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Sims pioneer Will Wright is making blockchain game VoxVerse, but is down on NFTs
▻https://www.axios.com/2022/10/20/will-wright-voxverse-gala-gallium-blockchain

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Hall of fame game designer Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims) is making a blockchain video game for the masses, not for NFT shoppers, he tells Axios.

Why it matters: Wright is the biggest name in the controversial blockchain gaming sector, in which there’s an abundance of investment and player skepticism.

What they’re saying: “I’m much more interested in attracting a million free-to-play players than, you know, 10,000 rich whales, although we could use those rich whales,” Wright tells Axios, using common industry terminology for people who spend an inordinate amount of money on a game or the NFTs that just might be tied to it.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #will_wright #jeu_vidéo_the_sims #jeu_vidéo_les_sims #jeu_vidéo_simcity #nft #chaîne_de_blocs #blockchain #jeu_vidéo_voxverse #gallium_games #carmen_sandiego #lauren_elliott #unity #gala_games

Unity signs multi-million deal supporting U.S. defense initiatives
▻https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-signs-multi-million-dollar-contract-to-help-u-s-government-with

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The deal was announced less than a year after some workers questions Unity’s ethics for working on military projects.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #unity #armée #guerre #caci #applovin #ironsource

After the tech exodus, Russian state prepares to fund its own ’national game engine’ | PC Gamer
▻https://www.pcgamer.com/after-the-tech-exodus-russian-state-prepares-to-fund-its-own-national-game-

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Some of Russian tech’s heaviest hitters, including homegrown Facebook alternative VKontakte, have recently been cajoling ministers to allocate potentially billions of rubles to fund a Russian “national game engine”, per a Kommersant report. A source close to the Russian government claims that Russian tech titans are deep in talks with the Ministry of Digital Development to fund an alternative to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine, in the wake of western tech’s exodus from Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #développement #guerre #russie #ukraine #sanctions #vkontakte #sanctions #unity #unreal_engine #souverainté_numérique #anton_gorelkin #rostelecom #gazprom #amd #nvidia #jeu_vidéo_pyongyang_racer #jeu_vidéo_forza_horizon

Unity is merging with a company who made a malware installer | PC Gamer
▻https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-made-a-malware-installer

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IronSource is also well-known for another reason. It developed InstallCore, a wrapper for bundling software installations. If you’ve searched for a popular program and seen a link to a third-party site with a URL that ended in something like “downloadb.net” or “hdownload.net” it may well have been InstallCore. If you made the mistake of downloading it, you’d be offered the kind of extras with generic names like RegClean Pro and DriverSupport an unsophisticated user might click OK on, which is how you end up with a PC full of toolbars and junk that’s as slow as your parents’ is. InstallCore was obnoxious enough Windows Defender will stop it running(opens in new tab), and Malwarebytes(opens in new tab) too.

As documented by Microsoft’s chief economist for web experience, strategy, and policy Ben Edelman(opens in new tab), InstallCore was also behind a fake installer for a Windows version of Snapchat, a program that’s only ever been available on mobile. It would instead install Android emulator BlueStacks, as well as the usual injection of adware.

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The Wall Street Journal(opens in new tab) reports Unity has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for IronSource.

Développer des malwares, ça paye.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #rachat #unity #ironsource #installcore #installation #malware #bluestacks #snapchat #android #adware #réputation #eréputation #spoiled_cat #windows_defender #malwarebytes #andreia_gaita #maddy_thorson #jeu_vidéo_celeste #supersonic #tapjoy #publicité #unity_ads #weta_digital

Unity’s Riccitiello and Whitten speak on the ironSource merger | Pocket Gamer.biz | PGbiz
▻https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger

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Implementing monetisation earlier in the process and conversation is certainly an angle that has seen pushback from some developers.

Riccitiello: Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.

I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that. It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand. That model is baked into the philosophy of a lot of artforms and medium, and it’s one I am deeply respectful of; I know their dedication and care.

But this industry divides people between those who still hold to that philosophy and those who massively embrace how to figure out what makes a successful product. And I don’t know a successful artist anywhere that doesn’t care about what their player thinks. This is where this cycle of feedback comes back, and they can choose to ignore it. But to choose to not know it at all is not a great call.

