Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. Thanks to groundbreaking technology advancements, developers can now take advantage of cutting-edge software and game engines which enable them to create fantasy worlds in video games.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Video games today are far more immersive than ever, and that isn’t simply because consoles and PCs have gotten more powerful. A lot of the beauty and appeal in modern games comes down to a less quantifiable factor: Atmosphere. Compare two games Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. Turns out, if your game design is a little lacking, all you need to do is spackle on a bit of "Make bars fill up to make numbers get bigger to make bars fill up." Designers think making an RPG is easier than it is.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. No, you would not.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. Art Style To talk about the characteristics of this art style, we must start at its origin.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Rules provide directions on how to execute activities within a game.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Likewise, art history buffs tapped into the declining prestige of Jackson Pollock. To a diehard sports fan or competitive gamer, winning the fantasy sports league provides emotional value on top of the financial value of any prize money. For a market game designer, revealing information should be an orchestrated event.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The interface, and the art style in general look very ‘Supercelly’.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Castle Clash by IGG, War Dragons by Pocket Gems and Art of Conquest by Lilith all came down between 15 to 35 percent compared to 2019. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. Card Battlers used to be a sub-genre led by Hearthstone.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The stunning Cruising Pavilion installation at the 2018 Venice Biennale My previous cruising game The Tearoom focused on the emotional and psychological aspects of cruising, and eventually went on tour with the fantastic group art exhibition Cruising Pavilion. So for example, instead of redeeming two men for a +3.0

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