Surprisingly, #Facebook started to offer random people to make new secondary profiles. It was strictly against the rules before.

#WTF #SocialNetworks #Meta

It's not OPEN SOURCE anymore if you ban people on GitHub for different political views… there are unfortunately more and more examples like this.

Yes, they kinda able to make another account, but it's not the point: open source policies suggest that such limits can't be applied at all for social reasons.

#GodotEngine #WTF #FOSS

You can get all Megascans on your account while they are still free:

https://gist.github.com/jamiephan/0c04986c7f2e62d5c87c4e8c8ce115fc#file-run-js #UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameAssets

The script will add all 18800+ items to your account. And according to Tim Sweeney they will remain on your account after Quixel will become paid again in 2025.

I know, it was a stressful couple of days and you need this #Nintendo #meme

If you still haven't played Little Misfortune, I highly recommend it #IndieGames #2DArt

It's a 2D puzzle thriller with a very good narrative and slightly awkward controls. It's about 2 hours long and still totally worth it.

Remember Tony Hawk games? Well, Tony is now a grandpa. The second grandpa of this baby is Kurt Cobain (and I'm not even joking) 😺

Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws has sold only 1 million copies within the first month since its launch. And the game was very expensive.

Even cheaper AC Mirage gained over 5m players in the same time frame. This was the reason behind recent changes in Ubisoft — a few more games like this and there would be nothing to save.

#Ubisoft

Meanwhile, #Nintendo killed yet another emulator... #emulation

They were doing it for years but slowly. Recently, they probably decided to clean up the market for the upcoming Switch 2 release and attacked almost every significant emulator out there, taking them down one by one.

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Me, trying to get home from work faster #meme

You may be thinking, if there are #FlaxEngine, #O3DE, #Stride3D, #S2ENGINE, and literally dozens of others, where are games? I've tried a bunch of those engines today in a row: it's a minefield.

What common features are there, which aren't, what works and not — it's absolutely unpredictable.

Imagine, that things like the game settings are exceptionally limited; Project creation/deletion may not work from time to time; Or strict folders per file type, turning import process into an hour of guessing and testing.

That's the experience you don't want to have as #IndieDeveloper (there are already enough issues to fix).

Overall, making good #GameEngines isn't about pure technical features or a combination of those, it's how the app provides a meaningful workflow: proper groups of tasks + swiftly shifting between those groups.

Or, in case of the majority of modern engines, fails trying.

Compression intensifies #meme

Do you remember Reboot? The first fully 3D TV series that was nearly impossible during the first episode and absolutely outdated by the end of the show...

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

Our support for small #GameDEV YT channels: here's the tutorial to make better fog in #UnrealEngine 5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteo2x4asxI #UE5 #VFX

We haven't told you about the recent Unreal Engine 5.5 announcement, so here's the best part — Unreal Mega Lights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDr1civeXs

— It's now possible to use thousands of dynamic lights in the scene with accurate soft shadows. It's called Mega Lights.
— Developers of high-end games will have the ability to utilize any shape and any texture of light not only for diffuse lighting (which was possible before), but for shadows and reflections too

#UE5 #UnrealEngine #VFX #Rendering #GameEngines

And the biggest Unreal Engine hater out there released his new video: this time about frame analysis and what is the bottleneck in UE5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAbEE9bLfBg #UE5 #UnrealEngine #Rendering #GameEngines

A simple Ocean Shader for Godot 4 (much easier than the one with big waves), also MIT Licensed

https://github.com/Flarkk/Godot-Water-Shader-Prototype #FOSS #Shaders #GodotEngine #Godot4