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Noodle07, do games w The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play

Christmas is coming op, you know what to gift me

kakes, do games w GameMaker swaps 'indie' and 'creator' subscriptions for one-time fee

I used to use GameMaker back in the Mark Overmars 5.0/6.0 days, but dropped it the moment it went to a paid model. This is great news, and I might honestly check it out again.

Nowadays I would generally prefer to use Godot - not a surprise, given where I’m posting. But GM was great for quick prototyping, if nothing else.

Jaysyn, do games w Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely"
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

I don't give a shit what happens to Unity.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Unity, as a business, as a stock investment, as a C-suite and board of directors, is rotting in its casket for all I care. I have committed to never buy game built in Unity whose development started after September this year.

This whole debacle wasn’t an engineering problem; it’s not the software development staff’s fault.

Mirrorgiraffe, do games w Dredge smashes internal expectations after topping 1 million sales

It has a few quirks but all in all its an amazing, genre busting pearl that had me longing to return to it until I finished it.

Boxtifer, do games w Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console

Don’t worry y’all. By cloud it’s just gonna be dynamic ads.

But for real, background animations and details could be streamed through another device having to render that something. Anything that doesn’t revolve around the gameplay itself.

datavoid, do games w Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console

Boo

PenguinTD, do gaming w Altagram publishes new crediting policy after Baldur's Gate 3 blunder

This is from the culture where don’t show you outsourced some of your work and claim that you did everything internally. There was a time where players think outsourced anything is bad but we have since gone way past that. Many big studio out-sourced their asset making/audio etc cause it’s simply too much work to do the up keeps if you don’t have a library of them from your past games.

As far as I know some Japanese company still operate this way and the out-source partner are contractually not allowed to disclose what they worked on. You would be considered lucky to even make the partner list with company name only. It’s a really bad standard and I hope we just get rid of that entirely. (If you are not aware, China’s asset outsource companies makes a lot of assets for AAA industry for a long time. )

Blxter, do games w Report: Embracer has made layoffs at Gearbox Publishing
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Honestly my biggest problem with embracer group is they don’t have a “real stake” in gaming or actual interest like Xbox does when they buy studios. (Please correct me if I’m wrong) but all they do is buy companies and then when they see profits go down they just lay people off.

mindbleach,

Which is better than EA somehow.

Blxter,
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This might be a really unpopular opinion but nowadays I feel like EA is doing and has done much better than previous. Aside from there sports games.

mindbleach,

Nowhere to go but up.

Cyberpacman, do games w Report: Embracer has made layoffs at Gearbox Publishing

Not great news for embracer as they just shut down their other games studio volition studio too . Layoffs at gearbox doesn’t seem good and they will probably have to sell it off next year

LongLive, do games w Predatory tactics in gaming are worse than you think
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KingThrillgore, do games w Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Epic and the Godot Foundation eating good rn

Hope everyone laid off gets back on their feet soon.

supersquirrel, do gaming w Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails

Is there something to be worried about here with the Unreal Engine being the only big business in town in terms of indie game development for 3d game engines?

I mean obviously yes, but how worried should we be of this becoming a bottleneck?

Windex007,

Godot has been making leaps and bounds. Obviously not close to UE, but if it maintains its rate of improvement, I can see it becoming a more and more common choice in the indie space over the next few years

supersquirrel,

Godot has a great name, I gotta give it that. I was going to make a Beckett joke but then I realized that was just what it was named after lol.

imsufferableninja,

is unreal engine not an option for indie devs?

supersquirrel,

Nah, it definitely is, in fact I have noticed a disconcerting number of indie games I REALLY like especially 3d games with physics engines are on the unreal engine.

I have always been a massive fan of at least the creative output of projects on the unreal engine, I don’t know much about the politics and details around how it is to actually create games on the unreal engine or anything though. I just don’t trust Epic honestly or whoever owns them now or rather I don’t trust the incentive structure… but yeah I wish the unreal engine success I am just asking how people see the state of similar engines in this moment.

GammaGames,

Support open source engines!

Kaboom, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users

So customers are now informed? And this is a bad thing?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

“This employee took screenshots of ABK wide discussions about the safety of our protected information (like name changes and visa statuses) and sent them to an an extremely racist, sexist, and transphobic individual on Twitter who has over a 100 thousand followers,” they added.

