Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2025

Written by our friends at InvestGame. Consider following them for more insightful articles like this one! 2024 was a year of recovery and strategic recalibration for the gaming industry. After years of pandemic-related challenges and shifting market dynamics, the sector is gradually finding its footing. As demand for gaming fell post-COVID, many public companies struggled to demonstrate positive organic revenue growth (i.e. growth excluding revenue from recently acquired companies), often missin

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Developers do not in fact welcome our new AI overlords.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2025

Joanna Keler is a freelance Marketing Manager who worked on titles like This War of Mine and Frostpunk by 11 bit Studios and Best Month Ever by Klabater. During her talk at IndieGameBusiness Sessions she talked about incorporating social media as a vital marketing tool. According to Keler its important to set goals for yourself. There are various ways to make sure social media plays a vital role in your overall marketing plan.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 22, 2025

GameFromScratch.com SDL 3 Released SDL, or the Simple DirectMedia Layer is one of the most important open-source game development frameworks and they just released SDL 3. Well technically it’s SDL 3.2.0, but it is the first production ready version of the SDL 3 branch. Key features of SDL 3 include: If you are migrating […] The post SDL 3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 21, 2025

Up until now, we held all of our annual GodotCon events in Europe, but after the request of many of you and thanks to help from Boston Game Dev and the Boston Godot Users Group , we are finally able to bring the event to the US for the first time. Information Dates 5th, 6th, 7th of May Time 8AM - 6PM Location Boston, Massachusetts Venue Microsoft NERD. 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States Call for speakers and sponsors If you would like to be a part of the conference by giving a

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Game Developer

JANUARY 21, 2025

The publisher said a lack of 32-bit support on Windows is the final nail in the coffin.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

Jdrzej Napiecek was not in a good place. 25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. To be honest, he just felt so useless. He desperately needed change, something to reinvent himself. In 2014 he started hearing stories of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean. It was horrendous and he felt the drive to get involved.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

This blog is co-written by Sean Winters, Senior Platform Architect, Miro. Creation of mood boards can feel overly complex or take a lot of time to create and iterate on. Well show how you can integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, image generation models, directly in a Miro board using Amazon Bedrock APIs, enabling better iteration and collaboration.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2025

The team at Cooldown are looking to release games that require less dedication than live-service and multiplayer titles.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 20, 2025

7thSage again. This time we’ll be creating some more UI elements. We’ve been working with stats for a few lessons now, and its time we created something to show at least some of them. We’ll create a pair of panels to show the character’s name, level, HP and MP values. We’ll be mostly using the primary panel for now. The secondary panel we’ll use later for the target of an action.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 23, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Godot Script IDE Add-On Today we are looking at a free and open-source add-on for the Godot game engine called Script-IDE. In a nutshell this plugin makes the GDScript coding experience in the Godot editor a much more pleasant experience by adding several editing experiences you except to find in a tool like Visual […] The post Godot Script IDE Add-On appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

EA Origin will shut down on April 17, 2025, as a result of Microsoft no longer supporting 32-bit software.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2025

After over five years of development, Extremely OK pulled the plug on Earthblade, in part because of Celeste's legacy.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2025

The seniority of a position in general (not just in the gaming industry) is the amount of responsibility you can shoulder. Generally speaking, the more senior you are, the more of the development process youveinternalized and already know about in order to make sure that everything proceeds smoothly. Junior developers can do smaller-scale tasks with supervision and hand-holding.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 21, 2025

GameFromScratch.com The Complete Concept Art Training Bundle by Learn Squared There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically game artists, the Complete Concept Art Training Bundle by Learned Squared. The bundle actually contains courses on a variety of subjects beyond concept art including world building, character and outfit design, hard surface modelling and more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2025

The 14th annual New York Game Awards took place last night, with Astro Bot taking home Game of the Year.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2025

The new additions will be available on Android worldwide and iOS across the European Union.

