game design

  1. Why Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Lacks HDR Support and How to Work Around It

    You boot up Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, eyes peeled for heart-stopping visuals, and you’re ready for that glorious, retina-scorching HDR. But wait—where’s the setting? Your TV sits in judgment, dripping with HDR allure, mocking your lack of dynamic range. Game after game flexes dazzling color...
  2. Call of Duty’s Contradiction: Ganja Skins and Censored Chats Explained

    I spent a good chunk of the recent long weekend plowing through Call of Duty—not solely because the adrenaline of narrowly escaping digital demise is preferable to, say, mowing the lawn, but because there's never a dull moment in this ever-morphing, sometimes confounding shooter universe. Yet...
  3. Ubisoft's Open-Source Chroma Tool Revolutionizes Game Accessibility for Colorblind Players

    How Ubisoft’s Open-Sourced Chroma Tool Marks a Watershed Moment in Game Accessibility The Challenge of Game Accessibility: An Industry at a Crossroads Video gaming has evolved from a niche pastime into a dominant force in global entertainment, captivating billions across every demographic...
  4. Microsoft's AI-Powered Quake 2 Demo: A Complex Fusion of Nostalgia and Innovation

    Microsoft’s experimental AI-powered Quake 2 demo makes a bold, if shaky, leap into the future of game ideation. At first glance, it’s a quirky mash-up of nostalgic 90s shooter aesthetics and modern generative AI technology—a recipe that promises both innovation and, inevitably, a fair share of...
  5. Microsoft's AI-Powered Quake II Demo: Bridging Classic Gaming and AI Innovation

    Microsoft’s new AI-powered Quake II demo is turning heads as it blurs the line between classic gaming and modern artificial intelligence research. In a browser-based tech demo, Microsoft showcases how its Copilot AI platform and the Muse family of AI models can simulate an entire level of the...
  6. VIDEO Reallusion’s real-time animation and creation tools empower creators to achieve their dreams

    In more than a decade working at Reallusion – a 3D and 2D software and content developer that specializes in Windows-based real-time animation and creation tools – Enoc Burgos has seen a lot of changes in the industry, but one thing is consistent in his role as director of partnership marketing...
  7. VIDEO Forcing poor NPCs to pay - Payment

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  8. VIDEO Assassin logic in games

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  9. Exploring Death Stranding: Stunning Graphics and Unique Storyline Await

    First, a few screenshots: As one can see the graphics are superb and requirements are surprisingly low: OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® 10. PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200. MEMORY: 8 GB. GRAPHICS: GeForce® GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB. Direct X: Version 12...
  10. Microsoft Store empowers students with free Computer Science Education Week workshops

    One hundred and thirteen years ago in New York, a girl was born into a generation where the average woman was more likely to perfect a signature pie recipe than solve a pi-based equation. Pushing against expectations, this girl became one of the pre-eminent technologists of our times and made it...
  11. Making mixed reality: Meet the mind behind interactive film Free the Night

    Link Removed Created by Nicole McDonald and JauntVR, the full immersive app experience Link Removed is now available on Link Removed. Read on to learn how its award-winning director made her childhood dream into a reality. Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Link Removed, creator of Link...
  12. Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge Updates

    When we launched the Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge in June, we had big plans for not just a contest, but a way for indie game developers to connect with each other and show off their skills and experience. We didn’t set out to replace existing communities, but maybe we could create a little...
  13. Making mixed reality: a conversation with Lucas Rizzotto

    Link Removed I first met Lucas Rizzotto at a Link Removed hackathon last December, where he and his team built a holographic advertising solution. Fast forward to August, and he’s now an award-winning mixed reality creator, technologist, and designer with two HoloLens apps in Windows Store...
  14. VIDEO Doom: A Classic Game Post-Mortem

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  15. Made with Unity, Coded on Surface – The Story of Contingent 99

    Over the next few months, we will feature game creators who are making games using the Unity game development platform. We’ve partnered with the Made with Unity program to showcase some of the amazing, talented game developers out there and how they use Surface to make their games come to life...
  16. VIDEO Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Adds New UWP Exporter

    New developers – bring your app to various devices on Windows 10 with a simple mouse click. Link Removed has joined the Universal Windows Platform revolution with the release of its new UWP Exporter for Link Removed, a game and software creation tool used to write 2D games and apps across...
  17. Codeless game engine Buildbox adds Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support

    Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch with Buildbox, have been using the software to build chart topping games across multiple...
  18. Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp

    Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly... Link Removed [Post Copied in Full] Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as...
  19. Building Windows 10 Games with Unity 5

    In our second Link Removed theme week post, Link Removed and Link RemovedLink Removed spend 6+ hours teaching you have to create 3D Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform games with Unit 5... Link Removed Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...
  20. Coding4Fun Second Quarter 2015 Round-Up

    June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months! Coding4Fun Blog Small Basic Gets a Not So Small Update... v1.1 Intel Galileo V2 and You Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Retargeting Extension...