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Open vs Linear | Setting the Stakes Early On in The Outer Worlds 2

GDC Festival of Gaming highlights how The Outer Worlds 2 opens with a tightly scripted level instead of dropping players into a broad sandbox. The goal is to establish stakes, …

Video GDC Festival of Gaming · 1 week, 3 days ago
A Browser-Based Gesture-Driven Avatar Interaction Framework for Metaverse Onboarding Environments

A browser-based metaverse onboarding system now lets users move and interact as avatars with hand, arm, and head gestures instead of a controller-first setup. Built around Google MediaPipe, it pairs …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 1 month, 1 week ago
MonoGame Hub

MonoGame Foundation is building MonoGame Hub, a new launcher and project manager meant to cut the friction around starting and organizing MonoGame projects. It surfaces official templates, platform selection, resources, …

Official MonoGame · 2 months ago
Game Dev Mistake #7 - UI and UX Underfocus

UI and UX are still getting treated as polish, but that mindset can quietly sink a game. When menus, readability, feedback, and flow are underfunded, players feel friction long before …

Video Tim Ruswick · 2 months, 1 week ago
Free professional Unreal Engine courses now available on the Epic Developer Community

More than 20 Unreal Engine training courses are now free, which is a pretty useful drop for teams onboarding new hires or filling skill gaps. The catalog covers UE foundations, …

Official Unreal Engine · 3 months, 1 week ago
Beginning Game Development Guide

For newcomers, the biggest change is that getting into game dev is easier than ever, but the sheer number of free and free-to-start engines can make the first step confusing. …

Blog Gamefromscratch · 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Start building games with our new course: ‘Your First Game in Unreal Engine’

Unreal Engine is adding a beginner course that goes beyond basics and into real gameplay systems: countdowns, timers, checkpoints, and exploding mines. For teams onboarding new hires or self-taught devs, …

Official Unreal Engine · 3 months, 3 weeks ago