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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

Game Refinery

If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay.

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Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code - A Valuable Learning Resource for 3D Game Development

Cocos

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. It can be used as a useful learning resource for game development as well as a solid foundation for building new games.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.2 LTS has been released!

Cocos

Dear Cocos Developers, Thank you all for your patience and valuable feedback during the public testing of version 3.8.2. Adapting the engine repository development environment to NodeJS 18.x. Exposed the mechanism for building custom panel plugins to the public, examples have been updated in the build plugin template.

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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Is it heat, wind, light, acidity, soil sugar content, or any of the previous puzzle mechanics we spent the last 2 hours tutorializing? What affects this plant's color?

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop, Part 1

Designer Notes

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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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

In this episode of Gamecamole, we will investigate Cookie Run: Kingdom from the South Korean developer Devsister, a card battling RPG mobile game that became a cultural phenomenon in 2021. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics.

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Crazy and Fun Time Management Kitchen Game

Logic Simplified

Front-end Developer - 3. Back-end Developer - 2. Tap to grill, bake and prepare dishes to the top. As cooking games have a tremendous user retention rate, the client wanted to hire an offshore game development company to develop a 2D kitchen gaming app. App Platform. iOS and Android. Time Duration of Project.

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