Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. Every few years I think about the concept again, and it finds its way into my ongoing notes in yet another location in some slightly-altered form or alongside some other content idea, begging to be implemented.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And are there potential challenges that developers should be aware of when using generative AI to build games? As the name suggests, generative artificial intelligence is a type of AI technology that can generate different types of content. This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Environment artist An environment artist creates a fantasy game world by adding buildings, landscapes, colorful backgrounds and props that match the game design. Let’s take the example of Candy Crush again.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously community interaction is quite important and still plays an ongoing role in development, as always, but at this point I feel it’s more important to focus on expanding content as much as possible. This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!)

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one!

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. If you balance things right, the choice isn’t always obvious and will depend on evaluating other factors at the time of the choice. That’s what makes it interesting.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. It’s the phase where anticipation builds up for the game’s grand entrance. Balancing creativity with project constraints is tricky. The 7 Odd Roadblocks!

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New mobs were also unveiled, including a wind -powered baddy called “Breeze” Additionally, players who love to craft, most especially when using the mechanical Redstone features, will enjoy the new Crafter feature, which simplifies and automates crafting. Last year, Microsoft said that more than 1.7

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Automation ensures that a wide range of game features, mechanics, and interactions are thoroughly tested, increasing the likelihood of detecting potential issues before the game’s release. It is crucial to strike a balance between automating repetitive tasks and allowing for exploratory testing to account for unforeseen scenarios.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

For example, if shadows are an important game mechanic (think of Splinter Cell ), then a higher cost for extra-nice ray-traced shadows makes sense, but spending extra performance on RT translucency probably doesn’t make as much sense. Note that you can access this content on demand.) Could you provide any insights into this problem?

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

By superimposing digital content onto the player’s view of the real world, AR offers a unique and engaging experience. This trend presents a unique challenge for developers, as it requires them to balance gameplay mechanics and technical capabilities to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for all players.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Between one job and another I always tried to include some type of content related to games. Throughout development, you may often be tempted to include incredible features and mechanics that weren’t originally planned, which can make the project’s completion elusive. Promote your game from the early stages of development.

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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 Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You have to build VR experiences the right way to make this happen. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. Not only does it help your team manage the workload, but it means you can roll out more content to keep your players engaged later.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

But what’s unique is that an actual villager needs to be assigned to the crafting building or construction site to finish the task. In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. And players can arrange their buildings’ positions to make resource transportation faster.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

For a quick and general introduction of the game, it’s a player vs player only CCG game, which limits your cards to only 10 per deck, each game is less than 4 minutes, and it uses a very simple poker-like betting mechanic to keep things interesting. However, Marvel Snap has simplified this mechanic to make it even more accessible.

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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. Categorical Approach.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Last Year’s Predictions - Scorecard.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. All this is fueled by some of the heaviest live content operations in the industry. To keep players coming back each season, each event -- there needs to be gameplay impacting content for players to enjoy. Signup for the newsletter.

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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. Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Making Early Content. Be sure to consider your Content Mix when you are backdating posts and scheduling future ones. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience. For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In many ways, Township has been the cornerstone for Playrix’s success as a title that allowed the company to build experience in live ops, analytics, and user acquisition. This allows players to not abide by a single way of progression, do anything and still continue to level up and unlock new content. product management.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

For stuff like gameplay balance and feature implementation we have equal input and chime up if there’s something we feel strongly about. Not only does this save a ton of texture memory and reduce draw calls, but it also sped up the creation process of parts, but admittedly at some cost of visual fidelity.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This guest post is written by Gordon Rowe , an experienced product leader that has spent 10 years building and operating free to play games on mobile, web, and consoles. My screen is rapidly filling with tiny objects waiting to be merged, and my builders are working overtime to keep up with the sudden rush of new buildings.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The entire mechanic revolves around a single new utility: the Scrap Engine. Although in both cases the results are indeed based on the inputs, the process is not deterministic, so it’s not a pure “crafting” mechanic in that sense. A new utility is born. Constructs can be power sources, propulsion, or weapons.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This is the main reason why mobile game businesses are extremely dependent on User Acquisition (UA), and mastering UA is crucial in building a highly scaled mobile app business. The key to success is balancing IPM and LTV, and making sure that the gains on the IPM side are higher than the losses on the LTV side of the equation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Hay Day Pop however shows that Supercell has learned their lessons and clearly understands how to build on the genre. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market. Both models start with an empty space and the player completes levels to afford to build it up.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cosmetics have included multiple new collection mechanisms that grant rewards when acquiring enough of a specific type. They also have included skins sets (collections of similar themed-skins) and a timed chest (piggy chest), which is upgraded through a building decoration system. Source: data.ai

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Using AWS and Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming, developers can create content with Unreal Engine and deploy it on Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) on either Windows or Linux. We will start off by building a custom horizontal scaling framework which will allow creation of signaling servers based on user session requests.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Then it’s largely up to game’s economy whether it can have a meaningful deep gatcha or a steady pipeline of content offered through a must-have battle pass mechanic. Riot has succeeded in building a brand that players trust. This balance opens the game up to several strategies as to how to play the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Building a brand Cilingir used League of Legends and Genshin Impact as examples of brands that have resonated outside games, and stressed that community-building has never been more important as it lowers your UA cost. So how should publishers think about launching new games right now?

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