Alfonso Mestres

Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite.

quick (hair)cut from my last vid

Another interesting optimization technique I noticed in Vice City: some of the dock bollards aren’t modeled in 3D, at least not in an conventional way. They’re actually made of 4 polygons combined with a transparent texture.

Learn how Embark Studios leveraged their custom Houdini toolset, Building Creator, to create large environments with fully destructible buildings in THE FINALS. It was used for ARC Raiders as well: 80.lv/articles/how-e…

When video game doors attack

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In Super Mario World, the Big Bubble enemies are just minimally edited and recolored bodies of Big Boos. While this is most likely simply a case of asset reuse, it can also be interpreted as Big Bubbles being a more immaterial, protoplasmic state of Big Boos.

In Super Mario Galaxy, a planet can be seen in the distance in Good Egg Galaxy that should not exist. Attempting to fly to that planet makes it transform into a different one when Mario gets close. This is actually due to a completely wrong low-polygon model being assigned to it.

the new aspiration is so....

Developer Goober-Gaming proposed a "simple and elegant solution" for making third-person weapon handling animations in Unreal Engine 5 look more realistic. Learn more: 80.lv/articles/devel… #unrealengine5 #ue5 #unrealengine #animation #3danimation #gamedev #gamedevelopment

Left 4 Dead face models having their expressions recorded

Don't sleep on trigonometry kids, one day you might need it to calculate the angle of a locked-on side hop

How do we get that zoom effect? Well, Pictures or gifs say more than a thousand words! This is also why we can't watch change view direction..

@Ninfa_dp Ben fet! Una buena decisión😊 Good luck with the move! Let me know if you need a hand🤗❤️

I’m moving to Barcelona in September! I don’t know if people in Barcelona smoke less than in Berlin (honestly one of the many reasons why I hate living here) but I’m really looking forward to sun, good food, beach and a bit of feeling like at home again.

3 effective horror #leveldesign principles: ▪️Isolation ▪️Contrast ▪️Fear of the Unknown Let's breakdown how "Alan Wake" used these 3 principles to create horror in their level designs. Quick Thread...⬇️

When you see a game that looks super smooth and you're curious how the camera works, try overlaying some lines on the screen to help observe the camera behavior. I've never done this and *not* noticed something interesting. #gamedevelopment

This channel definitely deserves more subscribers. Hours of game animation reference and updated pretty regular #animation @videogameanimationreferences/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@videogameanim…

@educueto Wow

Recopilé una lista con más de 800 videojuegos mexicanos desde 1973 hasta 2023. 🎮🇲🇽 Este documento vivo estará alojado en internet para que todos puedan explorarlo. ¡No se lo pierdan! 👉🏼 indi-es.com/juegos

My 4 most popular #leveldesign vids: My Dishonored 2 / Arkane level design test: youtube.com/watch?v=8cEccZ… Speed Level Design videos = misleading: youtube.com/watch?v=IcCFto… How I design levels in text first: youtube.com/watch?v=0FSssD… Why LD is hard to practice: youtube.com/watch?v=-T73pq…