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Sure. I'll tell you about a very important lesson I learned years ago. Once upon a time, I was working on a mature (read: years-old) MMOG - one that had a solid audience and was profitable. It paid the bills, kept on going, and allowed us to build cool stuff for the players who enjoyed it very much. It's still running
I think that many publishers are watching this winter's sales numbers with great interest. Nobody wants to be the first out of the gate with price increases, but GTA likely has the best chance of succeeding with a price increase. If GTA is as successful as people believe, I think that, like most cases in this situation
Really, the answer here is scope. Now that the character models have fingers, toes, ears, physics-driven hair, muscle deformation, cloth simulation, and a never-ending series of fidelity improvements, we now need artists, animators, and engineers to build systems and assets for all of that fidelity. Not too long ago, I
Here's the thing about game development - we plan for modularity (meaning that it should be possible to make each major part independently and at the same time as the other major parts). For example, consider the kind of technology and tooling that we would need to build one route in a game like Fire Emblem Fortune's W
The price of game hardware is absolutely affecting game dev. The vast majority of games are developed with target performance bands in mind: High end, where the game is performant with all of the bells and whistles turned on Mid-spec, where the game is performant with default settings Low end, where the game is only pe
It's better to take a step back and look at where a game idea is before we enter preproduction and then where it is once we finish preproduction. Before we enter preproduction, the project is in the Concept phase where we try to figure out what the game is going to be. This might be a specific theme and story that the
Our internal goals of closed and open beta are different, mostly due to the logistics involved. Closed beta is primarily about gathering feedback from testers and fine-tuning the player experience. Open beta is about primarily about stress-testing our systems to make sure they can hold up under load. Closed beta is whe
It doesn't actually have that much to do with Unreal Engine itself so much as it is more about how many games have a certain similar "look" that is characterized by realistic lighting, lower color saturation, and detailed texturing and materials on the 3D models. The reason that we associate it with Unreal Engine is be
It doesn't (or at least shouldn't ) work like that. That would basically mean we were asleep at the wheel for roughly six months of live service (launch + 3 months for patch 1 + 3 months for patch 2). Let's get into it a bit more. Whenever a content update goes live (including launch), everything behind it in the pipe
This is essentially what governments do to keep their own internal programs running. Have you ever wondered why government agencies often run ancient computers? It's not because they can't buy new stuff, it's because government services are essentially all live services that cannot stop and their continued operation re
Most RPGs are single player or cooperative, so competition isn't really a thing. Competitive RPG games tend to be MMOGs, in which case the player's capacity for burst damage tends to matter more than anything else (and everything tends to run in real time in MMOGs, not a lot of turn-based MMOs). Competitive turn-based
Let's take it back to first principles. Consider the [ information channels ] we have to convey information to players, such as: Visual cues Audio cues Peripheral vision cues Haptic/Rumble cues These channels are how we pass information about the game state to the player. In co-op design space, we can take advantage of
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