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Video: Animating Rain World and its many squishy, stretchy creatures
Video: Animating Rain World and its many squishy, stretchy creatures
At GDC 2016, Rain World animators Joar Jakobsson and James Therrien hop onstage to present a detailed breakdown the animation process behind the visually arresting indie game.
July 17, 2017
Video Game Deep Cuts: The 4D Cyberpunk Fire
Video Game Deep Cuts: The 4D Cyberpunk Fire
This week's highlights include the Cyberpunk RPG's original author, 4D Toys' brain-bending surreality, Fire Pro Wrestling's resurgence, and lots more.
July 17, 2017
Video game music systems at GDC 2017: pros and cons for composers
Video game music systems at GDC 2017: pros and cons for composers
In the GDC 2017 audio track, several interactive music systems were presented. In part 2 of her 3 article series, video game composer Winifred Phillips discusses the pros & cons of these systems, while also sharing case studies from her own projects.
July 17, 2017
What we learned improvising a live game soundtrack
What we learned improvising a live game soundtrack
We did a couple of live stage performances where we improvised a new soundtrack to someone playing Journey and Ori And The Blind Forest. This post shares a video compilation of the performance and explains our approach and what did and didn't work.
July 17, 2017
Big in the West: Swery, Igarashi, and others discuss the Japanese game industry
Big in the West: Swery, Igarashi, and others discuss the Japanese game industry
In a rare roundtable, Swery, Koji Igarashi, 4gamer journalist Masatoshi Tokuoka, and Necrosoft Games' Brandon Sheffield discuss the future of the japanese game industry.
July 17, 2017
You can buy password stealing malware ‘Ovidiy Stealer’ for $7
You can buy password stealing malware ‘Ovidiy Stealer’ for $7
Researchers at Proofpoint recently discovered a mass-marketed malware called Ovidiy stealer whose main purpose is to steal passwords from victims. It is the
July 15, 2017
Chat with the designers of the X-Wing Miniatures game at 3PM EDT
Chat with the designers of the X-Wing Miniatures game at 3PM EDT
We're chatting about the design and development of Fantasy Flight's X-Wing Miniatures game today at 3PM EDT.
July 14, 2017
Game design tips from the developers of X-Wing Miniatures
Game design tips from the developers of X-Wing Miniatures
Watch our conversation with the developers of X-Wing Miniatures if you want some exceptionally insightful design tips.
July 14, 2017
Marc ten Bosch created an extradimensional game engine for 4D Toys
Marc ten Bosch created an extradimensional game engine for 4D Toys
Marc ten Bosch's says his new mobile title as an "interactive toy." It gives us a taste of the sort of four-dimensional objects he's been playing around with for his long-awaited game_Miegakure_.
July 14, 2017
Classic Postmortem: BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Classic Postmortem: BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Creating a new type of combat system inside a 60-hour RPG was a daunting task. Yet that's exactly what BioWare did with its classic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, released 14 years ago today.
July 14, 2017
Video: 6 ways of using AI in procedural content generation for games
Video: 6 ways of using AI in procedural content generation for games
at GDC 2017, devs Tyler Coleman, Zach Aikman, Tanya Short, Tarn Adams, Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris, and Luiz Krue share their own tricks for leveraging the power of AI in procedural generation for games.
July 14, 2017
Autodesk axes Scaleform, Beast, HumanIK, and Navigation game dev software
Autodesk axes Scaleform, Beast, HumanIK, and Navigation game dev software
The company has removed its suite of game middleware products from its digital shelves and has detailed how it will wind support for each affected offering.
July 14, 2017