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Feb 28, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Chris Kerr |Joel Couture
TheIGF(Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium.Every year, Game Developer sits down with the finalists for the IGFahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools behind each entry. Game Developer and GDC are sibling organizations under Informa Tech.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Chris Kerr |Bryant Francis
Video game audio engineers face a litany of unique challenges when creating the soundscape of games like Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2. With so many detailed objects onscreen, sound can help signal what action players should be paying attention to. Plenty of sounds can be assembled from digital libraries, but foley artists and sound engineers often have one of the most creative tasks in the video game pipeline: building sound effects using the most ridiculous recordings possible.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Chris Kerr
NetEase has brought in veteran Call of Duty design director David Vonderhaar to lead new remote-first studio BulletFarm. The fledging studio will be headquartered in Los Angeles and has been tasked with developing a new triple-A franchise. Vonderhaar spent almost two decades at Treyarch and Activision Blizzard before leaving in August 2023. During his time at the studio, he worked on eight entries in the Call of Duty series and served as a leader within the design team.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Chris Kerr |Danielle Riendeau
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu for allegedly enabling piracy.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Chris Kerr |Danielle Riendeau
Keywords Studio has partnered with Charisma to help developers create more immersive, conversational NPCs using the company's AI-powered story engine. The Charisma website explains its story engine is powered by "bespoke machine learning" that uses natural language processing to match player dialogue to the best available routes in scripts, generating realistic conversations. "Create characters with backstories and personalities who can freestyle conversations with any dialogue.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Justin Carter |Beth Elderkin |Danielle Riendeau
Deck Nine Games, famous for crafting The Expanse: A TellTale Series, Life is Strange: True Colors, and other narrative-focused games, just announced it has laid off 20 percent of its staff. In a post on X, the studio said: "Like many others in the games industry right now, Deck Nine has been affected by the game industry's worsening market conditions. Today we made the difficult decision to lay off 20 percent of our staff. These people are amazing, talented, and awesome developers.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Justin Carter |Beth Elderkin |Bryant Francis
Spoilers from Alan Wake 2 to followOne of the many, many reasons that Remedy's Alan Wake 2 is an artistic triumph of a video game comes in the form of its mixed-media use of full-motion video.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Justin Carter |Beth Elderkin |Joel Couture
TheIGF(Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium.Every year, Game Developer sits down with the finalists for the IGFahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools behind each entry. Game Developer and GDC are sibling organizations under Informa Tech.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Beth Elderkin |Justin Carter
At a GlanceAn ex-producer for the studio also claims CIG is home to a "highly toxic" workplace culture. Staff at Star Citizen creator Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) have reportedly been laid off. These cuts, said ex-Turbulent producer Annie Bouffard, were "mass layoffs" excused as staff relocation. Per MassivelyOP, a number of alpha players on the space game learned several lead staff were no longer at the studio. These exits include live game director Todd Papy, who exited in January.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
gamedeveloper.com | Rod Humble |Beth Elderkin |Justin Carter
The 2024 Game Developers Conference features hundreds of sessions: It can be hard to choose! That's why we're excited to announce the brand-new GDC 2024 Walkthrough and Session Guides hub, which has everything you need to find talks and events for you at GDC. We received a ton of positive feedback for ourGDC 2023 Session Guides, which provided sessions and tips on navigating last year's game dev event. So this year, we gave them an upgrade.