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck off; this is doxxing and mass harassment. If you want social change go ahead but do it peacefully.

BehindetheClouds,

^ This right here, what happened to their rallying call “Go Woke, Go Broke” ? I guess it’s not working, so they’re going to harass people instead.

No one will stop them from not buying something. But forcing people out of jobs via threats is another level of fucked up.

Kaboom,

What happened to Concord? And what happened to Marvel Rivals?

BehindetheClouds, (edited )

Like really? Concord went bust because of woke? It can’t be an overused genre and a bad game? It has to be “wokeism”?

Like, please think.

And ask for marvel rivals I think you’re confusing that with multiverse.

Edit: like I’m not even against a game that is just trad wives and big tits or whatever, it’s up to the customer if they want to buy that. And if they do there will be a market for it.

Edit 2: didn’t notice the poster deleted his comment, here it is:

“What happened to Concord? And what happened to Marvel Rivals?”

ocassionallyaduck,

There is. Plenty of giant titties on trad wives in the Steam category for porn games. Oddly that seems to overlap with this audience strongly…

DreamlandLividity,

Seems to me like names were censored in the released slack screenshots (except the CEO). Were there uncensored screenshots that I missed or that were deleted?

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

The Jan 20 tweet linked in the article is uncensored

DreamlandLividity,

Ah, right. Thanks.

RageAgainstTheRich,

Informed of what? The next target of right wing shitheads on youtube and twitter? Use your brain.

Edit: see you’re a right winger yourself. So using your brain will be difficult. Asshole.

Kaboom,

That it’s a lefty company with a lefty culture?

ocassionallyaduck,

Stop buying their shit then. Leave the people who make it the fuck alone.

“Go woke go broke” vote with your dollars and let their “wokeness” fail in the free market. Don’t fucking harass people.

Kaboom,

Easy there, I’m already planning on not buying it, just like I’m sure plenty of others are planning not to. Just need to get the word out that the company isn’t one to buy from.

With any luck, it’ll be the next Veilguard.

ocassionallyaduck,

Good, now you just have to avoid buying from…

checks staff lists

Every single major publisher.

Good luck. Don’t play that woke Call of Duty or that DEI Fortnite while you’re at it. And avoid the mind virus of Elden Ring and Bandai Namco.

Kaboom,

I was already not playing AAA, if only because of MTX. I’ve been playing games like Mullet Madjack lately.

RageAgainstTheRich,

They are not doing anything wrong, dipshit. What is the horrific thing they are doing? Protecting trans colleagues? Protecting people of color they work with? Just because your fuhrer wants a white straight male environment, does not mean everyone else does. Go outside for once in your life. Maybe you will gain some empathy for your fellow humans.

Kaboom,

Being left wing is not wrong, just like being right wing isn’t wrong. Further more, nothing wrong with customers being more informed about the company they’re buying from.

What, are you upset that the multinational corporation might lose out on a few sales?

Whateley,

being right wing isn’t wrong

Lol, yes it is, you brainrotted simpleton. Your continued attempts at normalizing psychotic behavior under the auspices of consumer protection proves as much.

Go do a few cartwheels through a busy intersection, chud.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Activision is a lefty company with a lefty culture. Dear fucking lord, that has to be one of the worst takes I’ve read on lemmy. What’s next, Mark Zuckerberg is a deep cover lefty librul?

inclementimmigrant,

Come on, she’s too Republican to ever admit she’s wrong. Just down here, block and move on since she just craves attention that Daddy never have her.

Old_Yharnam,

Stupid take

Squizzy,

Bootlicker

Jaderick,

Give us your name and address so we can be informed. That’s not a bad thing, we’ll be better informed.

Kaboom,

Donald. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

(Hint, we already know who works where, via LinkedIn.)

Flamekebab, do gaming w Game developers are still feeling the pull of last-generation consoles
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

I've got an Xbox One X and there's just not been anything on current gen platforms that excites me. Lots of live service games that are of zero interest to me, coupled with subscriptions that end up imposing FoMo.

FrostyCaveman, do games w Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer

I think at this point maybe Embracer should try replacing Lars Wingefors with ChatGPT instead

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