What Does A Total Beginner Need To Know To Create A Video Game?

A lot! However, below you will find the answer given by Andy Schatz, owner of Pocketwatch Games, Tooth and Tail, Indie since 2005. — December 11, 2017. Games are a multidisciplinary field, but aside from programming, all of those disciplines are things with a very low barrier to entry. Most of us have made games before. When you were a kid,

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A Video Game Music Composer’s Resource Guide

We wanted to share with you a guide to understanding music in VR written by Winnifred Phillips, award-winning composer with more than 13 years of experience in the game industry and a long list of video game credits that include titles from five of the most prominent franchises in gaming: Assassin’s Creed, LittleBigPlanet, Total War, God of War, and The Sims. —

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Here Are All The Video Games Releasing In December

December is the first month since this past summer that we can all finally take a breather. The video game release schedule is manageable for the first time in months. — December 5, 2017. Here’s the full list of December 2017 video game releases: Doom VFR (PSVR, Vive) – December 1 Gear Club (Switch) – December 1 Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch) –

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A Guide to the Holiday Season’s Biggest Video Games and Consoles

It’s that time of the year again, and the games industry is pushing out a diverse lineup of titles, from new installments of long-running franchises like Activision’s Call of Duty and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed to EA’s long-awaited Star Wars Battlefront II. — December 1, 2017. But the real crowd pleasers this year may be in hardware. Microsoft and Nintendo are

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How Video Game Tech Makes Neural Networks Possible

Thanks to the creation of ever-more powerful Graphical Processing Unit (GPUs), deep machine learning and neural networks are poised to change almost every aspect of society. — November 27, 2017. When id Software’s John Carmack released Doom in 1993, he had no inkling that his gory first-person shooter — one of the first to feature a 3D environment, and quickly

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