A couple of years ago, we applied for an SBIR grant to the US Department of Education. Our explicit goal was to create a sequel to Alphabear that would actually be educational, but also competitive in the crowded mobile marketplace.
Modelling interiors behind every window in a city often takes too much performance, so some games use "interior mapping", a shader trick to render geometry that isn't actually there, but still achieves sharp, perspectively correct rooms.
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This week's highlights include analysis of adventure title Unavowed, a cover story on Fortnite streamer Ninja, & detailed impressions of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2.
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
A detailed account of hunting down two bugs in The Machinery alpha.
China is the largest games market in the world but has been hit by a temporary game approval freeze that has limited the number of new games being released this year. New regulations may also be introduced that could lead to fewer games being approved.
It's no secret that the field of video game design is full of copycats. In this article I look at one particular copycat - Temtem, a kickstarter game based on Pokemon. I look at how close two games can get, and if the changes to stand out are worth it.
Board gaming is sometimes considered to be a luxury hobby. Given that the costs need not necessarily be excessively high, what does that even mean? We discuss in this post.
When you make a fast paced mobile game which happens to be multiplayer with unity and uNet. There are pitfalls which you should avoid and they might not be as clear if you are not aware of them. I'm trying to describe them here.
Unless the game industry changes its labor practices, I have no intention of ever entering the game industry, and I believe that many other people will reach the same conclusion, leading to a labor crisis.
Our conscious mind has around one 1 second delay. But in the meantime, our subconscious is working with a reaction time at 0.25 seconds. It also been shown that our subconscious even can perceive things that only appears on a time frame as small as 0.02.
The final part of this Postmortem of Brass Tactics examines the design of the economy of this RTS game in VR. This involved a fair amount of experimentation with interactions over the early phases of development.
