Microsoft started to require some users to explain themselves while shutting down #OneDrive on their #Windows 11 machines.

The previous warning was only saying that files will no longer be able to synchronize. Probably this wasn't enough and people were mostly skipping it without reading and then complained about files loss.

Next step: five free closures, others for $4.99/month.

And #SteamDeck is now OLED and has 1TB version in its 2023 refresh. There's also 6nm APU instead of 7nm, but the tech is the same (ZEN2 CPU cores + RDNA2 GPU).

It's still far behind Asus, Lenovo, GPD, and other competitors using ZEN4 cores and Ryzen 7000 architecture this year. But Deck is still cheaper.

And older versions are gonna be available at a certain discount!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeck_2023

#Hardware #Handhelds #Valve #Steam

What if Venom would be a Netflix drama?

Made in #Blender using IvyGen by RJCallahgan

As a huge Avatar fan, I'm not so sure about live action version: it still lacks the proper balance between wise drama and dorky comedy.

PS. Momo looks horrible 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJKJW_XU90

Translation: studios expect to cut 90% of jobs in three years #AI #Business

Meanwhile Golden Joystick Awards honored Alan Wake 2

Ages ago I was working on a mobile game and one of the stages of map development and upgrades was to create blurry shots to check for visual clarity on hotspots.

Human eyes are not seeing the full resolution all the time and peripherical view has even worse level of details (but higher response rate), which makes it crucial to keep all possibilities clear for the player in every hotspot of the map.

Here the sandy surface is matching floors and serves as the guideline: players can easily follow those bright lines and spots to get into other hotspots. Shadows on the contrary suggest hiding spots or blockers of the path.

#LevelDesign #LevelArt #GameDesign #Tutorials

Meanwhile #Microsoft released an article about #Xbox ID: the self-publishing process that allows you to make your games available on Xbox:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/articles/2023/11/publishing-pathways-id-at-xbox/

Exceptional overview of CGI hair and fur issues and one of the best solution – shell fur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dr-tRQzij4
#Tutorials #Shaders

Funniest thing: there's a better working thing for #Godot 3.4: https://github.com/Arnklit/ShellFurGodot and forked for #Godot4 https://github.com/radair6000/ShellFurGodot4

Hilarious fraud that #Steam still allows: imagine hundreds of broken copycat games for $100+ each – how do they make money if no one buys them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwc9XkuuTGI
#Business #Valve #Fraud

When your old school #RPG (that according to Microsoft no one needs) breaks the record of the highest number of awards on Golden Joystick for a single game.

#LarianStudios

Asus released Evangelion themed motherboard and misspelled it (it's Evange"n"lion now, bois...)

#Hardware #Fail #Asus

The best of light to color #Tutorials

You may've seen artistic side of things, but this time a lot of science will be explained and the value of perception in color theory, that comes from our biological limitations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv-wlo8yVhk

Bear in Russia cosplaying Baldur's Gate 3 #meme #RTXon

Deep analysis of what's wrong with Starfield compared to almost any other game, including previous Bethesda titles, like Skyrim and Fallout 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL6sK8w5JtA
#GameDesign #Narrative

Do you remember Star Wars failure? Not the recent one, but how it was criticized during the era of prequels in early 2000s: poor and very often innovative VFX practices led to some interesting issues that game developers can learn from too!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I7Iuia5560Y

The company behind famous 505 games publishing (working with Kojima and Remedy) decided to lay off 30% of their workforce.

It's estimated that the overall industry lost about 20 000 jobs during this autumn even among successful companies. Imagine to be behind exceptional sales of Spider-Man 2 on PlayStation and still be fired. Well, that's the industry right now.

Current numbers are higher than what we've seen in 2008 during the previous big economy decline.

#Business

It's #LevelDesign #meme

Meanwhile: Wreckfest is on sale for #Android and #iOS for less than any item in your favorite Free 2 Play game. Deep and detailed physical racing with several game modes, total havock, lawnmowers and school buses!

UPD: Android version has been sold over 50 000 times. It's a good sign for premium mobile games! Keep in mind that the majority of people bought it for $10.

#Sale #Offers #Racing

Useful article about #Localization and #Translation

https://inlingogames.com/blog/loc-testing/how-to-hyphenate-in-asian-languages