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ByDesign Games on Android

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:51:51 +0000

Wish to develop an Android™ game or application, only to find out that your country is not eligible to sell your app? Welcome to ByDesign Games Presents... Android :)

ByDesign Games is partnering with some of the smartest handheld development talent to bring fun games to the Android market for players around the globe. We're calling it ByDesign Games Presents...…

Artur Susdorf on Make Bouncy Bouncy

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:06:58 +0000

Jump up, jump up and get bounce. Love it. Funny game...

Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] Two More Veterans Bail On Infinity Ward

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:17:51 +0000

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward has reportedly lost two more key members of staff.

Lead animator Mark Grigsby, who has been with the studio since 2005, and lead character animator Paul Messerly, who was present at the studio’s inception, have both walked, according to Kotaku.

Unity3D News Pipe on [InfiniteUnity3D] Unity 3.0 Preview – Snapping and Marquee Selection

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:17:25 +0000

Ethan Vosburgh walks us through some of the new usability improvements coming to Unity. Plus we get to see Penelope from the iPhone Demo again.

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Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] The Friday Game: Gum Drop Celestial Frontier

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:13:11 +0000

Developer: Elbert Perez
Format: 360
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Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] Gamestation Owns 7,500 Customers’ Souls

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:12:29 +0000

7,500 online shoppers signed over more than they bargained for when they failed to opt out of an "immortal soul clause" added to the terms and conditions of retailer Gamestation’s website.

The company updated the terms of service on April Fool's Day as a joke, but did so to prove an important point, reports news:lite.

Game Industry News Pipe on [GI] Unity and PlayDead at Nordic Game 2010

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:59:10 +0000

The lead designer of the award-wining indie game Limbo and the vice president of strategy at Unity Technologies have been announced as the final conference speakers at Nordic Game 2010.
Jeppe Carlsen, lead designer at Danish developer PlayDead Studios, will give a talk explaining the design principles behind forthcoming Xbox Live Arcade game Limbo. The highly anticipated title picked up…

Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] Hawkins: Virtual Goods Market To Hit $100 Billion This Decade

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:58:40 +0000

Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins says the global market for virtual goods was worth $8 billion in 2009, but he believes that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

It’s estimated that only $1 billion worth of virtual goods were sold outside of China last year. Hawkins suggests that, with 8.5 times greater gross domestic product than China, the western world’s share…

Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] Activision Loses Round In No Doubt Lawsuit

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:58:33 +0000

Rock group No Doubt has won the latest round in its ongoing legal battle with Activision.

In November 2009, the group filed a lawsuit against the publisher over the use of its name and likeness in Band Hero, alleging that it had been transformed “into a virtual karaoke circus act” because players can perform songs using No Doubt avatars that weren’t approved…

Free Game Downloads Pipe on [BigFish] Crime and Punishment: Who Framed Raskolnikov?

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:58:18 +0000

Travel back in time with Special Agents Alex and Kat to solve one of the most famous, and heinous, crimes in literary history! Get sent back to St. Petersburg in 1866 and discover the motives behind the murder of an old woman. Dive into the world of Crime and Punishment: Who Framed Raskolnikov? and solve the case using your amazing…

ByDesign Games on Technology

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:52:59 +0000

Hi everyone. The Architectural Visualization Toolkit online demo has been updated!

Texture quality is low to result in a much smaller size (only @5MB!), also placeholder logos added.

Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] Indie Games Fund Founded

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:21:41 +0000

Star independent developers have launched a fund designed to help out small scale developers, with new projects to be announced soon.

Game Industry News Pipe on [Edge] Sony Patents ‘Degradable’ Game Demos

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:20:51 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment America has filed a patent for ‘degradable’ game demos.

The demos would offer users complete or almost complete games, but features would be removed slowly over time.

Uncovered by Silicon Era, the patent details software with customisable triggers that disable features after a set number of plays or a set amount of time.

Unity3D News Pipe on [Unity Technologies] Unity iPhone 1.6 has left the building!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:20:47 +0000

We’re happy to report that highly awaited and much discussed Unity iPhone 1.6 has been released and is available for download.

Yes, it’s exactly that mysterious build that adds generics support, enables multiplayer for iPhone and noticeably shrinks final binary size. You might have seen some trackbacks on Unity forums.

So what’s so good about it?

Now imagine that you can use all…

Unity3D News Pipe on [Unify Wiki] Accessing number of drawcalls from script

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:20:35 +0000

Summary:

By: Alex Schwartz (GTJuggler)

'''Note''' - When running in the editor, scene view cameras will be included in the draw call count!

Also, if you instantiate new objects at runtime, this script will not take those into account, so you should deal with that case manually.

'''FYI''' - This is NOT producing anything remotely like a "number of draw…