Posted by: xSicKxBot - 05-13-2019, 10:21 AM - Forum: Lounge
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Get a job: MLB Advanced Media, Subset Games, and more are hiring now!
Whether you’re just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what’s out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.
Gamasutra’s Job Board is the most diverse, most active, and most established board of its kind in the video game industry, serving companies of all sizes, from indie to triple-A.
Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now. If you’re a recruiter looking for talent, you can also post jobs here.
Location: New York, New York
MLB Advanced Media is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our team for a new, exciting baseball game title. A Senior Engineer in this role will develop new systems and gameplay for our baseball software products, working closely with programmers, artists, and designers with a great deal of autonomy.
Location: Seattle, Washington
Subset Games, the game studio behind FTL and Into the Breach, is looking for an experienced C++ programmer to work remotely and help manage our growing library of games. As we’re a very small team, you will also have the opportunity to be involved throughout our development process, including working on any new projects we pursue. You will help guide the technical future of Subset Games, participating in the iteration and improvement of our code-base for future projects.
Location: Helsinki, Finland
As our Graphics Programmer, you will design and implement systems for our rendering engine developed inhouse by our own ambitious and talented team. We offer you the opportunity to work on a new innovative and groundbreaking tech for existing and future titles. Depending on your background and interests, you can join us as a senior member taking full independent responsibility, or as a Technical Lead influencing our long term road map and exploring new technologies beyond current projects.
Location: Boca Raton, Florida
Our Company has a challenging opportunity for an Unreal Engine Technical Artist in our Boca Raton, FL location. We utilize Unreal Engine 4 to build 3D virtual tours of “to-be-built” buildings. This includes fully interactive first-person, third-person and virtual reality experiences primarily for use in the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or other mixed-reality devices. We are currently expanding the menu of virtual and augmented reality services that we offer to our clients and this expansion brings a unique set of challenges with it.
Location: Emeryville, California
Work alongside Pixar animators and engineers to design and implement new features within the Presto Animation System to help create the next generation of Pixar films. Presto is Pixar’s industry leading animation production software suite, built from the ground up with a modern architecture and a well-designed code base. You will be challenged by our production teams to enable Pixar to continue to raise the high bar for what can be achieved in the art of digital animation.
May 3rd : New Preview Alpha Skip Ahead 1910 Update (1910.190430-1920)
Starting at 2:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha Skip Ahead Ring will begin receiving the latest 1910 Xbox One system update (19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_19H2HOLD_1910\18362.7085.190430-1920). This build has the same features and fixes as 1905 however we need valuable core recovery coverage and feedback as we skip ahead.
DETAILS:
OS version released: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_19H2HOLD_1910\18362.7085.190430-1920
We are adding a new feature in this build to sorting in My Games and Apps today based on User feedback. You will now see more date categories for sorting by last update or last used. Please test out the new feature and provide feedback.
Friends list shows where your friends are playing
We have added the new feature in this build of displaying where your friends are playing in the guide. Please test out the new feature and provide feedback.
Voice channels in messaging
Voice channels have been added to Xbox Live messaging on console. This feature is only available in Alpha and can only be used between Alpha users. If you and a friend are both in Preview Alpha, we’d highly encourage you try adding a voice channel and let us know what you think!
Fixes:
Audio
Fixes for users are experiencing no audio with headsets.
Kinect
We have fixed the issue with the Kinect video feed being delayed.
Messaging
Resolved issues with one to one voice invites
My Games and Apps
Fixes to address installation status of game bundles to correctly show overall installation status.
Fixes to the Cloud Save system that some users were experiencing with “Your other Xbox is taking a long time to sync to the cloud”.
System
Fixed a memory leak to address overall system performance.
Fix all voice chat strings and change party icon to headset icon.
Resolved some missing settings in the Settings UI.
Localization fixes.
