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Jackbox Games unlocks new opportunities with Amazon GameLift Streams

AWS Games

Jackbox Games is a Chicago-based game studio best known for its lineup of popular party-game hits such as Quiplash , Fibbage , Drawful , Trivia Murder Party , and more. With 50 games and counting in its catalog, Jackbox Games offers something for everyonewhether its a drawing game, a trivia game, a hidden identity game, or beyond. Jackbox Games north star is accessible gaming, which means meeting customers where they are.

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How Riot Games is preparing for the next generation of players

Game Developer

Riot Games co-founder and chief product officer Marc Merrill says social design will factor into the future of Riot Gamesjust maybe not in the way you think.

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Godot XR update - February 2025

Mircosoft Game Dev

Announcing the Meta Toolkit extension We are pleased to announce the release of the Godot Meta Toolkit , a GDExtension plugin that exposes Metas Platform SDK and provides other tools to simplify and accelerate XR development on Metas platform. The project is Open Source (MIT license) and maintained by W4 Games with sponsorship from Meta. Contributions from the community are welcome!

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori reaches Kickstarter goal in just 19 hours

PreMortem.Games

The upcoming Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori marks a significant departure from the familiar settings of this long-running horse-riding series. Traditionally set in modern-day Germany, the new game transports players to 13th century Mongolia. Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.The recent Kickstarter campaign for the game reached its 60.000 goal in just 19 hours!

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Pantaloon launches micro-indie publishing label to champion 'small games with big hooks'

Game Developer

'Part of Pantaloons mission as an indie label is to restorewhat we believe to bethe broken power balance in the indie publishing world.

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JavaScript/TypeScript Game Engines in 2025

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com JavaScript/TypeScript Game Engines in 2025 Today we have compiled a list of the best JavaScript (and TypeScript) game engines and game frameworks (and a few miscellaneous game development options) for game development in 2025. This is the third in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages.

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Indie dev Welevel raises $5.7M in seed funding round

Game Developer

The studio will put its new funding money toward its unannounced sandbox game and its set of AI tools for game development.

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CCP hires former bank economist to 'legitimize' EVE Frontier's in-game economy

Game Developer

Economist Stefn rarinsson has been brought onto CCP to help EVE Frontier achieve its dreams of having a 'truly open financial system within a virtual world.

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POLYGON Best of Synty GameDev Assets #4 Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com POLYGON Best of Synty GameDev Assets #4 Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest for game developers, the POLYGON Best of Synty GameDev Assets #4 Humble Bundle. The bundle contains assets for both Unreal Engine and Unity (and raw forms, so usable in Godot, Flax, O3DE, etc) in a low polygon style. It is organized into The post POLYGON Best of Synty GameDev Assets #4 Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Exploring an unknown language in Ginger

Game Developer

"I hope the world can be united together, but language barriers are everywhere.

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The Gods of Innkeep

Indie DB

In this post we take a look at the gods of the RPG world of Innkeep.

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Jackbox can stream to PC and TVs with Amazon's new GameLift tech

Game Developer

Amazon is using Jackbox's collection of party games to tout the power of Gamelift's streaming capabilities.

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Hidden Variable sues Skullgirls publisher Autumn Games for $1.2m in unpaid payments

GamesIndustry.biz

Hidden Variable has announced that as of January 21, 2025, it was "no longer involved in the development on Skullgirls Mobile, 2nd Encore" due to a "dispute with Autumn Games.

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Frogger and Call of Duty 4 headline nominees for 2025's Video Game Hall of Fame

Game Developer

The Strong Museum's Hall of Fame candidates for 2025 include some familiar faces and fresh new pickings.

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Sony launches new beta program for PlayStation

GamesIndustry.biz

Sony has announced a new beta program for PlayStation players.

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Best mods for Ara: History Untold

Indie DB

A selection of the top mods for Ara: History Untold available in the in-game mod browser!

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Epic Games Store pulls free-to-play Dark and Darker as copyright dispute continues

GamesIndustry.biz

A year after it debuted on Epic Games Store in March 2024 , the free-to-play version of Dark and Darker has once again been delisted.

