Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Analysts have widely reported developers’ ongoing challenges with user acquisition targets as they wrestle with stricter app tracking policies, especially on Apple devices. These mechanics are unconventional for a racing game but aren’t surprising. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I'm excited to share that Menace got selected as a finalist for The Rookie Awards 2023, as well as a DNEG finalist. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map. Join the future of filmmaking, content creation, and game development! REAL-TIME 3D COURSES

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since the game was released, gamers worldwide have been racing to learn as many BG3 facts as possible. How long has Baldur’s Gate 3 been in development? Baldur’s Gate 3 has been in development for six years. The fact is that many global events influenced the pace of development. Why this sudden shift?

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

The developers were able to combine the best of the two previous versions of Castlevania in this game, creating an icon for the ages. This game didn’t sell as developers had expected, but a big reason was that the television program it was based on had stopped grabbing the audience’s attention. GT Advance Championship Racing.

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Nvidia

JUNE 9, 2023

Algorithms for surface reconstruction appear in various applications, such as industrial simulation, video game development, architectural design, medical imaging, and robotics. Reconstructed geometry of a long race track Figure 4. These scenes were captured using an autonomous vehicle equipped with a lidar sensor.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

By understanding these complexities, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics shaping the contemporary gaming landscape and explore potential pathways for future growth and development. At the same time, they are, perhaps for the first time in history, expecting development budgets to decrease. Yet this did not materialize.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2024

In 2023, Abubakar rebranded his company from Silver Rain Games to Surgent Studios to expand Tales of Kenzera into various mediums beyond games. He explains, “Surgent Studios is all about telling stories inspired by human truth, beyond race or gender. They are all interconnected in various ways.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

E pic’s user-generated content (UGC) domination has required thousands of employees and 5 years of development but pays off with 40% of player game time and $350M generated from creator worlds. Mediatonic must cherry-pick UGC rounds to appear on the main menu, although the team reports working on discoverability throughout 2023.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

Comparing total downloads of Q2 2023 to Q1 2023, we see a decrease of about 5%. A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. The smallest fall of 6% concerns all the other countries combined (similarly to Q1 2023). The market has shrunk from 3.9B installs over the past three months.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. What is Unreal?

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

To this day, game developers continue to blend already existing genres, sub-genres, and types in new and surprising ways to provide players with more options. This video game genre includes sub-genres like racing, combat, team and sports-based fighting game. Racing Games In racing games, the players take part in a racing competition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Being located in Istanbul just like the original developer of Zen Match , Spyke Games must have been inspired by their success story. Adding the fact that some of the co-founders worked at Peak (that developed two successful blast titles in Toy Blast & Toon Blast ), they went ahead with their own take on the Tile Match subgenre.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Along with the pre-order already live for the release in February 2023, the game is garnering a lot of traction in the media. Although that is the case, the player can indeed use brooms to traverse the huge expanse of the game and for broom races.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. On the other hand, it leads to a quite unstable business where you might have to pivot after a year of development. However, the hard part lies in experimenting with everything except the game development itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! It lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom. If you’re not one of the 11,000 subscribers of our newsletter, tap here! Missed a previous newsletter? Signups are live now.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When game developer and publisher Milestone released a third-person racing game based on Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy line, “Hot Wheels Unleashed,” in September 2021, it quickly gained a dedicated following. By April 2023, Milestone had sold more than two million copies , and the game registered more than eight million active players.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. ” Why did you become a solo developer?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

In the premium game model there is no real concern if the price of an individual premium game goes to 0 on the secondary market because that market is not owned or connected to the developer in any way. Doing this without kicking off a “race to the bottom” positive feedback loop which takes asset prices close to zero is a non-trivial problem.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! The Real Danger of the Microsoft's Activision Deal & 2023 Predictions for Blockchain Games. In October, Playtika confirmed it had closed Best Fiends developer Seriously , with nearly all of its 120 staff affected.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion in revenue it will generate in 2023. The result of the two issues above being fixed is that we now have an unprecedented console games release calendar in 2023. Despite the recent layoffs, the gaming industry is booming with critically acclaimed titles and sales records being broken left and right! year-on-year increase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A tale of two halves: H1 and H2 of 2022 During the last quarter of 2021, almost every successful blockchain game had one thing in common: They were developed by crypto native teams who were well versed in the blockchain technology, but lacked experience in game development. Predictions for 2023: What comes next?

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