Brand Game Development

MAY 13, 2019

Everything can be scrapped at a moment’s notice – mechanics, rules, art, and even basic core concepts. You come up with basic ideas, find physical pieces to represent those ideas, and come up with game mechanics. Then you regulate the expression of those mechanics through rules. Art direction is complicated.

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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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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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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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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

Chaumette acknowledged the issue but pointed out that “it takes every single frame of Avatar, of every Disney movie, of every movie you’ve ever seen, which collectively is maybe probably billions of times more than individual art pieces.”

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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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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Well, one part of the appeal of games is that they can theoretically simulate the real world and teach us about it, that we can make choices and see those choices be modelled accurately. These games could only simulate a faulty understanding of how baseball works. Let’s say someone wanted to test this theory with a baseball simulation.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 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. Art and storytelling Physical experience and storytelling Parting advice. Playtesting storytelling.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Animation is the art of breathing life into the inanimate for films, games, and advertising. 2D Animation is the art of creating movement by combining a sequence of images together in a two-dimensional space. 3D Animation is the art of bringing digital characters, vehicles, props, and full scenes to life in a virtual 3D space.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 11, 2022

There’s no programming involved and all the art needed is given to you to make games quickly. There are complex design I have to think about when designing a game mechanic. Let me break down what that cumbersome of a job I had to do in order to get that farming mechanic implemented to the best of this engine could do.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!) months, and a massive set of new toys, challenges , revamped mechanics , and more. Cogmind Beta 11 release art, by Zyalin. So we’re done, right? Ready to do that Beta 12 map? WARLORD FOREVER!

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Brand Game Development

JULY 28, 2017

This week, when trying to provide art directions to James, I remembered an additional pitfall that is an especially prescient and intense problem for self-publishers. Every game mechanic, every piece of art, and every marketing endeavor ultimately comes down to your decisions. The board art is nearly done.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It involves creating mechanics that determine how players interact with the game. One of my games, Tasty Humans , on Tabletop Simulator. You’ll start out playing your game by yourself, simulating other players. Game design involves creating a game with a core engine that drives the gameplay at a fundamental level.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Playing games exposes you to mechanics and design trends. That means you’ll want to play games that are new and old, for large groups and small groups, and ones that have all sorts of different mechanics. As long as you still have a broadband connection, you can download Tabletop Simulator , a $19.99

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD is an open-scene description with APIs for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline?

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I wanted a colony sim where other settlements around you aren’t just a static backdrop, but parts of a living, simulated world. 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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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. Sean: Guidelines for writing good rules really boils down to learning the art of instruction and communication. I’d say the main tool set for understanding and wielding that art form is empathy.

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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? Simulation RPG Vikingard collaborates with TV show, Vikings.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But before we continue, we want to remind you that here we promote the love of art and try to inspire you to take your camera and make a short film. Art by @nadi_bulochka Editing transitions Cinematography is a great mechanism to deceive the viewer. After all, this darkening seems to simulate the way the human gaze is focused.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But before we continue, we want to remind you that here we promote the love of art and try to inspire you to take your camera and make a short film. Art by @nadi_bulochka Let's define SFX, shall we? Rambaldi designed the monster's head, which included 900 moving parts and mechanisms, to make it frighteningly realistic.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Of course, the flip side of this is that having your game examined by serial play-testers, game designers, and the occasional publisher makes for a far better test than 10 or 15 with your family, online through Tabletop Simulator, or even at your local game store. They look for mechanics and general play-ability. You’ll be okay.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Cars are moving on the invisible Bezier Paths to simulate slot cars-like mechanics of movement, and it allows us to control the behavior of cars – we were able to decide when it should fall of the track or jump through a ramp. Another challenge we had to undertake was optimization.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 23, 2021

Art by @nadi_bulochka Cinematic realism He puts his main effort into upholding his basic principle: movies should look as realistic as possible. In order to do so, he had to come up with different designs and lighting schemes to simulate space. He has worked alongside Christopher Nolan, Sam Mendes, Spike Jonze and David O.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise. Much of the pixel art is from the gorgeous 64x64 tileset by Yar.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The basic idea of the core engine is “what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.” The game’s mechanics center around that.

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Keith Burgun

DECEMBER 7, 2022

There are simulators like Archidekt and many others, which simulate the outcomes of a deck, and some have argued that it’s more interesting to just simulate the outcomes of two decks than it is to actually play the game (this may be a bit of an overstatement, but the point is there). That’s quite an achievement.

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Game Daily

JUNE 28, 2023

Narrative clarity The art-style and narrative clarity of smash indie hit Night in the Woods is clear in the game’s story-telling approach. But in general, they tend towards the mechanical and humorous, like Two Point Hospital, in which players have to build medical facilities, or Surgeon Simulator, which has fun with surgery techniques.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

The main consideration to keep top of mind is for the ray-traced effects to work hand-in-hand with the goals of your game’s art direction. This will change what performance costs are reasonable for any given effect. What are your top three favorite graphics papers of all time?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

You’re selling art. Not art like artwork, but art like a beautifully made gift of your heart and soul. A designer usually starts with the simplest possible prototype – often either pen and paper or on an online testing tool such as Tabletop Simulator. until the game feels great. Game Production.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Also, you may not be able to simulate player behaviors accurately. Generative AI can help during game testing by simulating player behavior and identifying bugs in real time. For instance, they assist in generating game concepts, gameplay mechanics, and art assets. And that’s where generative AI comes in handy.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

Let’s dive in deeper and learn how these incredible works of art and technology are made. These engines offer powerful rendering capabilities, physics simulations, and asset management systems necessary for creating realistic virtual environments. Why is AR/VR different?

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I knew that if I could get the simulation capture process figured out in the City Sample Demo, I could make my own environment in the future and use the same workflow. I conducted research and gathered references of inspiring chase scenes and other Unreal artists' work. City Sample Demo 3D environment.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I wait until I have all the art assets I need. It’s too much of a pain in the butt to try to do this on Tabletop Simulator and you need data based on the real physical experience. The drafting mechanic allows for players to plan their road trips to a limited degree. All art is done.

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Game Designing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the world of video games, few people have played as large of a role in progressing video games as an art form as Hideo Kojima. Beyond pushing video games artistically, Kojima has also worked to push video games mechanically. He often tries to pioneer new gameplay ideas and ways for players to interact with the game world.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Now onto the differences… A new way to define ‘casual player vs player’ (PvP) The biggest glaring difference between the two games is the new attack mechanic that is baked into the natural linear progression and appears every 10 levels. It’s an additional visual progression mechanic, which we know works well for the audience.

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