The GDC presentation on Rendering, Materials, and Lights in the game! It's amazing how certain features are still valuable and usable over a decade later.

#Rendering@GameDEV
#ArtDirection@GameDEV
#GDC@GameDEV

A real-time switch between Clark Kent and Superman made in Godot Engine!

#GodotEngine@GameDEV

Delete it!

#Blender@GameDEV

I still miss this map!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuUIeEgT22M

#LevelDesign@GameDEV

Wait, what...

#meme@GameDEV

Silent Hill pixel art fanart

#PixelArt@GameDEV
#FanArt@GameDEV

AMD confirmed its Ryzen 9000HX lineup for high-end gaming and workstation laptops. They will be available later this year and the X3D model is announced with its regular counterparts.

It's hard to say how big the difference is, since raw frequency, core counts, and cache are the same. We expect it will be fairly reasonable to buy the previous generation for the majority of customers.

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#Hardware@GameDEV

They also confirmed all rumors about the most powerful APU lineup: up to 40 units on GPU and up to 120W TDP for it. Leaked benchmarks outperform RTX 3060 desktop.

The flagship 40CU GPU is using system RAM, but can allocate up to 96GB of it. Which may help with VRAM demanding games and tasks, like AI and simulations. Usually, AMD allows you to allocate up to 50% of RAM on compatible devices.

#Hardware@GameDEV
#AMD@GameDEV
#GPU@GameDEV

This (ex-Kotaku) Alyssa Mercante quote definitely won't backfire, right...

One fella has 1080 Ti and Indiana Jones isn't supported on cards without Raytracing. So he made his own version in Unity!

#Unity@GameDEV
#RayTracing@GameDEV

Flow (2024) movie, made entirely in Blender, just won Golden Globe for Best Animated Picture!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD06LQzWFTc

#Blender@GameDEV

A nice touch on Color Theory that is also affecting modern games: you can have a very limited variety of saturated objects on screen to keep it appealing.

And you have to either desaturate the whole image or limit the variety around 1-2 compatible tones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HEGegeJo7g

#ColorTheory@GameDEV
#ArtDirection@GameDEV

Shift Up (the studio behind Stellar Blade) awarded its workers with PS5 Pro and $3.4K New Year bonus.

I'd definitely prefer a PC though 😉

The new FSR 4 will be upscaled with Machine Learning and will not support older cards. The new feature is currently announced for Call of Duty Black Ops 6 only and there are no independent reviews available.

Older cards will have to enjoy the fallback to FSR 3.1. Same as NVIDIA, AMD explains it with hardware requirements — RDNA4 architecture is absolutely different and has AI acceleration modules.

#Hardware@GameDEV
#AMD@GameDEV

You can have even more fake frames now, folks! Up to three made up frames for every real frame, yay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQn3bsPNTyI

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Fortunately, there are good news too: DLSS now supports the OVERRIDE feature, to change DLSS in games where developers haven't updated it.

And the DLSS itself will use an absolutely new algorithm (which is faster and more stable). They reached the limits of what Convolutional Neural Networks can do and switched to Transformer Model (I haven't heard of). We need more independent reviews to see what it means and how it looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXaM4WK3bzg

And last but not least: DLSS 4 as the improved upscaling algorithm will be available across all RTX cards. But Frame Generation is limited to RTX 40 and 50.

Meanwhile, several Ryzen CPUs are affected by Core Communication Latency all thanks to their BigLittle architecture with several powerful cores and several light ones. Intel faced the same with their 13/14+ generations, Qualcomm faced it like a decade ago on mobile.

Ryzen had similar issues before on their chips with two dies (CCDs). But it was less noticeable, since all cores were identical.

Why do we hit the same issues again and again? How manufacturers discover even worse versions of previous issues?

Wait, how dangerous is it? In certain games and workflows it can noticeably limit the performance or cause stutters. The issue can't be fixed completely on software level, but can be covered up partially by better drivers and microcode.

#Hardware@GameDEV
#AMD@GameDEV

I adore Joseph Kosinski's work. He is one of the last directors, who is still able to build-up worlds. He isn't good in writing them, but visuals are beyond imaginable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYPCPr-fzoM