At least someone is doing great: #Roblox shared some of their stats:

- DAU (Daily Active Users): 79.5 million, of which 46.4 million (58.4%) are over 13 years old, 32.4 million (40.8%) are 13 or younger, and for 0.7 million, the age couldn't be determined.
- Audience growth: Over the year, the DAU for the 13+ audience grew by 10 million, and the 13 or younger audience grew by 4.2 million.
- Interestingly, until about 2023, Roblox provided a more detailed age breakdown, not just for those 13 years old.

Why is the age "13 years" important?
The age threshold of "13 years" is taken from the COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) in the USA, which restricts the collection of personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. Approximately a quarter of Roblox's audience is in the USA, making compliance with this law critically important. In 2022, Epic Games paid a fine of $275 million for violating this law.

#Laws #Infographics

Game UI database has been upgraded to provide better search tools, video support, color analysis tools, and more. And it's still free!

https://www.gameuidatabase.com #UIUX #Free #GameArt #ColorTheory #ArtDirection

Brawl Stars is doing good, their monthly revenue increased by 500% (from $9M to $57M)

How did they achieve this in one year?

Here are the key updates that made a massive impact:

1. Goal Setting and Engagement Mechanics
• Double Starr Drops
• Brawl Together
• Trophy League

2. Awesome Battle Passes
• Packed with cool rewards and collabs

3. Diversified Gameplay with new PVP and PVE events:
• Wipeout 5v5
• Trophy Escape
• Knockout 5v5

VIA Anton Slashcev

#BrawlStars #MobileGames #Analytics #Infographics #LiveOps #Monetization

Scary #programming #meme

Wise move #ProjectManagement #meme

When your #Blender character takes control over the app

Source #Animations #3DArt

If you are looking for investments into game studio, it's gonna be good to know what are these $$$ for. Narwhal Accelerator explained it in this detailed article:

Advanced Profits & Loss (P&L) guide for game developers

#Finance #Business #GameDev #Investments

Meanwhile, #Meta shuts down Ready at Dawn — the studio behind several #PlayStation hits like The Order 1886 and Lone Echo VR.

Unlike many other companies during this wave of layoffs, Meta will try to keep as many people as possible within other departments.

#VR #Layoffs

Pablo Vasquez from #Blender team said that they are working with #GodotEngine to improve synergy between two apps to make a better #GameAssets pipeline!

#Godot4 #GameEngines

Today is the international #Cats day, let's celebrate! Here are some cat-related games on Steam, share yours in the comments!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177980/Little_Kitty_Big_City/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332010/Stray/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1809540/Nine_Sols/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532690/BLACKTAIL/

If anyone expected amazing Ryzen 9000, they will be disappointed. When mobile CPUs at least gonna have impressive AI accelerator, the desktop models perform equally or worse in games:

9600X can't beat a very stable and cheap 12600K and even 7600X.

Wanna get a cheap CPU this year? Try 12600K, Ryzen 5800X3D or Ryzen 7000 chips. And stay away from Intel 13/14-gen or Ryzen 9000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80Gqhe2Kt8 #Hardware #AMD #Ryzen #Intel

Hot take: I hate new Blender 4.2 approach to extensions — they are always online and without filtering to see what is official and what is from 3RD parties.

The new cloud-based library works slowly and don't work at all with even a little unstable internet connection. And dozens of addons are only accessible from this library now. I want offline addons back.

They managed to put Bool Tools and Loop Tools into their cloud storage — things that huge portion of users need to efficiently model things. And if your internet isn't perfect, you can't download them.

#Blender #3DArt

How do you do, fellow kids? #meme

Leaked driving from the upcoming #Starfield update looks like driving in the middle of nowhere 😔

#Bethesda

Yes, please! HU made a video about AMD marketing that just makes no sense in the last couple of years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpAinbL8vA #Hardware #AMD #Radeon

#IndieGames on #Steam #meme

And #Microsoft is killing Paint, not the main app but its funky brother Paint 3D. It was a nice thing for kids but it never became a worthy tool for workers (while they would love free but simple alternatives to #Blender).

The app originally appeared during the #VR boom, when Microsoft dreamed of using it for Mixed Reality headsets Holo Lense.

Half-life is the #ImmersiveSim 😁 #meme