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fuzzy logic in games

Implementing fuzzy logic to bring AI characters alive in Unity based 3D games

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Fuzzy logic is a fantastic way to represent the rules of your game in a more nuanced way. Perhaps more so than other concepts,...
fuzzy logic in games

Building C++ game play engines in finite state machine pattern [Tutorial]

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One of the most important aspect of game development is creating game states which helps in different tasks like controlling game flows, managing different...
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Unity switches to WebAssembly as the output format for the Unity WebGL build target

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With the launch of Unity 2018.2 release last month, Unity is finally making the switch to WebAssembly as their output format for the Unity...

Textures in Blender

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Procedural Textures vs. Bitmap Textures Blender has basically two types of textures, which are procedural textures and bitmap textures. Each one has both positive and...

Development Tricks with Unreal Engine 4

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In this article by Benjamin Carnall, the author of Unreal Engine 4 by Example, we will look at some development tricks with Unreal Engine 4. (For more...
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macOS gets RPCS3 and Dolphin using Gfx-portability, the Vulkan portability implementation for non-Rust apps

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The Vulkan Portability implementation, gfx-portability allows non-Rust applications that use Vulkan to run with ease. After improving the functionality of gfx-portability’s Metal backend through benchmarking...

Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and Virtual Reality projects

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This is an exciting time to be a game developer. New technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are here and growing...
AI for games

CraftAssist: An open-source framework to enable interactive bots in Minecraft by Facebook researchers

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Two days ago, researchers from Facebook AI Research published a paper titled “CraftAssist: A Framework for Dialogue-enabled Interactive Agents”. The authors of this research...
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Bitbucket to no longer support Mercurial, users must migrate to Git by May 2020

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Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after May 2020. Bitbucket, owned...

C++, SFML, Visual Studio, and Starting the first game

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In this article by John Horton, author of the book, Beginning C++ Game Programming, we will waste no time in getting you started on...

Must Read in Game Dev

Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and...

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This is an exciting time to be a game developer. New technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are here and growing...

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