Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. Mechanically, the mode is relatively similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I argued then that we need to stop assuming that a game’s theme or SETTING determines its meaning and, instead, that meaning comes from the mechanics themselves. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about games which do a good job of constructing meaning from their mechanics and also about ones which do it poorly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Martial Law by @GroupFixer tells a story about Poland in the communist era, family, and making choices – all with gorgeous pixel art. s soundtrack seems pretty fitting anyway for this fast-paced "die and retry" runner with a beautiful art direction! Mechanic 8230. Martial Law. Terra Ventura. The Ballad of Bonky.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. This is the art for Spectrum in War Co., is the art.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

Game Art: Fashion Innovations The art of Dislyte is a manifesto from “the future”. Vaporwave was an online artistic movement started in 2010 that used psychedelic elements in art and electronic music. Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha. Scenic design inspired by vaporwave.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Depending on the type of IP you want to license, collaborations also provide an opportunity to freshen up your narrative elements and gameplay mechanics. How well does the franchise – if it’s a film or TV show, for example – lend itself to your gameplay mechanics? Does it match your target demographic?

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). It has all real and beautiful art, not placeholder, and the rest of the factions to follow very soon. Instead.it's fun.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 9, 2021

Art by @nadi_bulochka About colour and light Light Throughout the director's filmography, his philosophy of guiding his characters through an impenetrable darkness peeks through. If you pay attention to all the camera passes and movement in general, you will easily notice that these are purely mechanical movements. We love movies here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s again taking a super simple addictive core game but actually pairing it with a simplified progression mechanic and some amount of live operations. And the progression mechanic result in in-app purchases. As a result, you have a game that players play for months, instead of days. But is this really a scalable future?

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Martial arts one-on-one fighting games have been a staple for consoles and arcades dating back to the 1980s. While there were games like Karate Champ that helped popularize the genre, it was Street Fighter in 1987 that really set the tone for what would come for Martial Arts games over the following three decades.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Concept Art. Wanna know more about this baddies and get a glimpse behind our art process? They're super skilled at creating mechanically beautiful weapons and armor adorned with gears, sprogs, and tons of bronze. You can listen to our episode of the Game Raven Review podcast right meow! Programming.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. No matter how cool the art, players have no use for Prophet Minera.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight! link] Concept Art. We can't wait to go back again next year! Check it out!

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Popular Games Made In Unreal Engine Fortnite Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and distributed as three different game modes using the same engine, so each one has similar graphics, art assets, and game mechanics. Deus Ex The year is 2052, and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Since I was a child, I always found myself surrounded by art, because most of my family were artists (ballet dancers, painters, musicians). One day I discovered video games could be much more than just ‘entertainment products’, and fell in love with the idea of mixing all the things I loved about art in a new medium.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I'm currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves. I love that quest.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Path of Exile is the current state of the art for RPG addition engines. The Deceptively Tricky Art of RPGs I've noticed something over the decades. There is an art to this genre, something I can say since I have achieved mild success working in it. The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. SIGN ME UP!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. However, when people think of storytelling in games, they think of theme, story, art, components, and even box design. ” I’ll see a piece of art or hear an ancient myth and – boom – I’m inspired.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Money sink.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That’s because these new tiered purchase options include an old fan favorite, luck mechanics! This mix of offers, from gem or IAP, tiered or stand alone content, to me seems like either they developers were testing the player base or new mechanics. However, it's a first for Brawl Stars, and right at a moment when it is most needed.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.” We’ll see players talk about features they’d like to see or suggest mechanics, and if our idea is sound, we bring it up in a team discussion to see if we want to include it into the game.”

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. The only way to go is to perfect the art production and art outsourcing. Always look to decrease production cost by simplifying the art style. 1 Idle RPGs will drive the genre growth.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Core game loop is a base of your game’s mechanics, that will be repeated by the player. Here’s an example of a core loop in a very simple game focused on fighting monsters: Core game loop does not need to consist of one single loop, it can be made of multiple ones that overlap each other. Core game loop. Assets & animations.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In hindsight, we missed the mark in some areas, and nailed it in others Genre / Mechanic: I don’t believe abstract analogs in an crafting system works. My 4 / 5 ended up a 2 / 5] Target Demographic: We were wrong to assume our casual mechanics and style alone would bring in a female audience. So what ended up happening?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

gatcha mechanic, piggy bank, etc.). Disney and Electronic Arts both spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire companies in the space. It’s important to move away from the mindset that subscriptions are just an auto-renewal mechanism for discounted IAP. Zynga saw its valuation reach over $10 billion. Lifetime rewards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I'd like to talk about the design behind it, but we really have to start with the art. Starting by telling you about the art may seem superficial, and maybe it is, but the art in this game is so notable—such a breakthrough—that I think it deserves special attention. It's hard to play other fighting games without Burst.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. There’s no reliance on overly realistic, gameplay-affecting survival mechanics like limb injuries, hunger, or thirst.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past year, Hypercasual saw massive diversification in terms of core mechanic design. But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

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. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In the trailer, you can tell that these two siblings are fighting a lot. As you watch the trailer more, the game’s art is beautiful. There won’t be any huge mechanics to show in the game, but a little nice story for you to enjoy. So that means I can expand the game just a tad more with the art!

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Overview This lesson is focused on adding some art assets to represent our combatants. We will also provide a tile based room for them to fight in. A flag named flipDirection helps me know which way the art is facing so I can flip it if needed. We will add animated sprites to represent both a hero and monster.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

This is a huge one, and arguably it’s important to many kinds of games, and other forms of art as well. It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. Sense of wonder. This isn’t the fault of players.

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