iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment. This article will explain about Game Art Studios and what it means for the future of gaming! What is a Game Art Studio?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

She is currently transitioning into a new role as a social media and community lead at the American-based 3D Art Academy, Art Heroes. ” Concept art by Cassie Simpson Simpson loved to draw but never considered it as a potential career. In grade 10 I took art as a subject. Hard skills that I could make a living with.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Compelling puzzles And so the team built the game around the story. The gameplay mechanics and puzzles all came from the question ‘what fun things could we mess with inside a phone’. We ended up kind of struggling to really create a sense of progression and compelling puzzles.” Absolutely! Lucie then added them.”

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DameDev.tv

JANUARY 22, 2024

This remake retains the essence of the original while offering a fresh experience with updated mechanics and deeper narrative elements. Hi-Fi Rush Hi-Fi Rush stands out with its vibrant art style and rhythm-based gameplay. The game's focus on exploration, puzzle-solving, and character interactions has garnered widespread acclaim.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But we know that if you get the player engaged or focused on something in the world – a puzzle or environmental storytelling -then they’re very susceptible to being suddenly scared. Molly Maloney: One of the great things about video games is the expectation of training mechanics. Alan Wake 2 will be released on October 27.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

And so, the duo started exploring different ways to turn talking into a puzzle. Press B to express Doubt’, for example, is a classic case of mismatch between gameplay scenario and mechanical input. That’s where Script Compass comes in.” “But there is also a wider significance to the hand-crafted art style.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That’s how I worked on the level design and puzzles in Raccoo Venture, for example. Although the levels often underwent changes after testing in the 3D environment, when you start to feel the dynamics of the level and the puzzles. There it will go through another polishing stage until reaching an acceptable product.

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 20, 2023

This National Writing Day let’s celebrate the art of storytelling and the impact of words in games. With an sweet anthropomorphic art style that contrasts a dark and compelling storyline. You navigate the pages of Izzy’s diary, where written words materialise in the form of platforms and puzzles.

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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. Dark Crypt. Terra Ventura.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. King Robert (left) and King Richard (right). Wonder how they will expand their Royal-verse.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet.

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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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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. To sell in this awfully noisy, competitive board gaming environment, you have to have mechanics and art that people really enjoy. On the note of mechanics, we were really lucky.

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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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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 23, 2023

To build a truly immersive gaming environment, a team of designers, developers, artists and programmers employ a combination of psychology, art and technology into video games that challenge and capture players, resulting in satisfying gameplay. It is essential to define game mechanics, which refers to the systems that guide gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Through a series of cookery puzzles and dialog choices, players are immersed in Tamil culture, and the family’s emotive saga. He and art director Sam Elkana decided from the beginning not to dilute the game’s original vision. To pursue storytelling through play mechanics.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On the other hand, playing Tasty Humans has short turns, which helps the game stay snappy even though it’s a brain-burny puzzle game. one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And that is having the ad monetization mechanics. This mechanics is comprised of rewarded videos or interstitials or even banners, which we are not using due to their relatively poor performance. Best Fiends is a puzzle game. So in the sense, making the new mechanic familiar with the art of a game they are already playing.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They’re masters in the art of keeping users engaged and happy. But if you haven’t, it’s the act of taking gaming elements and mechanics and applying them to your non-gaming app. Mix in quizzes and puzzles. Do some market research and test if a new feature or mechanic will work with your audience. What is gamification?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 25, 2019

RPGs won’t scratch the board gamer itch for puzzles or crunchy heavy board games. While the amount of mechanics that can be applied to board games is finite, the number of possible expressions when combined with themes in nearly infinite. It’s an art form. A well-made board game is an elegant system.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I then created a new project and empty level, built the width of that straight section and started recording the motorcycle and vehicle actions using game mechanics and take recorder. City Sample Demo 3D environment. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map.

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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. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

First, we have the universe level where you establish things like game mechanics, abilities, characters, locations, statistics and so on. GameDaily: How do I, as someone with no coding experience and a lack of artistic talent, go about making a game in Adventure Forge? Jordan Weisman: It works on a couple of different levels.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. In most gaming companies this happens much later in the production schedule, once the art style is already defined and the game is getting closer to soft launch.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

Earlier the game players were constricted to play online games such as simple puzzles to adventures series only on the desktop, but the massive development of mobile technology within the past few years has brought a noticeable change in the game application development industry. This tool offers users with documentation and tutorials.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

link] Concept Art. Much like our concept art team, our 3D modelers put in a ton of work this sprint to create fresh designs that will replace a bunch of the existing assets featured in the Kristala demo. We can't wait to go back again next year! Check it out! 3D Modeling. Stay tuned!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Both are a mix of art and science. And games haven't been the most value-driven industry in my opinion (referring to the abuse of addictive mechanics in games for profit, massive company layoffs to meet financial targets and the pressure on teams to deliver, leading to crunch and toxic behaviours, etc.). Do you have a concept in mind?”

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

At the $10 subscription level, patrons get my "Raw Game Design" podcast where I discuss actual design problems in the middle of solving for my games, as well as some sneak peeks at art. It has all real and beautiful art, not placeholder, and the rest of the factions to follow very soon.

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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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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. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] Rigging / Animation.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. Rather, the ‘atmosphere’ of any game is a combination of many things: art, sound, post-processing effects, story, dialogue, and more. All of this can add to the atmosphere.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. The beautiful and cartoonish art style might seem a bit childish, but cute fantasy has been effective in products oriented to a mature audience (Merge Dragons, Evermerge, Dragon City…).

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Concept Art. Now that our concept art team has nearly completed the designs for all existing assets and items in the Kristala build that needed to be replaced with fresh assets, they're now able to move on to creating brand new items that don't yet have 3D counterparts. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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