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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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There are other ways to build a game on a budget. This time, we’ll look at the top games that use storytelling as a core mechanic and show you that you don’t need sparkling design and intense gameplay to create a hit. Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists.

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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. This will change what performance costs are reasonable for any given effect.

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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Zynga started as the champion of simulations games, but has somehow become the puzzle underdog, growing by acquisitions to tackle even larger foes. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Last Year’s Predictions - Scorecard.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation. Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2024

In the realm of game development, the backend is often likened to the unsung hero working tirelessly behind the scenes, powering the intricate mechanics that make our favorite games tick. Load balancing : Distributing player traffic across multiple servers to ensure that no single server becomes overloaded, accounting for regional latency.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel.” RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. It looked really exciting to me”, he says. Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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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. In 2019 Tycoon games, which are sub-genre of the simulation genre, grew revenue by 22%. Community Buildings = Higher Population cap: Needed to build more houses.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the “single-player market” may sound like an oxymoron, innovative games like Shop Titans and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator tell stories through their in-game markets. For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Without them, a 4X game suddenly becomes an aimless simulation where the players set their own goals. Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Indeed, I generally view victory conditions as a necessary evil.

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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).

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Both titles featured PUBG’s signature battle royale gameplay and mechanics ported to the mobile format, though the two studios had different approaches. As an example, Call of Duty Heroes was a base-building/RTS title that incorporated characters from across the franchise. Battle Royale mode involving up to 100 players in COD Mobile.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Ranked Mode Builds Tournaments On-the-fly Most ranked modes do matchmaking by computing your matchmaking rating number, then finding an opponent for you with as close of a number as possible so that you’ll have as close to a 50-50 match with them as possible. Fantasy Strike ranked mode is a rough simulation of this excitement.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

Although in most games, at least usually one or two systems are kind of fully-cooked; in this one… probably the most polished and complete thing about the game is one of the minigames (the business simulator was pretty impressive). One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. And the battles kind of suck.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. By the end of the game, that threat has disappeared and your build is fun and OP. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. Further, getting zero damage from the boss spawns a devil that offers usually a pretty good ability in exchange for some HP — a mechanic borrowed from Binding of Isaac. Cumulative Archero revenues, with ad revenues not included | Source: App Annie.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

demoed his technology around 2018, which is specifically around making 3D kind of scenes and world building with A.I.” AI in Art: Balancing Creativity and Ethics In the realm of digital art, AI technology is stirring up a mix of excitement and controversy. This shift could have both positive and negative consequences.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur. For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch.

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