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Cocos

JANUARY 20, 2025

In the browser, I executed the following code to delete a node. this.node.destroy(); Then the message The asset has been destroyed! appears in the console. Every time I delete a node, I get 3 or 4 of these messages. I created a project that only does this.node.destroy(); in each of Cocos 3.8.2 and 3.8.3, but it still happens. Also, the description in the documentation that the node does not delete itself, but rather deletes itself from other nodes, did not work.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 22, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Unity Quick Start Bundle – $300 in Assets for $1 There is a new bundle over on the Unity asset store – The Unity Quick Start Bundle. This bundle contains $300 worth of Unity assets for just a single $1. The bundle ends on Monday, January 27th! Contents of the bundle include: 2D Pixel Unit Maker – SPUM Cartoon GUI […] The post Unity Quick Start Bundle – $300 in Assets for $1 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten developers were laid off in 2024. Overall, 41% of developers were impacted by layoffs last year compared to 35% in 2023.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2025

The mobile developer has been sold to Miniclip for $1.2 billion.

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Cocos

JANUARY 20, 2025

In the browser, I executed the following code to delete a node. this.node.destroy(); Then the message The asset has been destroyed! appears in the console. Every time I delete a node, I get 3 or 4 of these messages. I created a project that only does this.node.destroy(); in each of Cocos 3.8.2 and 3.8.3, but it still happens. Also, the description in the documentation that the node does not delete itself, but rather deletes itself from other nodes, did not work.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

Yes, most games that dont pass muster get cancelled, and publishers cancel them as early as they can. This is primarily because development costs only grow as the project progresses. At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2025

Savvy Games Group has appointed Nika Nour as SVP and head of international business development.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 21, 2025

It looks like Balatro's various awards and wins sparked plenty of interest, particularly from the Game Awards crowd.

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Cocos

JANUARY 20, 2025

In the browser, I executed the following code to delete a node. this.node.destroy(); Then the message The asset has been destroyed! appears in the console. Every time I delete a node, I get 3 or 4 of these messages. I created a project that only does this.node.destroy(); in each of Cocos 3.8.2 and 3.8.3, but it still happens. Also, the description in the documentation that the node does not delete itself, but rather deletes itself from other nodes, did not work.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 24, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Elites Creator’s Superbundle on Humble Bundle The Elite Creator’s Superbundle on Humble Bundle is a collection of 4000+ high quality Unreal Engine assets from Meshingun Studio, SCANS Factory, Dekogon and Prophaus. The assets are redeemed on the Fab marketplace and are for Unreal Engine, although they can be exported to other tools and game engines using […] The post Elites Creator’s Superbundle on Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 23, 2025

Team17 Group has rebranded as Everplay Group, with its indie developer and publishing label Team17 Digital remaining unchanged.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2025

The three studios significantly beef up Virtuos' headcount as it focuses on becoming the 'biggest external game developer globally.

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Cocos

JANUARY 21, 2025

In the browser, I executed the following code to delete a node. this.node.destroy(); Then the message The asset has been destroyed! appears in the console. Every time I delete a node, I get 3 or 4 of these messages. I created a project that only does this.node.destroy(); in each of Cocos 3.8.2 and 3.8.3, but it still happens. Also, the description in the documentation that the node does not delete itself, but rather deletes itself from other nodes, did not work.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 23, 2025

From digging in the dirt to dazzling museums, weve had some incredible milestones this year! Let's take a look!

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2025

Insomniac Games founder and CEO, Ted Price, is retiring later this year.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pocketpair Publishing will provide funding opportunities, development assistance, and publishing support.

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Cocos

JANUARY 20, 2025

While developing a web client using Cocos Creator version 3.8.4, I discovered intermittent frame drops during execution. Although the reproduction video shows that the issue occurs at similar intervals, the actual occurrences are irregular. Additionally, the frame drops persist throughout the execution rather than happening only once. Is there a solution to this issue?

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Indie DB

JANUARY 22, 2025

Liminal Department - Demo now Available on Steam. First-person horror observation game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

The film commission for the Tampere city region in Finland has appointed its first head of games.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2025

The company will also need to prohibit the sale of loot boxes to some children to settle an FTC dispute.

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