Tim Fox on LinkedIn: #zelda #zelda2d #zeldagb #gamedev #gamemaker #gamedevelopment | 14 comments (2024)

That's a wrap! Brainstorm Connection Day 2 is officially over and that was a blast! 😁That was an explosion of information and just the tips I needed. I was able to see some old friends and meet some new friends. One friend I've known for 12 years when we met taking classes at Art Center At Night. There were amazing live demos, lunch, raffle, and the Q&A had great advice. I have so many thoughts I have to think about and process.There were new techniques, software, even a new tablet brand I need to get now. Today's lineup was incredible with James Paick, Norris Lin, Joon Ahn, and Sinix!It was incredible to network, be with the legends, catch up with friends and meet like minded people. This was a really impactful experience for me. I heard advice that is just what I needed to hear several times over.#brainstorm #brainstormschool #industrymixer #brainstormconnection #art #artcareer #gamedev #gamedevelopment #design #conceptart

I'm at Brainstorm Connection today! This is at Haven City Market in Rancho Cucamonga. This is an awesome two day workshop consisting of live demos and Q&A with an industry networking mixer hosted by Brainstorm School.We have presentations from John Park, Steve Michael Hampton, Ehsan Bigloo, Airi Pan, James Paick, Norris Lin, Joon Ahn, and Sinix!#gamedev #brainstorm #brainstormschool #brainstormschoolonline #gamedevelopment #workshops #indie #conceptart #worldbuilding #networking #lookingforwork #environmentdesign #characterdesign #design #art #artmixer

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I was the first to get my Xbox Aurora bundle in the office so I rocked the shirt all day 😜 We've been waiting a while for this one. This is to celebrate the partnership between Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard King.I started at Activision in 2009 as a night shift tester on Wolfenstein. I came back for Vanguard and it's been an incredible journey. It's insane to have my name in the credits of iconic IP such as Crash Bandicoot and Wolf.Now it's jaw dropping to realize that I have a @ Microsoft email 🤣 I get nostalgic and I love the history of these companies and having a part in it has childhood Tim screaming in excitement.#xbox #activision #microsoft #gamedev #qa

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I've been tinkering away on some tech. I'm implementing Universal Scene Description into my game engine. It's a work in progress but I'm excited to share what I'm trying to accomplish here.Informed and inspired by GIS principles and data, I'm building the world of my game dynamically and systematically. I'll be utilizing USD as the file format for so many reasons. the obvious is interoperability, it maintains the whole structure across all DCC. I have World Machine creating a tiled terrain world at scale and controlled by my CDCI pipeline. Exporting tiles of the world with massive amounts of detail and data. For urban areas and dungeons I can use custom attributes to put BSP inside USD! I can have the layers and properties of USD have world states with nondestructive layering. Spline data, roads, alpha maps, river data, plant and clutter points all generated by World Machine in USD and gltf. I can also put BSP in gltf using extensions.In development I can treat my USD like a map file and build my assets in a native format for release. I'll also be working on being able to take my games scene graph and export it to USD to be used in other software and have a complete loop there. I'm incredibly excited to be expanding my games capabilities. This is only scratching the surface of what I have going on.#gis #usd #aura #auraonline #gamedesign #worldbuilding #gamedev

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More about Aura Online: I've integrated ChatGPT with my game as a module. I also have a Discord module. A major contention in my development has been around my event systems. There are two kinds of event systems going on here, an Event Driven Architecture where event emitters detect, gather, and transfer events, while event consumers react to these events, and a scheduler that executes Data-Driven Architecture for seasonal events and reoccurring events or otherwise scheduled events. I've been experimenting with message queueing which will ultimately be the solution but I'm working with CRON heavily in this prototype phase. As part of this schedule, I have a Message of the Day broadcasted to the game and Discord every morning at 7 am. This is a call to action, invite players back into the game and also mention anything noteworthy. This is a generative AI point, where I have the option to recycle MoTDs and create novel ones on the fly. Every day a horoscope is generated! I have a whole zodiac and astrology system implemented into my game. This mirrors Earth and also has my lore and zodiacs as part of my game's fantasy story. These zodiacs influence gameplay and other aspects of the world for immersion because this game is magical after all. And every Friday morning I have every guild announce the weekly guild quests, in character. So each guild is ran by a persona bot that acts as the leader of the guild. As part of a phase one, I had this heavily rely on genAI to create these announcements but it also created quests that didn't exist. So in phase two I had made it Data-Driven again! Yay DDA! Where Guild Quests in the DB are announced and those can be scheduled and alternated depending on the calendar. My goal here is to not rely on AI at all, I do want the option for novel grammar so things aren't repetitive. My game, way back in 2003 has used AIML. I've always had chatbot integration in my game. The plan is to continue to automate my game through this dynamic married event system. The game is coming to life with more and more stuff coming online and being automated. I've been working on so much from weather systems, terrain streaming, character state machines, and tons and tons of work on the backend.Support this project at patreon.com/auraonline#aura #auraonline #mmo #mmorpg #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamedeveloper #genai #ai #gpt

Exciting news! I'm making great progress on Aura Online, with my game engine and platform. I've been working on horizontal scalability and creating vertical slice prototypes. With a flexible client that supports fullscreen toggling and escape dialogs, I've also added launch arguments such as aura.exe --fullscreen true. My client language is Python and I'm using a Python web sockets server interop and a stateless PHP backend. The architecture is Event-Driven with a Model View Controller, Modules, Services, and Entity Component System. With a smart server and dumb client approach, the platform is the heart of the game while the client is a simple viewer for user input and information. I'm thrilled to be incorporating so much tech and thinking about scalability from day one. Stay tuned for more updates! #aura #auraonline #gamedev #indie #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment

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Hello LinkedIn friends,I’m currently open to new opportunities and I want to reach out to anyone who may be interested.I am an artist with a technical background with a focus on concept, photogrammetry, and emerging technologies. It’s been great to be a part of the teams I’ve worked with. I set out to understand more about console development and their requirements. It’s not like PC and both first parties have completely different ways of approaching first party submissions and requirements. I’ve also honed my skills as a tester, getting hands-on experience on how important testing is to the success of the product.I work quickly and effectively to support my team. I can communicate and collaborate effectively with the development team. I have experience with proprietary game engines and their tools (Call of Duty and Unity). I have professional art skills as an environment designer, world builder, and environment artist. I can take anything from imagination to concept art, to 3D, to final asset. I have experience with DCC such as Maya and Blender as well as other tools such as World Machine and Meshroom. I can work with established proprietary rigs and pipelines. Especially if I’m already familiar with it. I’m eager to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of coders and artists with positive team dynamics and culture.I’m looking forward to someone pointing me in the right direction towards my next opportunity!#opentowork

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I've upgraded my camera rig to be able to take HDRi's. I got a gimbal head, a new lens to hit a 12mm wide angle, and a color checker added to my arsenal.I'm taking time-lapse panoramas for skyboxes as a part of the capture process for games. While I'm out in the field capturing PG assets I can also run sky captures.I'm open to work in Photogrammetry, Environment Design, Environment Art, Props, Character Scanning, and more.#gamedev #gamedevelopment #environmentart #opentowork #gameart #captureartist #photogrammetry #3dscanning #panorama #photography #skyboxes

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