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Klemen

@klemen_lozar

Dynamic lights are expensive, using sprites with a modulate blend material you can multiply screen colors behind the sprite and use depth masking to fake a light radius, cheap and can work surprisingly well. #screenshotsaturday #UE4 #gamedev #indiedev

Using modulate blending, make sure you clamp the result in a range above 1 for this to work right. Modulate blending without depth testing is also great for various glow effects. #screenshotsaturday #UE4 #gamedev #indiedev

Here's a more practical example, core of the sprite is not being masked by depth so it's always visible, depth masked glows around geometry look pretty convincing as impressions of lighting. #screenshotsaturday #UE4 #gamedev #indiedev

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Joe Radak @NotGDC :(

@Fr0z3nR

So, after going through nearly THREE HUNDRED games on my Steam Discovery queue, I have some examples of good and not-so-good game trailers. If you're in the process of trailer editing for your game, please consider the following.

A thread on indie game trailer does and don't.

Start off with one I don't think are that great 👎

Convoy -
Starts off with positive quotes from PCGamer, Subset Games & Vlambeer folk. Great, definitely have them in the trailer, but not at the front. I don't think the avg gamer knows these folks.

Beyond that, it was 8s of accolades, 5s of a ship crashing, and then the first gameplay we see is UI with lots of reading. Is this a UI driven game? I don't want to read in a trailer, I want to see what the gist of the game is - which I believe is 19s into the trailer! Yuck!

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White Paper Games

@WhitePaperGames

The Occupation will be playable @EGX! To celebrate, we’ll be posting 14 fun things we’ve been working on super hard, starting next Tuesday!