Game Errors

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Drawing from my own gaming experience and expert advice, I’ve complied a list of efficient and working solutions that fixed the low fps issue in Apocalypse Party on my devices. Let’s dive into these game-changer techniques to enhance your gameplay experience! Running an SFC scan helps identify and repair these issues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Games that have a huge fan base.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 27, 2022

“Time Amok” is a great example of how a simple story can eschew becoming a “Very Special Episode.” Plus, we explore some fantastic Trek tropes without it feeling as though we’re getting a primer on what Star Trek generally tends to be. Janeway blips back in Dal’s quarters, where Dal is playing some sort of video game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado.

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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. Let’s get started. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game. The current game could continue to grow for a while, but its current economic policies are fundamentally unsustainable.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 22, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the twelfth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming.

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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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Good thing, too. Oh yeah, definitely.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today, I have a challenge for you as a board game designer. I want to see you make a board game in 28 days. But I believe momentum builds on itself, and sometimes, the most important thing you can do is get started. That’s why I’ve provided a 28-day game design challenge for you. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 1, 2019

Of all the ways to learn about board game fulfillment, I didn’t think the Quacks of Quedlinburg would be one of them. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We thought it’d be fun to answer some of those questions online.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Core engine.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work.

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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. I am good at Rummikub and I like card games. Happy Monday to all!

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. I realized I needed a more structured approach and, more importantly, some experts from whom I could get direct responses to questions, problem-solving, and candid feedback.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

DOS games were those developed under this operating system. While some of the best DOS games can bring you back to wonderful memories of your younger years, they also laid the foundation for what we see in the gaming world today. What Makes A Good DOS Game? Did the game perform well for what it was?

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Singletons are very useful because they can transfer game data from scene to scene without the need to save and load data in the background. There’s also a debate amongst game programmers should you be using the singleton pattern at all because if your game gets too large then it will be hard to manage and so on.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. The analogy is morbid, but the concept is simple. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 26, 2018

The term “content marketing” gets thrown around carelessly on the Internet way too much and with little meaning attached, but the basic idea is simple. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. News Sites/News Feeds.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 7, 2022

That’s why Spectrum Labs’ content moderation AI is used by developers like Riot Games and Wildlife Studios to guard against toxic and illegal behavior. In other words: Spectrum Labs helps you grow your gaming platform without needing to hire an army of Trust & Safety moderators each step of the way.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The game also features some nice little tweaks to the gameplay that differentiate it from its rivals.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

A lot has been written, and there has been a lot of discussion about, the potential for a huge new gaming and virtual world paradigm which many are calling the Metaverse. Likely no introduction needed, but we are joined by Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games. So just to kick things off, Tim and by the way, thanks again for being here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 19, 2022

Axie Infinity, the former poster child of blockchain gaming and the game that coined the term “Play to Earn,” has fallen on hard times as this “digital nation” reels from a recession prompted by declining player growth and plummeting token values. Email Address. Download PDF. We respect your privacy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This guest post is written by Gordon Rowe , an experienced product leader that has spent 10 years building and operating free to play games on mobile, web, and consoles. I’m hooked on this game. from Gram Games, and Evermerge from Big Fish/Neskin Games. It’s 2:02 pm on a Friday and I’ve got a lot of work to do.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis is written by my friend, Buğrahan Göker who focused on 4X games, and Yours Truly. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Instead we predicted an evolution of these games on two levels - Hypercasual meta systems will deepen to drive stronger medium term retention Hypercasual monetisation would ‘hybridise’ to rely on both Ads and IAPs Fast forward 10 months, hypercasual downloads are at an all-time high - as you’ll see in the data ahead. But first, a quick recap.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Most roguelikes apply some sort of randomization to their items, which makes a lot of sense for a genre focused on replayability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 20, 2023

Beta 12 has released, and that means it’s once again time to examine player-submitted stats from the previous major release! Overview The data we’re examining spans the Beta 11~11.2 versions played from mid-March 2022 through the end of February this year, during which 935 unique players submitted a total of 11,207 runs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. The motivation behind it was not to achieve the maximum performance in extreme use cases, but accomodate better to most user's needs. Without it it's quite difficult to get into the internals.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This post is sponsored by Lab Cave , a Mobile Growth Company that provides App Store Optimization and Mediation services for mobile Apps and Games. This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

The internet is filled with classic adventure fan sites centered around the LucasArts and Sierra games and a common thread is always how much people would like to see new ones being made, and why isn't it being done. 1) We're building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. 2) We're hiring real employees to build the game.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

In this article, we answer this question and share examples to help you understand it better. Using an AI face generator also allows artists to create game characters, realistic portraits, and more. What Is AI Art? Also called generative art or computation art, AI art refers to the creation or enhancement of artwork using AI tools.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

Over the last four articles of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game , I’ve talked about a lot of things that are more complicated than you’d think. That includes the unexpected depth of the board game industry as well as the surprising variety of responsibilities which a self-publishing developer must handle.

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Moonmana

APRIL 24, 2023

Discover the phenomenon of web3 IPs that, unlike traditional gaming platforms, allow players to engage with gaming in ingenious ways. What is Web3 gaming? The world of gaming is wonderful indeed. We’re talking about web 3 gaming. What are the key features of Web3 gaming?

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