GameDev News - Week Ending December 8, 2017
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
* Unity 5.6.4p4 / 2017.2.0p4 * Unity 2017.3.0f2 * Azure Event Hubs and Mobile Apps SDKs * Foliage Optimization in Unity * Create your own animated emojis with Unity * Deconstructed: ADAM (1,2,3,4) * Introducing ML-Agents v0.2: Curriculum Learning, new environments, and more - MonoGame
* Azure Event Hubs and Mobile Apps Samples - VR/AR
* Introducing Rift Core 2.0—Our Biggest Software Update Yet! - Microsoft
* MSVC code optimizer improvements in Visual Studio 2017 versions 15.5 and 15.3 * Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview * C++17 Feature Removals And Deprecations - Other
* Develop November - December: Community Driven (last issue) * Camera Logic in a 2D Platformer * Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers * Postmortem: Mimimi's Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun * Game Dev Tycoon iOS Release: Day 1 Report - A Rough Start * 3D using bitblting in Windows
- Unity
- Industry News
- Other
* Google Play has named its Best Games of 2017 * Ex-King staffers net $2.2M to form new multiplayer-focused mobile studio * Capcom announces Mega Man 11 and a host of re-releases * Nintendo brings Wii and GameCube titles to Nvidia Shield in China * YouTube to be pulled from Amazon Fire TV * Apple market share dips following late release of iPhone X * Citing volatile value, Steam drops Bitcoin support * PlayStation 4 has sold over 70 million units worldwide * The Game Awards winners for 2017 crowned
- Other
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting