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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

Top 10 Games By Downloads Now, it’s time for a deep dive into the top 10 hypercasual games by downloads. As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing.

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Logic Simplified

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. Research: Research is important to the game design process.

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Gorilla Softworks’ debut game The Ancients aims for prehistoric realism

PreMortem.Games

The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where players lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization.

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3D Art Styles For Games

Moonmana

3D game artists utilize special software to create fantastic creatures and incredible locations going far beyond real world limits. It’s fair to say that 3D game art styles are used everywhere – in film and cartoon production, animation, interior design, and architecture fields, and especially in game development.

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The RPG Report, and the worst things in RPGs

Keith Burgun

I say more about each game on the podcast, so make sure to check that out. Kind of “adolescent anime” feeling story, a little silly and a little too fantastical in its basic universe for me, but seems well written. Here are some quick bullet points, though! Overly smoothed out, like most modern big production videogames.

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7 Ways to Drastically Improve Your LiveOps: Learning from Clockmaker

Deconstructor of Fun

Many game designers will instantly say: "How can we show the player the same thing? Yes, in an ideal world of paid games, this could be true: a unique gaming experience is played only once. This surprised us, as Clockmaker is a mystical game. They're not going to play it again.

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A Crash Course in Board Games

Brand Game Development

Let’s start from the ground up and talk about all the super simple basic elements that need to be understood to make great games. Remember that no marathoner ever finished a race before sweating and huffing through their first belabored mile many months – or years – prior. What is a game? You get the idea.

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