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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

She is currently transitioning into a new role as a social media and community lead at the American-based 3D Art Academy, Art Heroes. I wanted to learn techniques that not everyone knows like coding and animations. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take.

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How To Overcame Post-Launch Slump - The Case of Merge Garden

Deconstructor of Fun

Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. The core gameplay was true and tested Match-3 puzzle while the meta game was merge inspired. As a reward for joining events, you get to assemble a puzzle, which has been a popular mechanic lately.

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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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Friday Questions #3

Grumpy Gamer

PiecesOfKate: Considering the potential benefits of social media (such as Twitter) for promoting a game, versus your personal dislike of those channels - if you were to make another game would you rejoin, or avoid it? Lancelot's Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn't work.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

Common answers are: Everyone, e.g.: this is a nice puzzle, tower defense, casual, etc. a fighting game), is animation. You didn't spent that much yet, as this was only done with mostly programmers and one or two artists/animators/game designers. Elaborated below: 1) Who will play the game? until you hit the Alpha stage.