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Early on during development of Still Wakes The Deep, THE CHINESE ROOM LTD decided that they wanted to play on different fears and phobias.   One dev who particularly fed into this process was Principal Environment Artist, Dominique Buttiens, who's claustrophobia influenced the game's eerie environments 🧵👇   In an interview with PlayStation Dominique discusses how, alongside the wider team's focus on the fear of the ocean and isolation, the environments are influenced by a fear very vivid to Dominique.   "I wouldn't say it's comforting but I think it will make for a thrilling story." Worry not - Dominique found using personal experience to be "useful and intriguing" to the environment art process.   Read the full article for more details, and video examples of the depths of the Beira D oil rig… if you dare 😱   🔗 https://bit.ly/3A0TKDo #StillWakesTheDeep #EnvironmentArt #GameDev

We wanted to say a big thank you to our friends at Sumo Group for their kind donation towards our Press Pause fundraising campaign. If you'd like to support our ongoing efforts in mental health awareness in the video games industry, hit the link below! https://lnkd.in/eaxNK-q4

In the spirit of all things Halloween and hellish, let's #TBT to Lab42 Games' interview with UploadVR about their VR port of Metal: Hellsinger 🧵👇   In this interview, Lab42 Games discusses how they navigated the fine balance of retaining the core experience of #MetalHellsinger, while also making sure they enhanced the VR experience for players.   💡 Did you know that the recoil in the VR version is amplified more?   This is one of many examples how Lab42 strives to optimise games for their intended platforms, ensuring that players have a great experience, whatever platform they choose to play on.   What could be cooler than striking down hellish hoards while headbanging to the rhythm?! 🔥   Learn more about Lab42's porting journey in the full article:   🔗 https://bit.ly/3NDEYFy #Porting #Interview #GameDevelopment

The #SDC24 Vault is here! ▶ 24 new talks ▶ 7 disciplines ▶ All for FREE Check out the updated playlist for 45+ hours of expert-led content right at your fingertips 👇 🔗 https://bit.ly/4aHRQVK

Women in Games' 20th Anniversary: Sumo Group's Christina Haralambous discusses the importance of the organisation and how Sumo collaborates with our community - https://shorturl.at/8PUMG

Excited to share that my role will be growing to Business Development & Licensing Director for the Sumo Group of studios. I will be looking after Sumo's publisher relations in the AA/III/Indie field - looking to match our fantastic studios with the best publishers in the industry and make magic happen. If you are in this realm of things, we have a lot to discuss, lets chat! Extremely grateful to Sumo Group for the opportunity and wide spread support! (and just to embarrass them, David Bailey, Ph.D. and Dean Trotman 😁) #gamesindustry #businessdevelopment #licensing

The wildest racing event in existence Stampede: Racing Royale is NOW AVAILABLE on Steam 💥 Free-to-play 💥 Brand new HARD MODE 💥Cross-platform matchmaking Get racing: https://lnkd.in/erYWE8gR #StampedeRacingRoyale

HUGE congratulations to the teams at THE CHINESE ROOM LTD and Secret Mode for the two Golden Joysticks nominations for Best Supporting Performer and Best Audio Design for #StillWakesTheDeep See the rest of the nominations, and cast your vote using the link below 👇

☀️ Well, I'm back from the best holiday, with a bang, and I can't believe it's been over a week since the second incredible British Racing Greats event. where Sumo Group were honoured to be one of the sponsors, alongside Julius Baer, Playground Games and many more supporters! 🏎️ Huge thanks again to Chris Lee, Aimee Johnson, Adam Thorby and the rest of the Supercar Driver team for organising a brilliant event at The Goodwood Group Motor Circuit, to raise vital funds for two of Sumo Group's charity partners, Solving Kids' Cancer UK and SpecialEffect. 🍻 An idea that started over a few drinks between Darren Mills and Nick Streeter, SpecialEffect, inspired by the Twin Town Challenge, has grown into a massive event for all ages! 🚘 A massive thank you to Roger Carpenter for rallying together a few minis to compliment our GTI Club themed stand, and to anyone who brought a car along! ♣️ Thanks to Ian Chambers for coming along with his very impressive magic skills, which leave me absolutely speechless, and for making sure I found a train in time. I didn't miss my Eurostar! 🚲 Thanks to SEGA for arranging a special visit from Sonic, to Sonic for bringing their bike along, and to everyone who helped with providing tools and unpacking the bike! If you know, you know... 🏄♀️ it was so great to see Ian and Amanda there from The Wave Project, raising awareness for their adaptive surfing initiative. I'm looking into volunteering for them to help with some sessions in Tynemouth... ⭐ I can't thank Chris Lee enough for letting me join the parade lap in a very very very beautiful Cobra that was signed by Carroll Shelby. That will take some beating! 🚚 Big thanks to Rosie King for helping with late night courier missions to make sure everything arrived on time! 💚 I'm sure I'll have missed someone! So sorry if that's you! So many people were involved in this incredible event. 👀 If you'd like to go to the next one, watch this space, or just get in touch if you'd like a head start on sponsoring the next event....

To understand how player data can impact game dev, it's important to know how data innovations have shaped the industry… Laine Baker, Studio Live-Ops Director at Sumo Sheffield shares his thoughts on the significant milestones of data in games throughout the years 💭👇 1️⃣ MapleStory (NEXON KOREA), 2003 Data analysis allowed designers to fine-tune a lot of features of the game. Analysis of the times when players were most active "led to the creation of popular 'hot time' events, encouraging masses of players to all login at the same time." 2️⃣ League of Legends (Riot Games), 2009 Using player surveys (qualitative), and in-game data (quantitative), the team was able to constantly balance the game. "Balancing a long-running game is always tricky, and the Riot team are constantly learning about their game from players!" 3️⃣ Candy Crush Saga (King), 2012 To help refine the difficulty curve of each level, the team behind Candy Crush Saga used player churn and engagement metrics to see where players were getting frustrated, ensuring that the game felt balanced, but still challenging. 4️⃣ Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix America), 2022 Live-service games are always evolving, and after over a decade of being live, FFXIV began using player data and machine learning operations to dynamically change player experience, based on their behaviour in-game. Gameplay is personalised from quests to game modes. Eager to dive into data even deeper? 🤿 In our full Data Driven Games article Laine is joined by Sean Quinn, LiveOps Director at Sumo Leamington 💙 They look at how data can help make better games, with an insight into the dev of Stampede: Racing Royale 🎮 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LKSmqv