Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

Every year, Pride celebrates equality and human rights, along with being yourself in a world that still likes to see people in molds. While the topics and news surrounding the issues of equality and human rights remain distressing even today, there is still some space for celebrating past accomplishments, love, and the work being done worldwide. Year after year, more and more game companies have started to participate in Pride celebrations.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

Update (August 03 2022): This major update will be released as an Open Beta (accessible & opt-in) for Star Nomad 2 on Google Play store due to issues with changes to the Android SDK & API. Please do not opt-in and install the 2.22.07 update if you want to keep current save data or you are still playing current Pilots. More info here: The problem with making games for Mobiles.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

Session-based multiplayer games are a popular form of online game, as they provide players with a quick, engaging experience that they can jump into at any time. However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. You need game server hosting for a stable and consistent gameplay experience.

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Muha Games

JULY 29, 2022

Busy beta times continued. So, we’re at the end of July now, and I am sure you’re all wondering how things are progressing, right? Well, things are going well. We are producing regular patches/updates (8 big ones so far) to catch bugs as well as modify features due to feedback… Continue reading.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

I tend to think that “genres” in videogames are believed in, or thought to be real in a way that is massively over-stated. Games can manifest in a billion different ways that are still yet untried, and the genres that we know – things like FPS, Roguelite, RPG, etc – are really best thought of as marketing terms: not something that really describes what the game is in a useful way, but rather a loose categorization system that helps publishers signal to people, “if y

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The upcoming Godot 3.5 is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. We are now at the Release Candidate stage, finalizing everything so that we can release 3.5-stable for all users. At this stage it's really close to stable, we just had a few more regression fixes merged since the previous build that warrant another build for testing: Android: Address remaining s

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AWS Games

JULY 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to announce the launch of Community Health on AWS , a set of solutions designed to help AWS for Games customers build and grow safe, inclusive, and fun online communities. Initial Community Health on AWS solutions include Spectrum Guardian for Games , a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from AWS Partner Spectrum Labs that runs on AWS; reference architecture for building or modifying content moderation pipelines on AWS; and AWS for Games Cohort

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Filmustage

JULY 28, 2022

Roger Deakins in his 70s was nominated for "Oscar" 15 times out of which he triumphed only twice - for "Blade Runner 2049" and "1917". According to the cinematographer himself, every director with whom he has ever worked is different, they create unique screen worlds which don't always have to conform to the rules of reality, to be naturalistic. The key is to create a seamless experience for the audience to believe in.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

We're determined to deliver a stable release of Godot 4.0 as soon as possible. To achieve this, we need to shift the focus from implementing new and exciting features towards stabilizing the existing functionality and fixing bugs. The road to Beta 1. With that in mind, effective August 3rd we're entering a feature freeze stage, and no changes to the roadmap for Godot 4.0 will be expected.

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AWS Games

JULY 29, 2022

Game developers increasingly require cloud technologies to support their games and provide the best experience to their players. Leveraging cloud services provided by AWS can help with important game components such as managing and deploying game servers, running analytics on various game metrics, and utilizing AI/ML to detect player health and retention.

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Nvidia

JULY 26, 2022

Swap groups and swap barriers are well-known methods to synchronize buffer swaps between different windows on the same system and on distributed systems, Swap groups and swap barriers are well-known methods to synchronize buffer swaps between different windows on the same system and on distributed systems, respectively. Initially introduced for OpenGL, they were later extended through public NvAPI interfaces and supported in DirectX 9 through 12.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 26, 2022

Over the past few years, we have seen Metaverse, NFT (non-fungible tokens), and DeFi (Decentralized Finance) popping up everywhere, and gaining traction. NFT, Metaverse, and DeFi come with various use cases in the real world, so naturally, you must be curious about their applications. All three entities have unique benefits while sharing and contributing to each other’s growth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

We just announced that we'll enter feature freeze next week to focus on stabilizing the existing functionality in Godot 4.0 and prepare the first beta release. But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. So here we go with 4.0 alpha 13 ! Update 2022-07-29 @ 10:30 UTC: A regression was found in the original build that prevented exporting projects to Windows and Linux with official templates.

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Moonmana

JULY 26, 2022

Pirates of Everseas game porting from Windows to MacOS case study. Porting video games is one of the most valuable components of game development that helps to widen the borders due to flexibility and cross-platform functionality. From web to mobile, from console to PC, from console to mobile – porting ensures higher attraction of players and speeds up the ROI.

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Filmustage

JULY 26, 2022

Line producers represent an extremely important, but hidden from the view area of activity in filmmaking. Viewers often pay attention to such roles and faces of the film like actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, as well as screenwriters, they become heroes of the press and their names are much more discussed by gossip. Therefore, it is not surprising at all that most of the key positions of cinematography turn into hidden figures, who nevertheless play a key role in the success of a p

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OPM Jobs

JULY 25, 2022

OPM are finally heading back to Germany to attend gamescom 2022! Kim, Hannah and Jon will be arriving in Cologne on Tuesday 23rd and will be there until Friday 26th, so if you want to put a face to a name or fancy a chat about anything recruitment, send an email to hello@opmjobs.com and we’ll be happy to book something in. If you’ve got a busy schedule and would prefer to come and find us, we’ll be at our table on the Ukie UK stand – Business Hall: 3.2, Stand No: D20g – F39g.

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Click Nothing

JULY 26, 2022

Years ago, I used to do a lot of tabletop RPG gaming. I played almost every weekend for probably about 15 years from the time I joined my first real D&D group as part of a high school club in.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Video games industry is going big and bigger. How do we see it in 2022 and what’s at play for developers? What are the fresh trends in the gaming industry? Read more in this blog article. The last few years have been motivating the game development field quite actively. Game developers, designers, and artists had to be quite inventive and creative to move it forward.

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Cloudy Heaven Games

JULY 23, 2022

In the last couple of posts, we discussed arrays and lists, both sequential collections of related items. In this post, we will discuss sets. A set is an unordered collection of objects, that cannot contain … Continue reading → The post Data Structures in RPGs: Sets appeared first on Cloudy Heaven Games.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

[stextbox id="info"]This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.[/stextbox] This post gathers best practices based on our experiences. This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games. The practical tips are organized into short, actionable items for developers working on ray tracing today.

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Rampant Games

JULY 27, 2022

My newest book released this week: Queen of Monsters , the first in a new series called The Vanished. Book 2 should be out before the end of the year. Queen of Monsters asks: What if some unexplained disappearances in our world–including some of the famous ones, like Amelia Earhart, Harold Holt, etc.–were because they were transported to another world?

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