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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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. Vikingard by Netease.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. This decouples the player's behavior from their character build. So these are leftover placeholders that lead to cut content. Wider, spread out, less dense.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Categorical Approach. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New content releases would drive intermittent spikes in revenue, that would push revenue up to between $500k and $750k. Many of these changes are centered around the Battlepass, which is a key content and goal driver for players: Battlepass changes Brawl Stars’ Brawl Pass, has seen many iterations over the last year or so.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 The new move disrupted this balance.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I was really unsure any of this would work at all, since internally it’s quite complex and therefore hard to gauge what outcomes are possible and whether they’d really fit into Cogmind, which has a pretty strong focus on design balance. Creating a construct and modifying one are two rather different processes. Construct Creation.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

The rule: Whenever an enemy attacks you, no matter what your character build, you have a reasonable chance of being able to evade the attack. Yet, when it matters, when you're in the fights, the meat of the game, you always have a fair chance. It is a very cool fight with very cool design. If you are naked, you can still win.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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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. You begin the game with a rusty, war-torn house that is slowly turning into a much more pleasant building with every level.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. Fighting Games. All are the same within the Fighting games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Killing content progresses the player onto further content which becomes more and more difficult for the player to kill. Players can level up each relic with excess relic shards, which they primarily acquired through a daily mini-game boss fight. Players are tasked with killing waves of minions and bosses.

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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. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The interesting part is that you can see all these statues on the way in, foreshadowing potentially difficult bottlenecks on the way out (assuming you can’t directly confront and outright destroy all the living statues, a decent assumption for many builds). Not universally so, to be sure, but grind tends to be more of a roguelite thing.

Point and Click 52

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance). Instead, a balanced team of one her per faction is pretty much all a player needs.

Puzzle 52

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio. This has led to a resurgence in the value of IP in the market, as it is now harder to get new users.

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Game Industry News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

She spent most of her life fighting a near-hopeless battle against a brutal occupying force, and now that the Bajorans have emerged as victors, she finds herself part of the government. Kira continues building Mullibok’s kiln as she thinks over the situation. The Noh-Jay Consortium story provides some balance here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. But it can also be a challenge as previous iterations from an over a decade ago build unrealistic expectations and place the bar very high. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game. The Sky Mavis team knows all this, which is why there are several new developments in the pipeline: a F2P version with (potentially) greater distribution, land, user-generated content, and more.

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Mechanics Balance Games Game Design 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This means that the player has to carefully build up big combinations on the board, at the right time, to max out the damage output. And because of that, it was never able to build a big enough LTV to face the insanely high CPIs of the puzzle or puzzle RPG genres. The full post can be found here. Why did these changes not work?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. The game achieves this by gradually increasing upgrade costs (and can get away with it since most upgrades feel meaningful) and by releasing new town halls, unlocking new levels of buildings and units (plus new ones).

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good. One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. And the battles kind of suck. Let’s talk about that.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players.

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Tile Point and Click Games Art 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

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. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019. For some games, this is a 1-time IAP.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013. This analysis is written by Adam Telfer , Om Tandon and Nate Ross.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. Normal levels (node 1 and 3) are combined with an angel offer (2) and further support in node 4 before the boss fight.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Similar to viewing a base and choosing where to attack in mid-core Build & Battle games, one can choose which opponent structure to attack. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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