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The sudden death of Mixer underlines how critical a far-reaching streaming platform is to Microsoft's cloud gaming ambitions
Microsoft is sunsetting its streaming platform Mixer and transitioning its streamers and audience to Facebook Gaming as part of a new partnership. Mixer was primarily a springboard for xCloud, and this focus contributed to its dismantling.
June 29, 2020
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What are Steam Points? What were Summer Festival's lessons? 2
What the heck is this new Steam Points system? How did devs fare in the Steam Summer Games Festival with their pre-release demos? All this info, and more, within.
June 26, 2020
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Video Game Deep Cuts: SpongeBob's Death Come True 2
Death Come True, Hylics 2, and the SpongeBob game remake are just a few of the things featured in this week's new Video Game Deep Cuts link round-up.
June 26, 2020
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Using RGB highlights to enhance the player experience
In this article we discuss our experiences with enabling custon RGB highlishts in our games, X-Morph: Defense and The Riftbreaker, as well as the design decisions that we made after our first attempts at using them.
June 25, 2020
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Practical Tips: Maximizing Your Unity Game's Performance [Part-1]
Practical tips on increasing game performance in Unity - Part 1
June 24, 2020
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Discoverability by Design: rethinking how video games get noticed.
The best way around a shouting match to promote your game? Avoid it altogether. Rather, embrace that game design is part of the marketing equation and embed discoverability directly into the game itself.
June 24, 2020
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Are YOU prioritizing your Steam tags? 2
Thought it was worth putting out a new piece on something that’s been getting a lot of traction over the past few days - Steam’s subgenre/attribute tag system, and how you may be ‘messing it up’!
June 23, 2020
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How to Analyze the Performance Cost of Your Unity Shaders
In this post, you will learn how to analyze your unity shader complexity with numbers so you finally can: - Stop being fragment-bound in your unity game performance and... - Compare the GPU complexity between two shaders
June 23, 2020
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Video Game Deep Cuts: Summer In Mara's Shipbreaker Wildfire 2
The latest Video Game Deep Cuts (new games/best links of the week!) features Summer In Mara, Beyond Blue, and... 3D graphics card box art?
June 21, 2020
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The Last Days of Control
Fine-tuning Remedy’s Award-Winning Game Design In The Playtest Lab
June 18, 2020
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Discoverability, Steam's Summer Festival & 'Not-E3' Showcases 2
Another round-up of all the good things happening in the game discoverability space - from Steam Summer Festival to 'not-E3' showcases.
June 18, 2020
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Game Composers and the Importance of Themes: The Hook in Game Music (Pt. 1)
The first installment of a five-part article series based on game composer Winifred Phillips' presentation during the GDC 2020 online conference. Session was entitled "From Assassin's Creed to The Dark Eye: The Importance of Themes."
June 17, 2020