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. This feature is especially helpful for online games, which rely on real-time simulations to work successfully.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

What they both do is touch on both episodes featuring Sito Jaxa: “The First Duty” and “Lower Decks.” 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.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. We love the concept. It combines strategy with smaller tasks, features and rewards to keep you engaged.

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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. There will be a trend in puzzle games in 2021 to evolve “elder game” features. Puzzle games have been adding features that drive competition.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

Villagers are not a specific innovation of Everdale , since they also feature in Family Island - and of course an integral part of the iconic Settlers franchise, which has clearly been an inspiration title for the team. This game is likely straightforward to balance, but it’s not very creative for the players to play. The Villagers.

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

The Brew Barons also features aerial combat. “As We turned once more to Porco Rosso which features a band of mischievous but loveable pirates, so we added them to the game to help introduce some combat.” It was a very tranquil concept at first, though we found our prototype didn’t offer enough things for the player to do.”

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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. An example of that would be changing the early monetization to feature more smaller purchases (vs fewer larger ones) to help speed up the learning phase. But be careful.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. This is none of that.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

All Is Possible” features two plots. The episode falls about halfway in the show’s first season and features Spock marooned on a hostile planet with Dr. McCoy, Mr. Scott, miscellaneous lieutenants, and a profoundly damaged shuttle. Tilly’s approach reminds me of a concept in criminal jurisprudence known as restorative justice.

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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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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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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

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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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. In my opinion, this is a good decision as these features were distracting from the main game rather than true engagement drivers.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. The cycle repeats with various features that allow players to speed up the progress. Exceptions to this do happen but they are rare.

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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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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) If tight enough, a roguelike’s typical food clock or other similar feature pushing the player forward might also serve as a suitable countermechanic, or impose prohibitive costs on abuse/overuse of stashes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The game also features some nice little tweaks to the gameplay that differentiate it from its rivals. 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. To be frank, no.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

again I've just heard that it's possible for Aleksis to escape if this is a real feature, I guess it would feel really bad if his escape kept ruining the end of a golden loop run the weapon jamming stuff is to make Far Cry 2 nerds happy but it never really comes up COMBAT DESIGN Fast paced modern shooter feel. Loadout is 3 guns.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Some content, I just record and publish. So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. Now it's moved to concepting. If you're a content business, a creative business, then you don't really need tech.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Similar to Today’s: Current level setup (clear objectives in X moves or less) Mode: Balance Description: Collect 2 colors of gems roughly at the same pace. Developers must find the harmonious balance between ‘too easy’ and ‘pure frustration’. While the levels are great already, more variety will add to the longevity of the content.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. This final release now has gay sex, smoochin', and other important new features. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. If you care about spoilers, play it first. It'll take about 30 minutes.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. My modern PDF edition features modern typography, her last letters, and some historical context and footnotes. L of semen for each one.

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