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[jonaz.dk]

Hitman Levels as Social Spaces: The Social Anthropology of Level Design

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Copenhagen MatchUp 2021 takes off April 28th 09:00 - 21:00 CET
Once again we are inviting investors and publisher to meet the Danish games industry over a series of matchmaking meetings.

Again this year, Copenhagen MatchUp will be a 100% online experience, ensuring everybody a safe environment, while exploring the many opportunities the Danish games industry has to offer.

Reserve your place at the biggest games industry matchmaking event, by using the sign-up buttons above.

We are looking forward to meeting you online in April.

– The Copenhagen MatchUp Team

https://copenhagenmatchup.dk

[jonaz.dk]

Magasinmillionær, DR-løve og Karsten Ree har troet på dem i 15 år: Nu skal børsnotering sætte ild under dansk spilfirma
Efter en 15 år lang rejse med de prominente investorer Karsten Ree, Johnny Laursen og Jan Lehrmann i ryggen vil den danske spilvirksomhed Trophy Games sætte turbo på forretningen med en børsnotering på vækstbørsen First North. Målet er at rejse 60 millioner kroner.

(Paywalled med lille preview)
https://www.berlingske.dk/virksomheder/ ... m-i-15-aar

[jonaz.dk]

Dansk virksomhed bag verdenskendt lejemorder slår til igen

IO Interactive har for næsen af internationale giganter sikret sig rettighederne til at føre James Bond ind i spilindustrien. Det er et kæmpe scoop, forklarer Hakan Abrak, adm. direktør i IO Interactive, der opfordrer private og offentlige investorer til at fokusere på spilindustrien, der buldrer frem: ”vi skal have skabt dansk økosystem.”

https://www.danskerhverv.dk/presse-og-n ... -til-igen/

[jonaz.dk]

So Jonas and Jonas who was sitting in our shared basement office in Gothersgade for a while has a new trailer from their latest work. Looking good!

Hi from Jonas!

That Alchemy Game

[jonaz.dk]

And another former basement co dweller @Malte_Burup's Mind Scanners now has a release date!
20th of May 2021. Good job Malte!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1389 ... Scanners/

[jonaz.dk]

And Øvbøv! no BAFTA for the space dwarfs in this round.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons took it home in the multiplayer category.
But nice with the nomination regardless.
https://www.bafta.org/games/awards/multiplayer-2

[jonaz.dk]

Aaaand First Class Trouble from Invisible Walls also has an Early Access release date. 8th of April 2021.
So it's just around the corner for those guys!

I was finally going to play the demo.. buuut just as I finally had time! The demo period ended.

Let's hope it will be an astounding "over night" success. There is certainly potential in the social driven multiplayer games category where things can just explode. But lets see. Fingers crossed!!

A bit of recent gameplay

[jonaz.dk]

Loot River looks pretty rad to me!

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[jonaz.dk]

More large investments from Nordisk Games!

Nordisk Games invests in award-winning UK studio Supermassive Games
COPENHAGEN/GUILDFORD UK - March 29, 2021 – Copenhagen-based Nordisk Games is expanding its portfolio of successful game studios with a minority ownership share of Supermassive Games, the BAFTA-winning, independent game developer best known for the critically acclaimed games Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology. Nordisk will hold 30.7% ownership of Supermassive Games.
https://www.nordiskgames.com/journal/pr ... sive-games

Also never got around to post about their investment into the Finish studio Nitro Games some time ago.
NORDISK FILM GAMES INVESTS SEK 45 MILLION INTO NITRO GAMES AND BECOMES THE LARGEST SHAREHOLDER
https://www.nitrogames.com/nordisk-film ... areholder/

Full list now includes:
Supermassive Games (UK) 30.7% (2021)
Mercury Stream (SP) 40% (2020)
Nitro Games (FI) 45M SEK (2020)
Raw Fury (SE) $5.5M USD (49M SEK) (2018)
Star Stable Entertainment (SE) 40% (2018)
Avalanche Studio Group (SE) 100% (2018)
Reto-Moto (DK) 5M USD 40.3% (2017)
Flashbulb Games (DK) DKK 10M investment (2017)
Kogama (Multiverse) (DK) 40% (2017)

[jonaz.dk]

Nice edge shader for Blender. Free on Gumroad
https://gumroad.com/charlybarrera

[jonaz.dk]

As a lifetime Alien(s) fan. I guess Aliens Fireteam doesn't look too bad. The scary part of the universe doesn't really seam to hit the mark in my opinion. It's more of a run and gun type of game. Which can be ok! Visuals are cool!

[jonaz.dk]

Boardgame online portal (and downloadable) TurnHero from @Roquqkie and friends is in beta.

https://turnhero.com/wp.../uploads/2021 ... lAe1hX.mp4
Web: https://turnhero.com
Spil i browser: https://play.turnhero.com
Klient til PC/Mac/Android: https://turnhero.com/downloads



FB Post link if any browser measures are causing trouble with the embedded content.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PapSnak ... 10302601/

[jonaz.dk]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Cute with another Ninja Turtles brawler. Never really got into the IP as a kid.. a bit outside my age bracket perhaps. The arcade was pretty cool for it's time though. This looks cute and in the same vein!
I'm game if the kiddo is up for some Turtle brawling.

[jonaz.dk]

Free Blender flow map painting addon on Gumroad
https://gumroad.com/l/heZDT

[jonaz.dk]

Swedish devs Hazelight.. the company behind Brothers a tale of two sons. (Excellent game!!)
Is now out with another coop only game. 'It Takes Two'

Looks nice! The combination of story and coop gameplay looks just right.

[jonaz.dk]

The Game Assembly online open house today!
This is one of the best and most focused gamedev schools in the near region. If not the best?!
For game programmers, game artists, game animators, level designers and technical artists.
They don't cover all the bases, far from. But a great environment for hands on production.

Swedish language skills needed to attend properly.

https://www.facebook.com/events/874848609933541/

[jonaz.dk]

GPU Compute Model Terminology / Quick Reference / Rosetta Stone
https://landonthomas.net/docs/gpu_compu ... ck_ref.pdf

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 stuff

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Why Sound Design in Stealth Games is so Important

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Old stuff I forgot to post.

Materialize - Nice little free tool for generating normals etc. from photos

http://www.boundingboxsoftware.com/mate ... /index.php

The Invincible
New IP project from some of the developers bailing CD Project Red. Retro scifi coolnesss!


This is some scifi shit! Not super relevant to games in general besides the potential for the odd out installation client project. But the Voxon VX1 is just pure magic to behold.

[AlexPradt]

I'm looking forward to the release of this game! https://store.romeremastered.totalwar.com/

[jonaz.dk]

Play at Home 2021 update: 10 free games to download this Spring
https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/17 ... is-spring/


I actually got a PS4 for free some months ago. Girlfriends kiddo was about to dump it in the trash. So technically it's a saved console. Honestly it has been a bit of a dust collector since my initial time with it. Got to play a bit of God of War and various other games. I hope I find some time to finish it at some point.
But free games for all PS4 owners out there. A lot of them is PSVR based. So clever move on Sony to push free titles out there that requires a VR headset and very possibly selling some of that in the process.

[jonaz.dk]

Impressive simulation in FluidNinjaLive for Unreal


FluidNinja LIVE
https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en ... ninja-live
FluidNinja VFX
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplac ... dated=true
Ninja Player
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplac ... injaplayer