Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. There's no secret to how a good update should look: it should be engaging, profitable, and regular. As you can see, the result is pretty good for a 9-year-old game.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Everybody wants to be a board game designer these days. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many board game designers are competent in every aspect of board game design, except for testing the premises of their ideas.

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Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mobile game developers are constantly looking for new ways to bring in new players and keep existing players engaged with their games. One of the most successful ways of doing this is by introducing meta elements – gameplay elements and mechanics from other game genres – into your game.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Have you ever wondered how to make your game immersive or why some games are more immersive than others? Laurie (Avocado Fire) joins Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* to discuss ultimate immersion in video games. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Something truly horrifying… Creator Kevin Le, working under the name of Yobob Games , carefully chose to combine a farming simulator with horror elements, after doing market research. “A A lot of people know about Stardew Valley and streamers love horror games. “A Le created the game by himself in three and a half years.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sagrada is one of my recent favorite board games. It is fundamentally a pretty simple game, but it has a lot of really endearing qualities. It’s ultimately a puzzle game, but a very attractive one with some subtle elements that arise from it being a nearly perfect information game where players draw from the same draft pool.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. So to get his advice and learn his secrets, we sat down to hear his story and journey as a solo-game developer. So I had a game there.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

Monopoly: it’s one of the oldest board games in the store. It’s one of the top 10 best-selling board games. It’s also a terrible board game. There’s a good chance I offended you with that last statement, but it’s important. out of 10 on BoardGameGeek. out of 10 on BoardGameGeek.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Guest Post by Ken Landen , an experienced figure in the gaming industry, currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of a startup that's currently in stealth mode. With a career dating back to 2012, Ken has contributed to renowned gaming companies such as Blizzard, Scopely, and Kongregate.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

The concept is simple: through gamification, you take the elements we associate with games – point scoring, competition, rules – and apply them to something else. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This cycle then repeats.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

In many ways, the modern board gaming boom began with Catan. It is a phenomenal game that, when it came out in 1995, revolutionized the way we saw board games. on Board Game Geek. But board games have been around since Mesopotamia , so let’s talk about the top 10 old board games. Dune (1979).

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 15, 2021

Board games have been wildly successful in the last ten years. That’s why many are surprised to hear that solo board games not only exist but are very common. Good thing, too. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Oh yeah, definitely.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But making a game there is unlike making a game anywhere else. It’s much faster paced, the audience is much younger, and it’s much more tricky to design. Don’t make it like a mobile game. The players just aren’t receptive to this style of game.”. For one, it’s extremely easy to switch to a different game.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game?

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Instead, two elements are popped from the stack, multiplied, and the result is then pushed back onto the stack. 4 3 2 ] After pushing * , we once again pop the two topmost elements and multiply them. . : 4 3 2 ] After pushing * , we once again pop the two topmost elements and multiply them. 2 1 ] Now, we push an * operator.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It's an OK game. I'm a nobody on the outside, looking at a giant development monolith and trying to figure out how this game could possibly have ended up where it did. Standard Disclaimer This game is a huge success in every way, and I am an ant. Though God help any foolish reviewer who tries to give an AAA game less than 9/10.)

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Brand Game Development

JULY 29, 2019

Board gaming has a long, storied history that goes back to ancient times. You can find old games of Ur, Senet, and Chess carved out of stone and buried in tombs. Indeed, the modern board game landscape that we know and love is only about as old as Catan , which came out in 1995. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 1995, the game formerly known as Settlers of Catan was nothing more than the obscure creation of designer Klaus Teuber. The board game market as we know it today did not exist yet. Catan was the first major hobby board game to come into existence. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game?

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I say more about each game on the podcast, so make sure to check that out. Bad level design. TALES OF BERSERIA – GREAT opening, compelling main character and good plot gravity. Great art, great music, good writing. Cool combat system, good art, good music – overall, good stuff.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Introduction In part one , we introduced key features of Amazon DocumentDB and explained how they can be applied to solve common database use cases in game development. Data Modeling Data modeling is the process of designing how an application stores data in a given database. The number of instances determines availability target.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

We didn’t yet know what reasonable limits to put on such a feature, as in what’s the absolute furthest it could go without compromising other parts of the game design. The scope could not be so ambitious without what I decided at the time: This design will lean really heavily into having a large screen to play on.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Development Time As of the latest tally I’ve reached a total of 16,785 hours of work in these 10 years. Mockups put together in REXPaint some weeks ago during a dev stream in preparation for Cogmind’s new UI layout (open for full size). Numbers go up. The dip below 1.0

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But with November comes Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hannukah, and New Years, so in my family that means the season of family games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. But I still want to share with you all one of my family’s “new” favorite card games.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Prior to this I’ve always framed the zooming discussion as a full-UI thing, where not just the map but everything needs to be larger, which is kind of a show-stopper when there is a minimum number of text elements required to be visible at all times for proper play as designed. It must be done. Something in between 1.0x

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

This post is written by our friends, the fantastic Game Bakery substack team. However, the gameplay in Dislyte is nothing new, adopting Lilith’s best practices for CCG-RPG games with validated gameplay, solid meta-features, and gacha-based monetization. The game is, in a way, a follow-up to the widely successful AFK Arena.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Board games have been absurdly popular for the last several years. In 1999, the possibility of the board game industry experiencing a massive renaissance like the one we’ve all been witness to was laughable. Then, serendipitously, one by one, the obstacles toward the modern board gaming landscape fell away.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lesson 11: Game Difficulty Summary In this video, Aaron delves into the nuanced topic of difficulty in video games, emphasizing the role of a game designer in setting the difficulty level to align with the narrative and the intended player experience. Now, if you’re making a game that doesn’t matter.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pioneers of Pagonia is a fantasy city building and economy management game from Envision Entertainment. GameDaily spoke to Wertich about the game, and the success of the demo. GameDaily: Tell us about Pioneers of Pagonia , and what you’re aiming to achieve with the game’s design? The game is self explanatory.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Well, after Beta 11 that’s where we find ourselves now, switching focus more and more to brand new elements that don’t need to adhere to any sort of core content accessibility requirements. The results since then have been great, but what comes next? Lots and lots of fun. Some individual items take days or even weeks to build.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 4, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Seeing Your Childhood Games with Older Eyes. Nostalgia is a good way to deal with a crisis , to be sure.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. As an example, collaboration events are used by more than 70% of the top 10% of highest-grossing games in the China iOS market.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today we’ll try to figure out the main peculiarities, styles, and differences of 2D art in game development. Even though some players consider 3D game art superior to 2D game art and believe that the latter is not so popular, we are sure of the opposite. The Origins Of The 2D Game Art. Main 2D Game Art Styles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

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