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A bolstered DADIU: New faculty team will lead and develop the education program moving forward
A four-person faculty team with extensive experience from the gaming industry has been charged with improving and expanding the professional and artistic scope of DADIU (The National Academy for Digital Interactive Entertainment).
https://www.dadiu.dk/news/a-bolstered-d ... ng-forward

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Recent DK demos!

Mind Diver.. the commercial release demo. There is following the free student version.


Hemlock

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NORDIC GAME AWARDS 2024 NOMINEES
Nordic Game unveils the final nominees for the 2024 edition of the Nordic Game Awards, streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö on Thursday, 23 May during NG24 Spring. Hosted by Paula Manrique, Gaming expert at TV4 Nyhetsmorgon.

https://nordicgame.com/nordic-game-awar ... -nominees/

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Unreal Engine May 2024 Free Assets


https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplac ... 0&tag=4910

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Indie project Cellfish from BRTL Games has now launched!

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The 100 Games That Taught Me Game Design

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The easiest game design document

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Visuals and tech looks amazing!.. gameplay not so much.

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 - DF Tech Review - The Next Level in Real-Time Visuals

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PureRef 2.0 - Massive & Useful New Features!


https://www.pureref.com/

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There is now a demo of Half Past Yellows 'Spectacle'.

Update: Just played the demo! Such a brilliant puzzle game. Really cool and creative! Proud of my former co-workers!
It's not exactly Portal. but something in a alternative vein of first person puzzlers.
Demo completion time 20m3s. So it's a rather quick demo to run though.

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Scandals at Nordic Game.. yikes!
Nordic Game is a great event mind you and should not considered the normal.
I hope this will end with the rooting out of a few bad apples.

Investigation finds Nordic Game likely violated discrimination law
External firm cites "overwhelming" evidence of misconduct from one man formerly employed by the event organizer, but cannot corroborate claims against a current employee
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/investiga ... nation-law

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Our friendly almost neighbours Hutlihut Games has updated Void Crew with an new roguelite endless mode.

Trailer here

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Denmark gets a game institute!
'Nimbi GameLab – Danmarks Institut for Spiludvikling'

Haha I like the name! I wonder if they will 'borrow' my also 'borrowed' Nimbi logo from the 1963 game Nimbi by Piet Hein.


EUROPAS FØRSTE SPILINSTITUT ER I LUFTEN
Nimbi GameLab – Danmarks Institut for Spiludvikling. Det er navnet på Danmarks nye spilinstitut, som henviser til et af de første danske digitale spil fra 1963. Instituttet er det første af sin slags i Europa og er sat i verden for at støtte den danske spilbranche.
https://kum.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/europas- ... r-i-luften

Minister lancerer første danske spilinstitut: Flere skal game uden at blive afhængige
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/minis ... afhaengige

Ministeren er selv vokset op med spil, men de seneste fem år er der sket et skred. Nu vil han gøre op med »vanedannende algoritmer«
https://www.berlingske.dk/samfund/minis ... r-der-sket

Mikkel from Ghostship at the 13.20 minute mark on DR.
https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/tva_-dansk-ki ... der_456263

A website has been registered here: (Though no content as of yet).
www.nimbi.dk

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Nordisk Games (Film) owned Avalanche studios axes 2 studios. The New York and Montreal studio.

Just Cause developer Avalanche closing two studios and laying off 50 workers
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ ... 50-workers

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Free Unreal stuff for the month, June 2024!


Grab it here!
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplac ... 0&tag=4910

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'Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded' Announcement Trailer (Quest 3)
Developed by IO Interactive and UK-based studio XR Games

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First pre-alpha footage of Dead Ends developed by DK based KeyQuest Studio! (No Steam page spotted so far.. Update: I hear it's in current review for launch)

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Rebots gameplay trailer from our office mates at Flat Ponies. Release is somewhere in 2024.

Rebots - Official Gameplay Video | Guerrilla Collective 2024

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Trailer for Forgotlings developed by DK Throughline Games!

Also playable demo on Steam!

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Sometimes game development is hard! If not always. Some projects has more challenges than others.
Kerbal Space Program 2 have had its issues.

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In case you missed it... I would recommend get off any Adobe products. By principle alone would be enough reason.



Fairly descent alternatives

Free web browser
https://www.photopea.com

Fres open source
https://krita.org

Affinity Photo/Designer 50% off
https://affinity.serif.com

Procreate in iPad pro should also be good
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/procreate/id425073498

Davinci Resolve (video editing)
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... nciresolve