And yeah, also it will affect Game Pass installs, that are "free" and do not cause instant profits for publishers, only valid played time is counted.

Lightweight and free #GodotEngine has become trendy after changes in Unity's financial model. Godot got 300% growth in Google overnight, videos related to porting games to it are also getting a lot of new views.

Yep, it's absolutely free and open source, you can do whatever you want with it and don't have to pay any royalties or fees. You can donate to them optionally.

Godotengine.org

#Godot #GameEngines #Business

And there's not just Godot out there:

➡️ Keep in mind that #UNIGINE Community SDK comes with zero runtime fees or royalties, and it's absolutely free for small indie developers, and it also supports C#: https://developer.unigine.com/en/docs/latest/migration/from_unity/

➡️ O3DE (Amazon Lumberyard) is free and open source tool for high-end games: https://o3de.org/

➡️ STRIDE has amazing C# support and is also #FOSS: https://www.stride3d.net/

➡️ Defold is not just FOSS, it goes beyond – you can't sell the engine in any form (other FOSS allow you to resell what's free), but all your games are absolutely yours and you can do whatever you want with them https://defold.com/

➡️ https://www.cocos.com/en – the demo above runs in Cocos, that was 2D for ages and recently gained 3D support. Not the most obvious choice, but still worthy.

#GameEngines

Finally!

The upcoming Fallout live action series from Amazon has been shown behind closed doors. Here's the glimpse of what they've seen.

#TV #Amazon #Fallout

My hopes are high for another movie only geeks will appreciate (in a row with Blade Runner and Ad Astra). Meet the final trailer and see you in cinemas in three weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZuGdi32bk

The same rules and tricks of editing can be applied to games: cinematics and trailers, cutscenes, and general camera work. This is one of the reasons why the story-driven missions of Ghostwire Tokyo are so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE
#Cinematography #Editing #Animations

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and the new patch are gonna be available later this month. The overhaul looks like the game CDPR initially promised with better perks balance, car chases, and more. And Idris Elba looks great in his new role!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJbexcm4Trk

All assets by Kenney are free for a limited time (CC0, but just a few hours left to get them for any price you suggest instead of $20):

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

#GameAssets #Free #CC0

Narrative scripting INK for #GodotEngine 4.1 has been updated!

(including full recompilation when you write in included ink files)

https://github.com/paulloz/godot-ink/releases/tag/v1.1.0
#Godot4 #Narrative

Ink is inkle's scripting language for writing interactive narrative, both for text-centric games as well as more graphical games that contain highly branching stories. It's designed to be easy to learn, but with powerful enough features to allow an advanced level of structuring.

https://github.com/inkle/ink

Alternatives for Godot:

https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager

https://github.com/Chevifier/QuestManager

FTC "accidentally" forgot to delete confidential parts of Microsoft archives and published files as is.

– There gonna be an updated Xbox Series with better storage, IO, etc + new controller!
– Microsoft discussed purchase of Valve and Nintendo a couple of years ago (highly doubtful idea, Valve is private company and Gabe hates MS)
– There are a lot of remasters and sequels on the way (Ghostwire Tokyo 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc)

There will be way more confidential info, but not all of it is accurate – Starfield in these docs is still a game of 2021, while in reality it was released in 2023.

LMAO #Hardware #Meme

#Infographics #GameEngines

Share with friends and bookmark for yourself!

Terraria creators donated a little fortune to OpenSource #GameEngines due to raising doubts over Unity and the idea of commercial engines' reliability in general.

https://twitter.com/Terraria_Logic/status/1704227519027651016/photo/1

#Godot4 #GodotEngine

#GodotEngine #Programming #Meme

They also announced the same AI assistant for GOOGLE MAPS, imagine your reviews on the map, but they are written by AI.

This is getting out of hand...

#AI #NoAI #NeuralNetworks #Google

What are your TOP-5 games/apps on Steam?

#Poll #Steam