Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As exciting as that was—let’s be real, the Orions are one of those species overdue for some development—watching Tendi learn how to balance her history as a prime assassin and her current reality as a science nerd has been great. She’s perfectly content living according to her Orion mores and values.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. Generating Game Content Every video game features countless unique models, animations, sounds, graphics, and more. Producing these assets takes a long time and a lot of money.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. 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. It’s also defined a bit differently.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

When all the aspects are imbibed and when the developers are content about the performance of the game app, it will succeed in the market. Therefore, the balance between simplicity and complexity is what is expected by the users, any game that satisfies this aspect is bound to succeed. Is It Easy To Balance Simplicity And Complexity?

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Smart Fox Server

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this article we are going to explore several ways to use the open source HAProxy load balancer in conjunction with SFS2X , to increase the scalability and availability of a multiplayer project. Round robin Load Balancing. After a few seconds the load balancer should be up and running. Introducing HAProxy.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. We love the concept. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can. And despite Net Fishing!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

The relative success of Belka Games’ Clockmaker demonstrates an appetite for different kinds of meta concepts, choosing to focus on resource management combined with a mystery narrative. The goal is to engage most valuable players without overly straining the content treadmill. 2021 is the year when this will really change.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2021

This game is likely straightforward to balance, but it’s not very creative for the players to play. This of course entails that Supercell is able to attract players at a manageable cost, retain them with existing and new content - and most importantly, monetize them. We’d be equally terrified to balance a more player-friendly game.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

It was a very tranquil concept at first, though we found our prototype didn’t offer enough things for the player to do.” For stuff like gameplay balance and feature implementation we have equal input and chime up if there’s something we feel strongly about.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art.

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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. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Real Programming

AUGUST 2, 2023

A few elements front-end developers oversee on static websites include: Button Layouts Navigation Images Content organization Graphics Animation These are visible to users and therefore fall to front-end developers. We start off lessons by emphasizing fun first and foremost while providing the basic mathematical concepts and coding knowledge.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Tilly’s approach reminds me of a concept in criminal jurisprudence known as restorative justice. That’s a good balance to strike, and it’s a nice note for a midseason episode. If you’re looking for more Trek content, feel free to check out the podcast on which I’ve been working here.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The concept of a mobile game is worth thousands or even millions of dollars, which may not be enough. The mobile game monetization concept is simple – it’s about making money from the game. Providing regular updates, incentivizing events, and delivering fresh content are some common strategies adopted to keep players engaged.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

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. Research different game themes and art styles The first step is researching different game themes in order to find the highest converting concept for a specific game mechanic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The podcast unfolds an engaging conversation that delves into the challenges aspiring entrepreneurs face, the distinguishing traits of successful founders, and the timeless topic of work-life balance. This summary only provides a glimpse of the podcast's valuable content. This is really a very logical concept. Nick says no.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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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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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. The first iteration simply averaged together the stats of all the input items.

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Big Games

AUGUST 27, 2021

One of the main reasons for the increased growth in mobile game development is because of the concept of instant games. These outsourcing companies have an exclusive team of professionals who are skilled in the concepts and technologies of their own field. And this industry shows unlimited growth possibilities to its audiences.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

The update has been received with mixed reactions in social networks , with players praising the gameplay additions and big amount of new playable content, but disliking the strong focus on loot boxes. KPIs are significantly below hits like Marvel Snap or Clash Royale , and the game is still below the category leader TeamFight Tactics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Their attempt with Spooky Pop likely informed some of the good decisions that led to HDP: balancing known wins and innovation, testing a recognizable and previously loved IP and following best practices from top casual games. Florian Steinhoff has a great GDC talk about the balance of levels here. Obstacles are low complexity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

A key reason is that Clash Mini seems in a much earlier and rough state than other Supercell soft launches : Less playable content, less spending depth, and several unfinished systems (i.e. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. No reason to play leagues…).

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“I loved the concepts, the design. ” He subtly points to the age-old debate about work-life balance and the perceived differences between American and European professional cultures. Such exclusive content often ranges from in-game items like skins and talismans to digital rewards like wallpapers and physical media.

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

It should also have a perfect balance of academic activities to enrich knowledge and earn practical skills for future employment. Selection of programs offered: VFX 3D Animation Game Cinematic Motion Graphic Content Production and Character Design 3. It must encourage collaboration among students. It also has a campus in Busan.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

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. That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. ? Just in that third screenshot alone there are so many concepts which feel new and confusing. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. No, and in fact the concept of seeding exists specifically to prevent that from happening. Notice that this isn’t just about poorly balanced games. Even the best balanced asymmetric game will suffer this fate.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) Being able to refer back to an entire immutable history of player interactions with prior maps and their content, developers are able to more easily build sturdy plot lines that are harder to disrupt, for example. Meta Complexity.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

I was content to move Civ 4 back to a top-down chess-board grid and away from the visually misleading isometric squares of Civs 2-3 , where horizontal and vertical distances were separated by a factor of two.). Indeed, many have commented that Civ 5 finally made hexes safe for video games.

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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. When it comes to heroes Puzzle Breakers has the same concept as E&P. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. Just in that third screenshot alone there are so many concepts which feel new and confusing. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone.

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