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

PreMortem.Games

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. Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M Tiles Hop: EDM Rush!,

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Rivals are supposed to win the slot-cars-like race set in a variety of worlds. To recreate the feeling of slot car racing the camera is set above the track, but using perspective view caused problems with visibility. What’s more, it’s easy to imitate movement by creating a simple animation, as we did in the booster’s model.

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Board Game Review: Terraforming Mars

Brand Game Development

Like the animals, ants, microbes, all that stuff. From Board Game Geek. Phase 4: Production Phase. Once everyone completes all the actions they want to (or, if you’re like me, you run out of money), then the “Action Phase” ends.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

3D animations have seen an internal overhaul, allowing for compression to reduce memory usage, as well as individual position, rotation, and scale tracks in place of united transforms. Read more about animation changes in this blog post by Juan. Among them is the new animation retargeting system.

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A Crash Course in Board Games

Brand Game Development

Remember that no marathoner ever finished a race before sweating and huffing through their first belabored mile many months – or years – prior. ” That means card games, dice games, miniature games, and tile-based games also fall under the purview of what is frequently called “board games.” What is a game?

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2020 Predictions #1: Prepare to Crown the New King of Puzzle Games

Deconstructor of Fun

Tile Blast games, defined largely by Peak Games, continued smooth sailing. Peak is stable and controls its sub-genre of tile blasting. Rovio’s Angry Birds Dream Blast was a great fresh take combining tile blasting and physical puzzle. Bubble Shooters also continued to decline in terms of revenue despite growth of downloads.

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