I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour. Sometimes, you wouldn’t even notice the product difference between a massive success and tremendous fail, but for this tuning and what it does to the attrition rate. There isn’t a developer on the planet that wouldn’t want that knowledge.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #marketing #développement #Unity #ironsource #john_riccitiello #unity_create #marc_whitten #c_sharp #programmation #monétisation #licenciements #tomer_bar-zeev #pandémie #covid-19 #weta_digital

Unity and ironSource announce merger | Pocket Gamer.biz | PGbiz
▻https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/79185/unity-and-ironsource-announce-merger

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Unity Software has announced a merger with ironSource, a leading app economy software firm. Unity aim of utilising IronSource’s tools, platform, technology, and talent to form an end-to-end platform that allows creators to more easily create, run, monetise, and scale live games and real-time 3D content.

ironSource’s technology is used in many leading games, as well as non-gaming apps, for monetisation, marketing, analytics, and discovery, and Unity hopes that the ironSource enhancements for Unity Operate Solutions will yield immediate benefits for creators and build robust businesses, particularly in regards to monetisation.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #rachat #unity #ironsource #monétisation #développement #marketing

Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers [Update]
▻https://kotaku.com/sources-unity-laying-off-hundreds-of-staffers-1849125482

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Layoffs have afflicted Unity’s offices across the globe. Sources tell Kotaku that pretty much every corner of the company has taken some sort of hit, though there’s a concentration in the AI and engineering departments. On Blind, the anonymous messaging board commonly used by employees in the tech industry, Unity staffers say that roughly 300 or 400 people have been let go, and that layoffs are still ongoing. Kotaku’s sources have said the same.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #unity #ressources_humaines #business #finance #licenciements #ia #développement #weta #peter_jackson #film_avatar #film_lord_of_the_rings #parsec #john_riccitiello #ea #electronic_arts #ipo #sec #securities_and_exchange_commision

Unity Workers Question Company Ethics As It Expands From Video Games to War
▻https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d4jy/unity-workers-question-company-ethics-as-it-expands-from-video-games-to-war

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Unity, the popular game making tool, has long been used in industries outside of video games. Unity’s site celebrates this versatility, saying its technology offers “incredible possibilities” for film, engineering, architecture, automotive, transportation, and more. 

Unity’s site also proudly lists its technology being used by the government and military, but internal Unity documents obtained by Waypoint show the company is struggling to explain why its employees, who supposedly signed up to create tools that empower game makers, are now directly or inadvertently developing technologies for militaries with the stated objectives of fighting wars.

Dans sa quête de développement en dehors du jeu vidéo, Unity s’intéresse au marché militaire, au grand damne de salariés peu à l’aise à l’idée de travailler pour l’armée. Parmi les usages développés pour le compte de l’armée ou par l’armée elle-même figurent l’IA, des simulations de physique et de théâtres d’opérations.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #unity #armée #guerre #développement #unreal_engine #jeu_vidéo_hollow_knight #jeu_vidéo_hearthstone #étique #schlumberger

Game engine, meet game streaming : Unity acquires Parsec for $320M | Ars Technica
▻https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/game-engine-meet-game-streaming-unity-acquires-parsec-for-320m

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The parent company of Unity, one of the most popular game development engines in the world, has made arguably its biggest acquisition of another gaming company yet. The deal, announced on Tuesday, sees Unity taking control of Parsec, a peer-to-peer game-streaming protocol. The acquisition is valued at $320 million.

