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That Magic Character Only French Translators Use
Automatic line-wrapping in games is the source of many localization bugs that can only be seen by the LQA team. French uses a special character that will solve a lot of the bugs reported by LQA and in this article, we explain how to make good use of it.
Oct. 13, 2017
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The Killer Groove: The Shadow AI of Killer Instinct
Season 2 of the 2013 reboot of Killer Instinct brought with it the Shadow AI system: a method of replicating human performance in-game to control AI opponents. We take a look at how it works.
Oct. 13, 2017
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Video Game Tutorials: How Do They Teach?
The following is a condensed form of my master’s project, investigating early game levels/tutorials in video games to identify how to teach effectively. Analyzing participant response data to understand what affects player learning experiences.
Oct. 13, 2017
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Design Pillars – The Core of Your Game
I discuss how important it is for you as a developer to find the core of your game. To do this you can use the pillars technique.
Oct. 12, 2017
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The Definition of [Artificial] Insanity: The Systemic AI of Far Cry
Far Cry is a AAA video game franchise built on the principles of systemic gameplay and behaviour. We take a look at how this is managed by AI systems in both Far Cry 3 and 4.
Oct. 12, 2017
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Where VR's Going: Thoughts on OC4 Hardware Announcements
At OC4, Oculus announced two standalone headsets in the works: Oculus Go and the Santa Cruz prototype. What does this mean for VR devs?
Oct. 12, 2017
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Demystifying earned media: how does indie game PR really work?
Public relations can seem like a strange and arcane art sometimes. So how do the most successful indie games build momentum and hype via public relations? Game If You Are director Lewis Denby gives an in-depth walkthrough of the process.
Oct. 11, 2017
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Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes: Part 3 – Scaling Up Nodes
Third part of a series on managing and scaling Dedicated Game Servers with open source projects Kubernetes and Docker. In this post we look at using game server CPU information to increase the nodes in our Kubernetes cluster as our player base increases.
Oct. 11, 2017
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Translating a Game 1/3 : The Process
Get a high level overview of what it takes to get your game translated in part 1 of 3 with increasing levels of detail. Part 1 is about planning and preparing for the localization process and its phases.
Oct. 11, 2017
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Open-World RPGs and the Hinterlands Problem
An analysis of common pitfalls in contemporary open-world RPGs that lead to narrative inconsistency and player dissatisfaction.
Oct. 10, 2017
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[AI Design]: Why characters in Ebony Spire: Heresy behave the way they do
How I designed the AI in my dungeon crawler. The article looks at a way to implement two different approaches: a need driven system and a ratio based decision making system!
Oct. 10, 2017
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Day 23 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a Spawning System for Enemies in Unity
Today on day 23 we’re going to learn how to spawn enemy waves. Currently, the game isn’t challenging, we only have one enemy! We’re going to fix this by spawning waves of enemies to defeat.
Oct. 10, 2017