Initial blockout in the level tool. The tool can transform the blockout into several styles, like those below. © Pixel Maniacs Development In Development: Level Tools for Pixel Maniac's ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Subotron campus Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024 Nominates Five Student Team Finalists Five student teams have been selected to compete in the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024. They will now receive a mentoring by Rami Ismail, before they pitch their games in front of a live international jury on 22 November. The finalists of the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024 have been By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The marketplace Fab.com is scheduled to launch in mid-October. © Screenshop Unreal Engine Blog Development Epic Games Launches Fab Marketplace in Mid-October At GDC 2023, Epic Games announced that it would be merging all of its asset stores under one brand: Fab. A year ago, the launch of Fab was delayed. Now, the marketplace is scheduled to launch in mid-October. It was an ambitious project that was supposed to make it much By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© BusinessWire Development Unity Kills The Runtime Fee In a blog post, Unity CEO Matt Bromberg announces that the controversial runtime fee will finally be scrapped. Exactly one year after its launch, the question remains whether Unity will ever fully regain the trust of developers. On 12 September 2023, Unity announced the end of the Unity Plus subscription By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Last year's Africa Games Week took place in Cape Town as well. © Africa Games Week events Africa Games Week in Cape Town Takes Place in December At the start of the Southern Hemisphere's summer months, Africa Games Week comes to Cape Town from 2-4 December 2024. The event aims to foster understanding of Africa’s gaming scene internationally in its seventh year. Africa Games Week, the continent's most important games industry event By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© nordmedia Development nordmedia Funds Three Games With 234,630 Euros Digital Cauldron from Marklohe, Magni Games from Braunschweig and 1000 Orks from Osnabrück profit from the current funding round at nordmedia. From the 4,7 million euros given, only about 235,000 euros go to these three game studios however. The Lower Saxony funding agency nordmedia has announced the next By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The Rabbit Indie Games Residency 2023. © Tilman Vogler Development The Rabbit Indie Games Residency 2024 The Rabbit Indie Games Residency returns with teams from Brandenburg and the Global South. During the month-long residency, the 15 selected game developers will be able to work on their games and grow as a team. The 15 participants for this year's edition of The Rabbit, the indie By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Juno Shin leads the new unit Venture Lab © Tencent Development Tencent Games Announce Venture Lab Unit at Gamescom Venture Lab will be globally headed by Juno Shin and will expand its support and capabilities to help early-game developers grow. Venture Lab was also involved in the launch of Enshrouded by German developer Keen Games. Venture Lab provides early-stage studios with the investment, expertise, tools and network they need By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
© Moonlit Monitors Development In Development: Height Mapping in Moonlit Monitor's Seed to Leaf By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
© Panic, Okomotive Development Okomotive Announces Herdling at gamescom ONL Swiss dev Okomotive behind the Far games has revealed their new title at gamescom Opening Night Live: Herdling, a game about shepherding animals, will be published by Untitled Goose Game publisher Panic. It will be playable for the first time at PAX West. Swiss game development company Okomotive behind Far: By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Ver.di main associate representatives from the Federal level supported the effort of the game worker's roundtable and demands. © GamesMarkt Development Gamedevs’ Roundtable at Ver.di Formulates Demands for Fair Conditions in the Games Industry Next to devcom, the game worker group Gamedevs’ Roundtable has held a press conference with six demands for better working conditions in the games industry. Apart from improved salaries, a collective agreement and contract standards, the group is asking for gender equality and an end to the penalisation and stigmatization By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The winners of the 2024 devcom Indie Awards. © devcom events devcom Indie Awards go to Germany, USA and Saudi Arabia At yesterday's opening dinner event for devcom, the Indie Awards have been given to four studios, among them Munich professor Christoph Minnameier for Dungeons of Dreadrock and Starvania from Saudi Arabia. The results of the speaker's survey have also been revealed. The devcom Developer Conference 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
