but were still amazing? That’s it for this week’s Video Game Tuesday.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are excited to announce that the Godot Engine will attend the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC), on March 20-24. The Game Developer Conference is a yearly event in San Francisco, California. It is the world's largest professional game industry event, with over 26,000 attendees. You might even get some free swag ;).

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Posting this chart every year only gets more and more fun! Every once in a while, I come up with a clump of topics too small for their own posts. Since almost 14000 new games were released on Steam last year (Really!) It's a biannual event where indie developers can make demos of their games available for a week.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

New year, new insights into the most innovative segment of the mobile gaming market: hyper-casual games! The much awaited “Hyper-Casual Benchmark Report” for Q4 2022 is here to provide you with up-to-date data on key performance indicators, user behavior, and trends in the hyper-casual gaming industry. Let us know!

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

The Invincible is the debut game of Starward Industries , a new studio based in Kraków, Poland. For the last couple of years the team has been working hard to transform the gripping story from the novel with the same name by Polish sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem, into a thrilling adventure game. “We

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Game Global

APRIL 14, 2022

After two years of successful online events, Game Global is currently building the program for its next in-person summit. Game Global events are open to game developers, publishers, service providers, and any other stakeholders related to the video game industry. Game Global does not sell speaking slots.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2020

2021 is quickly approaching and in the Godot community we are starting to prepare for next year's GodotCon! As you might know, each year we attend FOSDEM, the major Free and Open Source event in Europe, and we use the opportunity to organise our own small conference as a fringe event: GodotCon! So, what's the plan?

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 16, 2022

This year, Kim, Daniel, Darren, Hannah, Jackie and Jordan will be in attendance, so look for them in the exhibition hall or at the bar. The conference programme will reflect what you’ve told them are the hot topics for game makers in 2022 – like monetisation, funding, discoverabilty, ethical working practices and the Metaverse.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

After a couple of years of online-only events, we are bringing back some in-person Godot events. As we usually work together online and discuss via Rocket.Chat or GitHub, we use opportunities like Godot Sprint to finally talk together IRL, which lets us discuss a number of technical topics and reach consensus much faster.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 27, 2023

Video games have long been a popular form of entertainment, but their impact on mental health has been a topic of debate. In recent years, video games have been increasingly recognised as a tool for relaxation, escapism, and emotional processing.

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Game Industry News

MAY 30, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with an interesting topic for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about AI Generated Voices in Games. A couple months ago the world lost one of its more prolific actors, and one who was a major voice actor for gaming as well. So how does AI come into this?:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2021

At the beginning of this year we held a Godot Conference completely online for the first time. We are looking forward to see any topic that relates to Godot in some form. You could showcase your project, talk about some nifty tools that you have developed, detail your process for game development with Godot and so on.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Moreover, we are now in the year 2024, which is also the year of Deep Space Nine’s infamous Bell Riots , which take place in canon on September 1, 2024, and though I’m well aware the riots are fictional events, the episode “ Past Tense ” offers us a look into an America divided by socioeconomic class.

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Game Industry News

JULY 25, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a look at a topic I felt I should cover for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about delayed video games that were still hits. Well as I mentioned in a previous Video Game Tuesday, some games get delayed a ridiculously long time and generally they don’t do well like Duke Nukem Forever.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are excited to announce that the Godot Engine will attend the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC), on March 20-24. The Game Developer Conference is a yearly event in San Francisco, California. It is the world’s largest professional game industry event, with over 26,000 attendees. You might even get some free swag ;).

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. After all, Supercell is our beacon of hope.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

When you’ve made an excellent 3D game, you definitely want it to run on more devices, not just high-end ones, as this would mean losing many users. In this article, I will share the methods I’ve learned from over a decade of 3D game development to make a game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The end of the year is usually a time for summaries and making big, exciting plans. It’s been a good year for us, for many reasons. We look forward to more great people joining us in the coming year. We look forward to more great people joining us in the coming year. New VR game is coming! 2022 is coming!

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Nvidia

APRIL 9, 2021

This year, Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event (April 20-21), starting at 8am PDT, will offer a wide range of can’t-miss sessions for game developers, in. Until now, this has not been possible in video games. Register to Game Stack Live today here. We hope you’ll join us!

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 28, 2023

Imagine that I’m working on a game that has committed to four playable races - dark elf, hot elf, keebler elf, and santa elf. hers elf) for the lifespan of the game, because I would need additional bits to represent the fifth race. hers elf) for the lifespan of the game, because I would need additional bits to represent the fifth race.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Check out our top sessions below for those working in the gaming industry: Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Learn how ray tracing was used to create the visuals in the game, and how the developers at CD Projekt RED used extensive ray tracing techniques to bring the bustling Night City to life. It is a guide for the first day in country.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 20, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. ” And, wow, did you all deliver!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 23, 2019

We organize two Godot community events in the week leading to the Game Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznań, Poland: a new Godot Sprint for engine contributors on October 14 & 15, 2019 and a GodotCon for all users on October 16 & 17, 2019. Game Industry Conference (GIC) on Oct 17-20, 2019. Register on this form.

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Real Programming

JULY 12, 2023

The math in Sokol’s course is stuff students may encounter in second-year university, depending on their program. He likes to break concepts into mini games he has developed, so complex mathematical ideas are fun and easy to understand. We have a special entry this month in our ongoing teacher profile series.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, game designer Sande Chen relates important lessons learned from the design of that game company's games, Journey and Sky. I had the opportunity to attend the 2022 GamesBeat Summit virtually in April and attended Jenova Chen's interview and segment, Fostering Positive Human Connections Through Games.

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