Tag: Video Game Design

Creative Bloq April 29, 2025

How Blades of Fire flies in the face of modern video game aesthetics

MercurySteam’s Enric Álvarez reveals how Frank Frazetta and Gustave Doré have influenced this new PS5 game. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 28, 2025

Crafting the imaginative, evolving environments of Guild Wars 2 "affords us so much creativity"

ArenaNet’s Tami Foote explains why making game art for this iconic MMO is a joy. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 25, 2025

How the new fantasy world of video game Absolum was created in collaboration with an animation studio

Supamonks’ Maxime Mary discusses comic influences and the challenge of merging animation and game design. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 24, 2025

The Midnight Walk is a 'cosy' stop-motion horror game completely made by hand

Indie devs Moonhood’s Klaus Lyngeled and Olov Redman have 3D scanned hundreds of hand-crafted models. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 23, 2025

How the Guild Wars 2 game art team overcome technical limitations to craft character art with heart

“Players can feel the love and care that goes into everything we do,” says lead character designer Adam Hogseth. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 21, 2025

How Tempest Rising uses Unreal Engine 5 to channel the heart of '90s strategy games without "losing its soul"

It’s a balancing act, shares game director Frederick Schreiber. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 17, 2025

Experience the future of graphics – Nvidia's Unreal Engine 5 RTX neural rendering demo is now free for all

The Zorah tech demo pushes the boundaries of real-time path tracing. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 17, 2025

How indie rhythm game Unbeatable takes inspiration from Dreamcast and early 90s anime with its stylish hand-drawn animation

Art director Andrew Tsai on the appeal of a style that embraces limitations. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 17, 2025

Ubisoft's free colour blindness tool is a gift for game developers

Open-source Chroma can help make games more accessible for thousands of people. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 16, 2025

New Unity tech hits 300,000 multiplayer count

Quark Multiplayer is powering past the game engine’s player limits. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 15, 2025

Fed up waiting for Titanfall 3? This indie dev made a prototype game in Unreal Engine just 10 days

Titanfall meets The Finals in this stunning gamplay demo. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 15, 2025

I played Capcom Fighting Collection 2 for a week: here's why we need this frenzied '90s game art style to make a comeback

This retro game collection packs a visual punch. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 15, 2025

Solo developer reveals how Unreal Engine powered his strikingly realistic photography game

Epic Games’ ecosystem was the catalyst for the Lushfoil Photography Sim. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 11, 2025

Switching from Unity to Unreal Engine just got easier with free video tutorials

Epic Games is appealing directly to disgruntled Unity users. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 11, 2025

How Tanuki: Pon's Summer infuses its art style with the aesthetic of rural Japanese festivals and anime

DenkiWorks’ Liam Edwards explains why this is not just another ‘Ghibli style’ game. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 10, 2025

You've never heard of Nex Playground, but it's one of the most interestingly designed games consoles out there

The Apple-like design and a focus on motion control makes this tiny cube unique. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 10, 2025

“It's staggeringly simple” – this coding tool is ideal for artists looking to break into game development

Arco game artist and indie dev Max Cahill explains why Lua and the LÖVE engine are a great combo. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 10, 2025

Bionic Bay dev and artist Juhana Myllys tells me he wants to make games that look "timeless"

Pixel art can be more than a hit of nostalgia. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 9, 2025

This beautiful indie game just beat AAAs to win Best Artistic Achievement at the BAFTAs

Have you played Neva yet? Source link

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Creative Bloq April 8, 2025

Bungie's art director explains Marathon's controversial art style

Wipeout meets Ghost in the Shell in the new game’s ‘graphic realism’. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 8, 2025

These are the 4 best AI generators for game art, according to pros

Midjourney doesn’t make the list. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 7, 2025

Fans are torn over the vibrant colours and glitchy UI art style of Bungie's new Marathon game

Could Marathon revive the hero shooter genre? Source link

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Creative Bloq April 4, 2025

How two artists became devs and made asses.masses that blurs gaming and theatre

Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim created a live collaboration game with no previous coding experience. Source link

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Creative Bloq April 4, 2025

The decades-old Doom 3 engine proves perfectly suited to new indie game Skin Deep

Dev Brendon Chung explains why old “laser-focused” tech still matters. Source link

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