Unreal 5.4 is out!

And today is release day for Phantom Fury developed by Slipgate Ironworks and published by 3D Realms. The game will be releasing in a few hours. The original Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint, LLC. to great reception and sales. Interesting to see if Slipgate can do the same, an observation is that...

A few words from our minister of culture Jakob Engel-Schmidt.

No time to drop by the jam this year but there are entries here:

Nordic Game Jam 2024 entries
https://itch.io/jam/nordic-game-jam-2024/entries

DK project spotting (Still early days) https://www.gameexplorersclub.com/images/logo.jpg The Game Explorers Club was founded in January 2024 by Anders Antoft with the aim of establishing a small and focused game company to gather a group to embark on their first expedition and develop the game Qaana...

So more big restructuring news from Embracer EMBRACER GROUP ANNOUNCES ITS INTENTION TO TRANSFORM INTO THREE STANDALONE PUBLICLY LISTED ENTITIES AT NASDAQ STOCKHOLM INSIDE INFORMATION: The Board of Directors of Embracer Group AB (“Embracer Group”) today announces a transformative step for value creat...

After a longer break of about 3 years, Danish youtube gamedev tutorial star Brackeys (Asbjørn Thirslund) is back to his 1.7 million subscribers. Known for a long series of Unity tutorials. However now.. the focus is Godot. I guess he mostly sticks to himself and his youtube audience, as I have never...

Nice to see some of the previously mentioned gaussian splatting techniques running at very interactive frame rates in a browser. So far it's just static 3D scenes, not optimal for most games just yet. Still impressive tech that is far better at capturing more 'fuzzy details' aswell as shading inform...

DK (mainly, Those Eyes) and Canadian (Tobo) project Mouse & Crane will be releasing for Nintendo Switch and mobile later this year. A kids game with co-op elements. Btw. Trine Laier released a book some years ago with the characters Mus & Kran. Which now got their own game. Assuming the Canadian lin...

Great development video of Fable. Certainly not with out challenges.

DK project spotting: 'Hemlock' a side project solodeveloped by Joachim Brüel Gerber.

Very possibly a demo will be dropping soon.

Unreal Engine 5.4 Sneak Peek | GDC 2024

DK (related) surprise release! Dungeons_of_Alethrion Published by Skjald Aps. Formed by the former co-founder of the animation studio Sun-Creature Studio where the animated series 'Tales of Alethrion originated. (Edit: Technically the project originated at the Animation Workshop in Viborg naturally)...

Todays sad view from the office. :cry: The smoke from the Børsen fire. An absolutely iconic and beautiful 400 year old building I have been visiting a few times over the years. Adding: The first time back in circa 1990 for Amiga Expo! This also means that Copenhagen MatchUp 2024 set in April 29-30th...

Latest update from Hutlithut and Void Crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtsPKHnV5HU And also an interview in Danish with CinderCat Games Verdens første first-person booter har været i Amerika! Arkaden besøger CinderCat Games https://arkaden.dk/verdens-foerste-first-person-booter-har-vaeret-i-amer...

Optimizing a voxel engine.. pretty neat!

Github link here
https://github.com/vercidium-patreon/meshing

I Optimised My Game Engine Up To 12000 FPS

HOW CREATING A SPINOFF FOR A HOT GENRE LEAD TO SUCCESS FOR DEEP ROCK GALACTIC SURVIVOR Success metrics Last month, the developers behind the Deep Rock Galactic Survivor (DRG:S) announced that they sold over 1,000,000 copies of their game since its February Launch. DRG:S is an survivor-like (aka act...

https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F740276999%2F284382194499%2F1%2Foriginal.20240410-133457?w=940&auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&rect=0%2C0%2C2160%2C1080&s=9b593a16b9e11666d19c327c3277df38 C++ Talk & Meetup @IOI Copenhagen Thursday, April 25 https://www.eventbrite.dk/...

So there is a new initiative in town to show off indie games to a wider audience. It's called the Triple-i Initative. Forned by a lot of devs and publishers operating in the space. Among them Ghost Ship Publishing. Two DK games are on display in the round. What the Car and Dino Lords. Lots of really...

Really cool tech btw. Let's see if one of our local studios can match or surpass this.

Inside Kingmakers - 2024's Biggest Gaming Surprise So Far

We have all seen the amazing work that has been going on on Nanite in Unreal Engine 5.x The recent addition with displacement mapping in 5.4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y7mkgp4_eg The future version of Unreal Engine 5.5 seems to have Nanite support for skeletal meshes in the pipeline. VERY coo...

DK Steam Early Access release from some time ago, Card Battle Simulator developed by Nordic Softworks ApS

Not a single negative review so far! Very good!

An update on the Embracer situation. The restructuring program should have been done by end of March. So that's great it's finally coming to an end and the developers can relax a bit and work on some cool games! :) Locally the most effected gamedev studios were Campfire Cabal who got the big axe and...

Frayed a free survival game developed in Aarhus by Dream Jam Games will be releasing in a few short hours.

More nostalgia from the Amiga days.. this time the little known hidden messages inside the games where the developers was (mostly) trash talking the crackers. Great banter and fun stuff!