Unity Technologies, éditeur du moteur de jeux vidéo Unity, acquiert Parsec, éditeur d’une solution de travail à distance à destination de développeurs de jeux vidéo. L’article contextualise cette acquisition en distinguant cette solution à destination des professionnels des solutions de jeu en streaming grand public.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #unity #unity_technologies #parsec #business #acquisition #bureau_à_distance #remote_desktop #streaming #google_stadia #nvidia_geforce_now #ubisoft #jeu_vidéo_immortals_fenyx_rising #valve #steam_remote_play #epic_games #psyonix #mediatonic

Unity Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Parsec | Business Wire
▻https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005116/en/Unity-Enters-Into-Agreement-to-Acquire-Parsec

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Parsec’s technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere

Le moteur de jeu Unity acquiert le développeur Parsec proposant des solutions de bureau à distance à destination des développeurs de jeux vidéo.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #unity #unity_technologies #parsec #business #développement #streaming #remote_desktop #bureau_à_distance #acquisition #marc_whitten #chris_dickson #benjy_boxer #electronic_arts #ea #ubisoft #square_enix

Gamasutra - Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles
▻https://gamasutra.com/view/news/386242/Going_forward_Unity_devs_will_need_Unity_Pro_to_publish_on_consoles.php

In late June, Unity quietly updated its licensing policy requirements for developers working on “closed platforms” like Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Google Stadia.

Unity developers starting new projects will now need either a Unity Pro license or a Preferred Platform License Key to develop for these platforms.

Certains développeurs consoles utilisant le moteur de jeu Unity devront débourser au moins $1800 par an et par utilisateur pour démarrer un nouveau projet à destination des consoles de jeux vidéo. Jusqu’ici, une licence gratuite était suffisante. Les développeurs ne semblent pas s’en inquiéter, certaines de ces licences étant déjà fournies par les consoliers.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #jeu_vidéo_unity #unity #licence #consoles #jeu_vidéo_consoles #business #développement #développement_informatique #jeu_vidéo_console_xbox #jeu_vidéo_console_playstation #jeu_vidéo_console_switch #sony #microsoft #nintendo #google

[Fade to Pleasure ] #80.2 feat #snooba
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a mechanical treat of bleep, driving rhythms & buffed-out nu-beat numbers positioning itself well with weird tacteel, spirit & tribe.

*Archillect illustration & photography source

Broadcasted & hosted by Snooba on Panik (Brussels-Be) Grenouille (Marseille) Canal B (Rennes-Fr) C’rock (Vienne-Fr) Diversité FM (Dijon-Fr) Louiz Radio (Belgique-Louvain la neuve) You FM (Mons-Be) Woot (Marseille) Campus FM (Toulouse-FR)

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!sooks era

Key elements moring boom

Sunken ft Joseph Efi Lifted To The Sky

Minus 8 feat Virag Life (Original Version)

Midlife Rare Air (Apiento Vocal)

Hiro Ama Anaesthetic

The Orielles Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme) (Wrongtom’s Dub Rhumba)

Aiwaska Medicine (Eelke Kleijn Remix) (Exploited Ghetto)

Paso Doble & MasterShine feat. Idd Aziz Tishiki (...)

#mix #mixtape #deep #indie_dance #letfield #amalgam #unity #mix,snooba,mixtape,deep,indie_dance,letfield,amalgam,unity
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Ubuntu’s Unity Desktop Lives On — in Anime!
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-desktop-appears-in-anime

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The Unity desktop is no longer the jewel in Ubuntu’s crown, but the much-loved shell is still out there, sparkling. And no, I don’t just mean on the desktops of those still running Ubuntu 16.04 […] This post, Ubuntu’s Unity Desktop Lives On — in Anime!, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Gli investimenti di #Google nei cavi #Internet sottomarini

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Il colosso di #Mountain_View è attivo in questo settore dal 2008, quando iniziò la costruzione del cavo #Unity tra Usa e Giappone entrato in servizio nel 2010. Tra il 2019 e il 2021 diverranno attivi altre nove infrastrutture, portando a 14 il totale dei cavi controllati da Google.

Come si vede dalla mappa, le due principali rotte dei dati solcano il Pacifico e il Nord Atlantico. Con il Nordamerica al centro, i cavi allacciano le coste orientali dell’Asia e l’Europa, le due estremità più decisive per il controllo dell’Eurasia, perno della grande strategia degli Stati Uniti.

