Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! Acquiring more Leader tiles gives the player more to try to balance. The Race to the Finish.

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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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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Game developers look for ways to improve online multiplayer experience while balancing availability and cost effectiveness. We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. Build containerized game servers with AWS Developer tools.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Hypercasual Trend #1 The Rise of Feel-Good Mechanics Ultracasual is the youngest subgenre within Hypercasual and it seems to have peaked in 2020. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Nothing new really.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

While the rescue mission continues in the background, Stamets and Tarka build a to-scale model of the DMA, based on the assumption that the item has a control mechanism. They work together to build their model, and despite the intense power drain, they come very, very close to recreating the DMA.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. It worked extremely well from a mechanical perspective, which is all we needed for early MP testing before the game even had characters, families, and events.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Both titles featured PUBG’s signature battle royale gameplay and mechanics ported to the mobile format, though the two studios had different approaches. Why does Call of Duty Mobile retain so well?

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

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. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. And the battles kind of suck. That would be bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. The second largest sub-genre is the good and old Build & Battle. Signup for the newsletter.

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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. Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. This is a game of building a deck of cards.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

So I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that "learned" how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. It mimics the crowd simulation systems used by real-world architects to test building and street circulation. Landscapes also have programs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, even back then, Chinese players would spend a substantial amount of money in microtransactions which, thanks to a massive gamer population, were driving multiple franchises above the annual billion dollar revenue mark, making the free-to-play model the only way to build a viable business.

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