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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024

AWS Games

The PM’s dilemma – Striking a healthy balance when managing live games : Product managers must be more efficient than ever in deploying resources and spending their time. Speakers included representatives from AAA studios Epic Games and Warner Bros Games Avalanche Software, and innovative startups like Sprocket Games and UneeQ.

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What does inflation mean for the games industry?

Gamesbrief

There are three major ways that we, as consumers, spend money on video games: We subscribe to services such as Gamepass, Apple Arcade or Netflix We buy “boxed product” games, for example: AAA titles in physical boxes or indie games on Steam We buy virtual currency or virtual items in free-to-play or service games. Subscriptions.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

Torchlight Infinite by XD Entertainment. Torchlight Inifinite is an ARPG (action roleplaying game), and the fourth title in the series made by XD Entertainment. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Just adding a unique theme or idea can make your title stand out from the ocean of games out there. Apex Legends Mobile by EA.

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Reflecting Upon the Last year in Blockchain Games

Deconstructor of Fun

There is also the fact that most of the big crypto investors who got rich through crypto hold most of their balance in Bitcoin. Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games.

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Battle Passes - Everything You Ought to Know and Then Some

Deconstructor of Fun

Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience. It’s also important to understand that Passes are not a straightforward feature to balance that can be applied to any game without risks.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Meanwhile, Aleksis is an entertaining character with a big complicated party setpiece that invokes past Arkane games and the game marketing.

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A race to the bottom on creator royalties?

Deconstructor of Fun

You should be fine as a player to be in that situation since you traded money for entertainment value just like any other game. So, it’s more of a question of how you want to balance your creator royalty against the trading volume.

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