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Is your baby ugly? We took ours out to find out.

Rindoku

Carmen Palade – Animation. Still too much clicking required. The game still requires constant clicking, even more than Diablo, and this is something we’ll have to solve. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art.

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

The adorable characters, detailed worldbuilding, and an animation style that is both refreshing and polished made it easy for players to immerse themselves in the world of Cookie Run and hard to leave. For a 2D game, animated cinematics can significantly help with storytelling in the main campaign.

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Fantasy Strike's Features

Sirlin

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. No more UI than that is needed.

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The Magic of ‘Legend Of Mushroom’

Deconstructor of Fun

When a player chooses not to equip a piece of gear, but rather to sell it, they then earn a combination of gold and experience points. These experience points are the primary way the player levels up their hero, so it is essential that the player acquires lamp pulls and sells the nonusable gear from the lamp pulls.

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On Backtracking in Roguelikes

Grid Sage Games

The Ground Gives Way has an especially interesting approach, having the dungeon’s statues come to life after you acquire the trombone relic (yes, trombone) at the bottom, and you have to escape without being killed by the animated statues or whatever other creatures might still be in the way because they weren’t dealt with before.

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How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

Deconstructor of Fun

Since the defender has no way to protect his coins during a raid, the odds are balanced for the attacker by limiting the total loot that can be stolen and also fragmenting the total loot across the defender’s base. Most definitely, all these supercharged systems of CM need to be weighed against a tightly balanced economy.

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