"Blending 2D hand-drawn madness with 3D real-time rendering like it's nothing Spider-Verse motion smears meet LoL cinematic polish in this Unreal Engine 5 masterpiece by Redhill Games & @peteborks. Mind = blown.
#Stylized #UnrealEngine5
Final image: an aerial shot over Treasure Town.
Hidden line rendering of the 3d stage.
Seen from an angle, the textures appear stretched and squeezed onto surfaces. But from the point of view of the projecting camera, they look perfect.
Hidden line rendering showing the taking camera's move.
Our hybrid background technique—many individual hand-painted elements projected onto surfaces from virtual cameras (like slide projectors) for a completely hand-painted 3d stage. Brilliant work by Shinji Kimura and CG lead Takuma Sakamoto.
#鉄コン #AmerBeton #anime #アニメ #松本大洋 #TaiyoMatsumoto #木村真二
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
why did it take this long for someone to tell me that A+B is halfway between A and B in homogeneous coordinates?? now I want to properly look into this instead of just tossing in a w = 0 or w = 1 every now and then when transforming stuff
nice vfx optimization in re9: the raindrop particles are mapped to a single tri rather than a quad
Imagine getting into work and finding that one of the programmers on your game had made this! He was supposed to be implementing a system for players to save their games, but instead we got this.
Please never change, Ross Lazerbeam.💖
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #animation #proceduralanimation
the watch has blanka and guile to the left and right of the screen on the outer part of the watch. three small yellow buttons are below the tiny screen. text: street fighter II game watch 9.99 pounds+p&p fight your way to the top against the toughest fighters from around the globe. there is only one goal with this arcade action wrist watch!
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I accidentally made a horror game!
NaNs happen randomnly when looking at large depth differences. Due to spatial-temporal denoising they spread, and they spread faster with lots of camera movement.
The only way to escape is to quickly find an uninfected part of the screen and zoom in.
hearing AI company CEOs excitedly telling you how "we can now all finally become managers" without blinking makes me want to pack my bags and move to the moon
I just learned that 'Crow Country' was made by the same people who did the novel Nintendo-published Co-Op game 'Snipperclips' and that really surprised me
Vulkan releases game engine tutorial
The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development.
Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul...
#vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine
I think the new chunk-based water simulation is almost done! Still need to deactivate stale chunks & update the lower LODs, but the base sim works perfectly now, integrated with water bodies created by the world generator.
#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
As demonstrated on that giant enemy crab
One cool thing about having procedural legs is that I can move the character and have it automagically animate the positions. #nechromia
The Khronos Group is aiming to standardize Gaussian splatting by proposing a release candidate for an integration into the widely adopted glTF 3D format:
a figure on a cup
expressive fish and frog on a jar
long necked birds on jar
panels depicting figures doing planting and harvesting on a jar
the ancient andean peoples were amazing cartoonists
My friend Joe started an independent game publisher! He was formerly on the publishing side at Bethesda and is very passionate about Good Video Games created by good humans (NoQuarter takes a hard stance against AI). Well worth a follow!
TIL: There were different GPUs between earlier + later PS1 models that resulted in noticeably different graphics.
NPCs adapting their sitting poses to the furniture.
One benefit of enabling foot IK for sitting animations is that sometimes the NPCs will unexpectedly adapt their foot positions to the quirks of the furniture in really organic looking ways.
#gamedev #indiegame
Not sure if everyone who played Goldeneye is aware but buried in settings is an option to use 2 N64 controllers as “dual stick”, left for movement right for aiming, and you can still use the Z trigger underneath for shooting
why do character design when you can just slap googly eyes on something
A screenshot from Noby Noby Boy, a PlayStation 3 game by Keita Takahashi. The screenshot features a multi-coloured caterpillar type creature with a dog sitting on top of it, as well as a man standing atop another dog behind him, and an abundance of odd creatures in the background
Keita Takahashi (Katamari, Wattam, Noby Noby Boy) has moved back to Japan, and says he may be forced to quit the games industry due to To a T underperforming.
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
A CRT TV screenie of the Museum part of Ms. Pac-Man with a polygonal lawn, fence, and tree, with a yellow pac-man head shaped house.
Inside the house, Ms. Pac-Man with long, long legs and a short legged dog with a bulbous pac-dog
Namco Museum Vol 3 teaches us that Pac-Man lives in a giant version of his head with his long-legged wife and Pac-Dog.
Microsoft unleashes Zork I-III source code • The Register share.google/FAJa1nUm5SqX...
Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!
Minecraft added a new splash text to celebrate Kurtjmac walking to the farlands! Becoming one of the very few players to be officially recognized this way!
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Strict upgrade. Always do it.
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