Epic Store requires a lot of #UIUX improvements: even the most basic things like installation pop-up are incomplete. How would the user know the required space for the game? Is there enough on my G drive? And the case is even worse for limited internet users — knowing the download size is forbidden knowledge.

Honestly, it's not about free games giveaways to get loyalty at this point, but about the service that will be somewhat usable (at least for these free games).

Little Camera Preview for 2D and 3D in #GodotEngine (this feature has been discussed for a few years and may be in the core later on).

https://github.com/anthonyec/godot_little_camera_preview

#Godot4 #Free #Plugins

If you missed the cringe: Rockstar is trying to sue Remedy over "R in the logo". This is the most brilliant illustration for the topic. Thanks, Internet!

#Legal #Meme

There's a certain progress with proper audio distribution in Godot 4 3D scenes: the feature will be available on asset store

https://youtu.be/M3W7m0QSX-8
#Godot4 #GodotEngine #SoundDesign

GameStar sources confirmed that during 2023 Piranha Bytes tried to find the new owner and failed. THQ Nordic were supporting it as long as they could and tried to protect it from Embracer Group.

Unfortunately, last December all employees were fired (it will take time due to local labor laws, but technically "the office is empty", as the source said).

Embracer Group is still hoping to sell ELEX to somebody and for now, they are keeping the company as a shell for this deal.

The Gothic Remastered is developed in Spain by a different company and wasn't affected by this decision.

#Infographics #Steam

The major #Xbox event is gonna start in a few minutes:

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

Software recommendations are very personal but this one may be very handy: Vivaldi browser (created by the original Opera founder) just received the update with Workspaces. Even before Vivaldi created the perfect tab groups, this feature goes much further:

1. You can manually make workspaces for different sides of your life and switch between them for better focus
2. You can automatically assign new tabs for specific workspace (for example, by domain)

Under the hood it's chrome on steroids and without Google.

And now #GodotEngine is the third most used publicly available game engine among GDC 2024 visitors with about 3% of the audience (compared to 33% votes for Unreal and Unity each).

Meanwhile CryEngine and O3DE (ex Lumberyard) fell below 1% and previously popular GameMaker is also out of charts.

#GameEngines #GodotEngine #Unity #UnrealEngine

Hot take, but I feel the same: too many SONY games are third person open-world story-driven fantasy/sci-fi whatever.

#meme #Xbox #PlayStation

The first big patch for Starfield fixed civilians: now they have reasonable faces, proper skin shader and their eyes no longer tracking the player all the time.

Their AI and reactions to hostile actions from the player are still completely broken, though.

Maybe in 2-3 years it will become a playable game!

Mad skills time: every node in #GodotEngine explained in ~40 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO2gthp45MA
#Godot4 #Tutorials

Palworld reached #10 spot on the Steam concurrent players chart (all-time). The game about catching and owning funky creatures (that isn't licenced by Pokemon) is doing extremely well.

The first million copies were sold in less than 8 hours, and 2m+ in just 24h.

Ubisoft #meme time

Wait, what?

SOURCE

Perfectionists and elitists are like "wait, you can make games and learn on the go" instead of "learn everything and make no games". Whoa!

Off-topic time: amazing collaborative experience from lockdown era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVZgfXfM5KM

RTX Remix by #NVIDIA is now in Open Beta — #Modding of old games have never been easier!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-remix-open-beta-half-life-2-rtx-trailer/
#RTX #RetroGames

Indiana Jones, but it's a Quantic Dream's QTE game...

#meme #Xbox

The easiest way to port #GodotEngine games on #NintendoSwitch — the code is under MIT, but you still have to be a certified Switch Developer to use it properly.

Unlike other options, no fee needed to use the port and no revenue share applied later on.

https://www.rawrlab.com/godot_nintendo_switch_free_port.html

#Godot4 #Nintendo

Riot Games (League of Legends, Valorant) fired 530 people and shut down its 3rd party studios which were publishing singleplayer games.

During the first three weeks alone, there were more people fired in the game industry than during the whole 2022. Some suggest that the trend will continue for the whole year.

#Business