Humble Games is reportedly shutting down, all 36 employees were laid off on July 23.

Indie publishing was known for over 50 games including A Hat in Time, Slay the Spire, Unpacking, Temtem, Midnight Fight Express, and Signalis.

Humble Bundle is a different entity and will not be affected.

#Business #Layoffs

Scratch-like scripting for #GodotEngine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7n7gJIkbk0 #Godot4 #NoCode #GameEngines

Recent CPUs from Intel are a ticking bomb: they have an exceptionally fast degrading cycle...

The issue isn't fixable: you literally need to replace a faulty generation as a whole, which they don't want to do. So to avoid losses, Intel is trying to hide oxidation issue behind updates for the Voltage pattern in Microcode and BIOS (those are the issue but not related to physical oxidation problem of all 13 and 14-gen CPUs).

Professionals admit that such issue hasn't happened for over 25 years in CPU history. And it may be impossible to replace those chips for Intel and partners since the question would be "with what?" It may take them up to a year to get a significant quantities of upgraded and fixed units to replace over two years of faulty products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs #Hardware #Intel

Ubisoft tried to explain their ties with fake scientist and called their overall intentions "inspiring rather than historically accurate".

A few days ago it turned out that Yasuke stories were mostly made up by Thomas Lockley, an associate professor in law university.

He fabricated articles on Wikipedia from fake accounts, wrote a fanfiction book for 400+ pages, kept insulting people (including Japanese) and yes, you guessed it right — he consulted Ubisoft.

He deleted all of his accounts and moved, but the raging online crowd is still asking the university to fire him and Ubisoft to cancel the game.

Best practices for in-game shops (by Balancy.co), free book:

https://balancy.co/wp-content/themes/balancy/Best_practices_for_in-game_shops.pdf

#Books #Free #Monetization

Meanwhile, Fallout London is #Free on GOG: go grab it while you still can!

https://www.gog.com/game/fallout_london

The most ridiculous optimization tutorial for #GodotEngine that starts as something fairly normal and ends up with very smart madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG-H-IfXUqI #Godot4 #Shaders #Optimization #Tutorials

You know what else is #Free? FIST on Epic Store!

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fist-forged-in-shadow-torch #EGS #EpicGamesStore

Yeah, exactly! #meme

Gamers be like: sure, I'll pick it up! #GameDesign #meme

You've asked for it: recent #UE5 talks about time frame spikes and #Optimization of Unreal Engine games, summed up by Digital Foundry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSuMp0L5Sw #UnrealEngine #GameEngines #Shaders #GameDev

Free #UnrealEngine course on Udemy! It is specifically made for newbies, so check it out:

https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal-engine-5-introduction/ #UE5 #Tutorials

Finally! #Steam decided that due to the importance of Demo versions it will now treat them as free games.

Which means: it will be possible to make a separate page for it, it will have separate reviews, players will be able to add it to the library without installation, etc.

Players will be able to have both versions installed (full and demo) which will be used by small teams as a testing ground for new and experimental features.

#GameDev #IndieGames #Valve

This is why you need version control systems! Imagine the loss of the game by losing one instance of the source code...

#Programming #IndieGames #Fiasco #Fail

The new Deadpool movie got $438m during the first weekend, which is the best result among R-rated films ($205m in North America).

Haven't seen it yet since UK cinemas have strict rules and haven't allowed me to watch it with my son 😅

Share your opinion in the chat if you watched it already! 😉

Remember #AI upscaler that locally works and sends nothing to the cloud?

#AMD just released the local images generation app that can utilize their new AI chips in their full glory! And yes, it's not using cloud computing.

https://community.amd.com/t5/ai/introducing-amuse-2-0-beta-with-amd-xdna-super-resolution-a/ba-p/697374

Holy cow: it has Advanced mode toggle (bottom left) that turns it into fully-featured local generator of images, videos, and more.

Surprisingly, Scavengers Reign wasn't created in 2023: originally, it was a short film, available on YouTube.

And before that it was a series of works and ideas by Jean "Moebius" Giraud. He worked on Fifth Element, The Abyss, Dune, and other movies, but has his own artictic universe. I'll add his art in our chat!

Based on Moebius works, Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner created the original Scavengers in 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TRzemJbUsw #ArtDirection #2DArt #Animations