I progetti di Google sono diventati d’improvvisa attualità strategica quando si è diffusa la notizia che il dipartimento di Giustizia Usa intende bloccare un progetto ormai quasi completato, il Pacific Light Cable Network (Plcn), indicato nella carta con il numero 3. Lunga circa 8 mila chilometri e costata quasi 300 milioni di dollari, l’infrastruttura collega Los Angeles e Hong Kong ed è finanziata, oltre che da Google, da Facebook e da Dr. Peng, il quarto operatore nelle telecomunicazioni di Cina.

▻http://www.limesonline.com/carta-cavi-sottomarini-internet-google-cina-pacific-light-cable-network-hong-kong/114061
#câbles_sous-marins #cartographie #visualisation #infrastructure
ping @fil

A Common Mistake That Will End Your Game Development Dreams Before They Even Begin
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-common-mistake-that-will-end-your-game-development-dreams-before-they-

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A Common Mistake That Will End Your Game Development Dreams Before They Even Begin (And How To Avoid It)I have a good friend that I am going call Sam for this post. And Sam has a really bad habit: he just can’t stick with one thing that he is trying to do.He starts his diet and talks about it with passion and dedication. He keeps up with it for a month and starts getting results… but after that you see Sam eating unhealthy food, cheats on his diet and gets back to the same old ways.And he has problems like these for everything in life. Recently I gave him some advice about how he can start his online business and what he needs to do to get started.He was so pumped up he bought the equipment he needs, and he set everything up. He tried working for one month and guess what happened… he (...)

#game-development #games #game-design #coding #unity3d

#Unity4J : Christine Assange lance un appel d’urgence
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/unity4j-christine-assange-lance-un-appel-durgence

How to Build Realtime Updating Leaderboards in #unity
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-realtime-updating-leaderboards-in-unity-1f30545af17a?source

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Why Leaderboards?Leaderboards are one of the oldest social features in video games that are used to increase the level of competition amongst players. Global scoreboards generate longer gameplay times and appeal to the majority of player segments. In addition, leaderboards help increase player engagement and retention by motivating them to achieve a higher rank. If a player slips down in the ranks, they will usually try to re-assert their position at the top.You can build leaderboards that update in realtime by using #pubnub. Realtime scorekeeping is important since it gives users instant feedback which increases gamer satisfaction.Setting Up UnityTo start out, check out my GitHub and clone/download the repo. If you don’t already have Unity installed, install it here. The repo contains an (...)

#game-development #gaming #indie-game-development

The Match-up: SceneKit or #unity for ARKit?
▻https://hackernoon.com/scenekit-or-unity-for-arkit-3fa3566d4d32?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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The Match-upLast night a coworker of mine, Sonam Dhingra, gave a great talk about some of the basics of ARKit, and touched on some of the more advanced topics like touch handling on 3D objects and blend shapes. Having done AR in production for the past year at Nike (see ▻https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/23/nike-snkrs-ios-app-augmented-reality-exclusive and ▻https://www.digitaltrends.com/outdoors/inside-s23nyc-the-digital-studio-keeping-nikes-tech-relevant), a lot of people came up to us last night after the talk to ask about some of the pain points in working with ARKit and SceneKit and whether a 3D engine like Unity is better suited for their purposes. I made a mental note of some of those questions and decided to write about how I reach a decision about which framework to use.What they (...)

#augmented-reality #apple #game-development #ios

How to implement 2D isometric view in Unity
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-implement-2d-isometric-view-in-unity-7717d4914eee?source=rss----3

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Our Pushy & Pully game has some isometric view in place. If you still don’t know the game let me show you an screenshot:Main game area (not the final sprites)As you can see the view is something in between top down and with a certain angle. More like a front isometric camera. But Unity for 2D only has only a “normal” ortogonal camera. There’s no way (that I know) that you can indicate to the camera that what you want is an isometric. So we had to fix this in code.How drawing objects workFirst thing to understand is that we generate the level at runtime after reading the level definition from a file. So we have to draw every object and the order matters. As a general rule in 2D games the last object you draw will be visible on top of the previous ones.The Unity way: layersIn Unity you can (...)