Known Issues:
Audio
Some users are encountering no audio on their Xbox console after boot (no shell audio, no game audio, no app audio), then have CSS ask them to perform the following steps:
Cold reboot the console
OR
Go to Audio settings on console
Change their HDMI audio settings to the highest supported uncompressed channel count for their equipment
Switch back to the desired format
Audio should be restored
My Games and Apps
We are tracking the video corruption issue with Youtube and Netflix 4k playback.
We are tracking an issue in Super Lucky’s Tale that when you pause play to go to guide then go back to the game you experience a ten second delay. Please report if you see this behavior with any other game/app.
Profile Color
Sometimes users may encounter the incorrect Profile color when powering on the console.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 05-13-2019, 06:29 AM - Forum: Lounge
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Fortnite To Host "Summer Block Party" Right After E3
Epic Games has announced it's hosting a Fortnite party just after E3 2019. The two-day event will start on June 15 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Though not officially tied to E3, it is relatively close to the Los Angeles Convention Center and takes place just a couple days after E3--and its press conferences--end. If you're already going to the industry event you may want to stay a couple days to relax and party.
The event will kick off with a Creative tournament on June 15 featuring celebrities and streamers. That tourney will include a new player-made game designed just for the event. Then on June 16, the event will host the Celebrity Pro-Am. Planned attendees include Ninja, Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco, Dillon Francis, KittyPlays, Cray and Jordan Fisher.
Pre-sale registration through Ticketmaster is now open, which will register you as a "Verified Fan" and gain you access to the sale period. That will put you in the pool to be notified about the ticket sales, to begin later. Battlepass pre-sale tickets will begin on Saturday, May 11 at 10 AM PT through Monday, May 13. Then Verified Fan pre-sales will begin on Wednesday, May 15 at 10 AM PT and run through Thursday, May 16. General public sales will begin the next day.
Tickets for the event will start at $35, and includes both days of events and tournaments along with other themed Fortnite activities like ziplining and Fortnite Mini Golf. You can even eat at Durr Burger, Pizza Pete's, and Sofdeez Ice Cream Shop.
In the game proper, Fortnite Season 9 has just kicked off with a new futuristic theme. You can see the new skins and goodies and what's changed for this season, and check out our challenge guide to unlock all the loot. There also appears to be another movie-themed mode on the way, after a leak of a John Wick update.
Image & Form Is Preparing “Something Special” For Next Week
We know how passionate Image & Form are when it comes to the SteamWorld series, with the developer releasing its latest entry at the end of last month. So, what’s next? Nobody is really sure, but what we do know is the Swedish-based company has been preparing “something special” for next week. The developer made this comment over on its Twitter account while promoting the current game sale taking place on the Switch eShop:
The Image & Form social media page wasn’t willing to reveal anything when asked by fans what it could be. Some are thinking it might be a new game announcement, while others thought it is perhaps a plan to port the card battler SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech to more platforms.
Are you expecting anything in particular? Have you tried out the latest SteamWorld game yet? Tell us down in the comments.
Rumour: Pokémon Sword & Shield Might Be Compatible With Pokémon GO
Pokémon GO has been insanely successful for Niantic and The Pokémon Company, so it makes perfect sense for Game Freak to make the popular mobile game compatible with its upcoming Switch release, Pokémon Sword and Shield.
It now appears we could be finding out about potential compatibility between the two games sooner than planned, with Pokémon GO dataminer Chrales discovering the latest update for the mobile app – Version 0.143.0 – features a string referred to as “koala_settings”, for a separate app.
According to the source, the codename “koala” might be Sword and Shield’s internal codename, which is said to match the naming convention Game Freak uses to link each game with nature or an animal. The previous release, Pokémon Let’s Go, Pikachu! & Let’s Go, Eevee! is codenamed “beluga” (a whale) and has its own dedicated settings screen inside GO to connect the two games.
A Pokémon fan page on Twitter went into a bit more detail about previous codenames in the series:
Given the continued success of Niantic’s augmented reality mobile game, a connection with the upcoming Switch release seems quite feasible.