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A Guide to Choosing the Right QA and Testing Partner in 2025

Rocket Brush Studio

Poor software quality increases maintenance costs, security risks, customer dissatisfaction, and reputational damage. QASource helps businesses implement rigorous QA processes to prevent costly errors and deliver reliable, high-performing software.

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Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 leads BAFTA Game Awards 2025 nominations

GamesIndustry.biz

The 2025 BAFTA Game Awards nominations have been announced, with Ninja Theory's Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 picking up 11 nominations across multiple categories including Best British Game.

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Build APK cocos creator

Cocos

when building the apk using android studio flamingo 2022.2.1 then encounter this problem cocos creator 3.8.

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How individualism in the dead internet age challenges technocapitalism and 'the things we lost along the way.'

Game Developer

"Games are a type of art that is deeply meaningful in the digital landscape. I think, even if there is negative friction, that's where artists need to be.

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Build APK cocos creator

Cocos

when building the apk using android studio flamingo 2022.2.1 then encounter this problem cocos creator 3.8.

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Build APK cocos creator

Cocos

when building the apk using android studio flamingo 2022.2.1 then encounter this problem cocos creator 3.8.

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Cocos creator 2.4.13 full screen portrait mode is upside down in mi browser

Cocos

Cocos creator 2.4.13 full screen portrait mode is upside down in mi browser This is happening in both mi browser in mi phone and mi browser installed on other android phone.

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Is there a way to add headings in the properties

Cocos

When you use @property is there a way to add a heading above it to say what those things will be about, like this:

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Cocos creator 2.4.13 full screen portrait mode is upside down in mi browser

Cocos

Cocos creator 2.4.13 full screen portrait mode is upside down in mi browser This is happening in both mi browser in mi phone and mi browser installed on other android phone. drive.google.com 20250306_171032.mp4 Google Drive file.

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My game wont export

Cocos

Did you extend build process by a build plugin, looks like theres a bug in extensions/build-plugin-template/source/hooks.ts line 24: if (pkgOptions.webTestOption) { //?? possible error console.

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My game wont export

Cocos

your log shows that you did use one, which is build-plugin-template, its a built-in cocos extension try deleting folder extensions/build-plugin-template, that will fix your problem

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Capturing screenshots game

Cocos

hey guys, Im working on exporting capturing-screenshots to web-based image links, but I havent really found a solution to this problem. I am using cocos creator version 3.8.2. thanks all !

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Is there a way to add headings in the properties

Cocos

<ui-section class="config" header="Base Property" expand> <!

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My game wont export

Cocos

When i export my game(windows, wed mobile and desktop etc.) it wont export and i just get this error: 06-03-2025 16:31:41 build task failed! TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading webTestOption) at C:UsersharryMemoryMadnessextensionsbuild-plugin-templatedisthooks.js:1:1448 at Generator.next () at C:UsersharryMemoryMadnessextensionsbuild-plugin-templatedisthooks.js:1:479 at new Promise () at C:UsersharryMemoryMadnessextensionsbuild-plugin-template.

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My game wont export

Cocos

When i export my game(windows, wed mobile and desktop etc.) it wont export and i just get this error: 06-03-2025 16:31:41 build task failed! TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading webTestOption) at C:UsersharryMemoryMadnessextensionsbuild-plugin-templatedisthooks.js:1:1448 at Generator.next () at C:UsersharryMemoryMadnessextensionsbuild-plugin-templatedisthooks.js:1:479 at new Promise () at C:UsersharryMemoryMadnessextensionsbuild-plugin-templatedisthooks.js:1:230 at C:Usersharr

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Capturing screenshots game

Cocos

Im not sure I understand your problem, do you want to capture a screenshot to save locally or send to a server? This code below will save locally director.once(Director.EVENT_AFTER_RENDER, () => { let camera = this.node.getComponentInChildren(Camera); let uiTransform = this.node.getComponent(UITransform) let width = uiTransform.width; let height = uiTransform.height; let texture = new RenderTexture(); texture.reset({width: width, height: height}); camera.targetTexture = texture; let canvas =

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