#game-development #programming #gamedev #unity3d #indie-game

Ces milliardaires et multinationales qui investissent dans la quête d’immortalité et de jeunesse éternelle
▻https://www.bastamag.net/Ces-milliardaires-et-multinationales-qui-investissent-dans-la-quete-d

Des start-up se lancent dans des transfusions de sang de patients jeunes vers des personnes plus âgées dans le but de prolonger la vie. Des grandes fortunes ou des multinationales, comme Google-Alphabet, investissent dans des biotechnologies pour identifier les gènes de longévité et ralentir le vieillissement. D’autres mènent des expérimentations pour dupliquer le cerveau dans des machines. L’industrie de la cryoconservation – congeler un organisme en attendant un hypothétique remède contre la mort – (...)

#Alphabet #Apple #DGSE #Google_Calico #Palantir #Google #Facebook #Paypal #biométrie #génétique #solutionnisme #HumanLongevity #Amazon #UnityBiotechnology #Ambrosia (...)

##Alkahest

Harmony still most popular political party in Latvia, Unity’s rating up | News | LETA
▻http://www.leta.lv/eng/home/important/133A1EB0-6D1D-D5C9-1107-E26E1F8C6240

The Unity party managed to increase its popularity rating in September, raising it above the 5-percent electoral threshold while the Harmony remained the most popular political party in Latvia, according to the results of the public opinion poll carried out by SKDS pollster as reported by the Panorama evening news program of the public Latvian Television on Monday.
If the general elections were held in September, Harmony would get 19.6 percent of votes, up from 18 percent in August.

#Latvia #Municipal_Elections_2017 #Harmony #Unity

Interactive 3D maps in #Unity | #Mapbox
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The environments generated with Mantle are based on real-time map data from every city and place in the world. From 3D terrain and buildings, to land use like parks and beaches, to showing the streets and bridges - every detail in a city can now be loaded into Unity and styled there using Mantle.

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The new plugin uses soon to be released Mapbox tilesets specifically designed for gaming. These new tilesets contain compressed elevation data and building heights. Just like the the vector tiles that power Mapbox Streets they are super light for fast loading and updated minutely. As a city changes, levels can be updated from fresh data, letting developers model their own game environment based on the latest maps.

#jeux_vidéo #cartographie_immersive

Survey shows significant support only to few parties in Latvia

In June 16,1% of voters would vote for partie ’’Zaļo un zemnieku savienība’’ (Green and farmers union); 14,4% would vote for ’’Saskaņa’’ (Harmony), while 6,6% would vote for ’’Nacionālā apvienība’’ (National Alliance). Support for Green and farmers union and Harmony has decreased in comparison with May, but it has increased a bit for National Aliance.
Extremely low support is for ’’Vienotība’’ (Unity) - it was 4,1% in May, and 5,7% in June.
Unity gained 23 seats in the last elections, which was the second largest amount after Harmony with 24 seats.
Large part of voters have not decided what they would vote for - 31,9%.

▻http://www.diena.lv/latvija/politika/junija-kritusies-saskanas-un-zzs-popularitate-pieaug-atbalsts-vienotibai-14145
Jūnijā kritusies partijas Saskaņa un Zaļo un zemnieku savienības (ZZS) popularitāte, savukārt partijas Vienotība reitings mēneša laikā ir pieaudzis, liecina “Latvijas faktu” jūnijā veiktā aptauja.
Atbildot uz jautājumu, par kuru partiju balsotu Saeimas vēlēšanās, 16,1% respondentu norādīja, ka atbalstītu ZZS, 14,4% - Saskaņu, bet 6,6% - Nacionālā apvienību (NA).

#Latvia #Parties #Elections2018 #Unity #Harmony

Glory for sense
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-sense

God gives us a sense of place. In his eternal plan, everything and everyone fits into his will. We do not know all the details, nor do we need to know, but the sovereign Lord holds all within his hand. He has tied us to himself, for our good. We have purpose, fulfillment, joy, reward, […]

#God_and_faith #Give_Glory #God #Unity #universe #wholeness

Accept one another
►http://randalmatheny.com/accept

Romans 15.7: All of this is done on behalf of God’s truth.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #mutual_acceptance #Romans #Unity