Are you expecting Sword and Shield to be made compatible with GO? What are your thoughts about this datamine? Tell us down below.
The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.1. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version has many security fixes included. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, May 13, 2019 through Saturday, May 18, 2019. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.
How does a test week work?
A test day/week is an event where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed before, this is a perfect way to get started.
To contribute, you only need to be able to do the following things:
Download test materials, which include some large files
Read and follow directions step by step
The wiki page for the kernel test day has a lot of good information on what and how to test. After you’ve done some testing, you can log your results in the test day web application. If you’re available on or around the day of the event, please do some testing and report your results.
Happy testing, and we hope to see you on test day.
Unity have just released their latest beta, Unity 2019.2, now available in the Beta Releases tab in the Unity Hub. So shortly after GDC 2019, there aren’t many surprises in this release.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 05-13-2019, 12:21 AM - Forum: Lounge
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Detective Pikachu Makes A Stealthy Home Alone Joke
The Detective Pikachu movie is bursting with Pokemon, from the well-known to the obscure; enough to excite any type of Pokemon fan. It's also completely full of callbacks to the Pokemon universe--everything from the video games to the TV show to the collectible card game. All in all, we found some 30 Easter eggs--but the movie also has quite a few pop culture references mixed in as well.
One big and easy to miss Easter egg pops up early in the movie, when protagonist Tim Goodman visits the apartment of his father, Detective Harry Goodman, after his death. The place is in the state Harry left it, and Tim even finds the TV still on. He rolls his eyes and makes a comment about his dad's love for old detective movies, before moving on to find the Pokemon-themed bedroom his dad set up for him when he was a kid.
The movie comes off as some random black-and-white film noir offering, but it's actually not. What's playing on Harry's TV is not a real movie at all--it's a clip from the beloved 1990 John Hughes family comedy, Home Alone.
In that movie, when young Kevin McCallister finds himself alone in his house, he eats ridiculous ice cream sundaes of his own devising and puts on an R-rated black-and-white movie. The movie is "Angels With Filthy Souls," the same thing Tim finds on the TV at Harry's.
The thing is, "Angels With Filthy Souls" is not a real movie. It's just one scene and was created specifically for Home Alone. It also gave birth to the iconic line, "Keep the change, ya filthy animal." Director Rob Letterman told FreshFiction.tv's Courtney Howard the movie's use on Harry's TV was originally a placeholder, but the filmmakers never found anything that could beat it--so eventually, they looked into licensing the fake film instead of trying to get a real one, and it made it into the Detective Pikachu final cut.
Still, the inclusion of "Angels With Filthy Souls" means one of two things are true: First, Harry's TV could be playing Home Alone (and, possibly, Harry is a fan of that movie, like literally every human), which means Home Alone is a movie in the universe of Pokemon. Or second, in the Pokemon world, "Angels With Filthy Souls" is a real movie, just like in Home Alone--which means that Tim Goodman and Pikachu share a universe with Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits.
Alongside the Tetris 99 competition next weekend (giving you a chance to unlock an exclusive Tetris Game Boy theme), Splatoon 2 will be holding another Splatfest in both North America and Europe.
The big question this time around is would you prefer to be able to time travel or teleport? As usual, you’ll have to pick a side and then fight for what you believe in on the battlefield. Here are some additional details for both regions from the official Nintendo Twitter accounts:
It’s time for the new #Splatoon2 #Splatfest! Which superpower would you rather have? Will you break the clock with #TeamTimeTravel or take a trip with #TeamTeleportation? This event runs from 5/17 9:00pm PT – 5/18 9:00pm PT.
Which superpower would you rather have: Time Travel or Teleportation? Choose a side and battle it out in next #Splatoon2 Splatfest, starting 18/05 14:00 CEST.
As usual, this event is limited to the weekend – so be sure to set aside some time to play if you want your side to win.
Which team will you be joining? Tell us down below.
