Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Important Aspects Behind Designing a Multiplayer Game The rising demand draws the majority of game developers' focus toward creating more such games. Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

In the years that followed the team evolved into a game development studio, initially making games for Flash, HTLML5 and mobile, but now expanded to console development as well. A Space for the Unbound is their own developed IP. “We all at Mojiken love cats! It is surely growing.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

With the increasing complexity of video games, the need for efficient and effective testing methods becomes paramount. In recent years, game automation has emerged as a promising solution for testing games. Benefits of Game Automation Testing: I.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Rules vs. Rulebooks.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The mark of a great game developer is to make great complexity and interaction come out of simple elements. Need help on your board game? Just here for Highways & Byways updates?

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Generative AI is one of the technologies with the potential to revolutionize how developers create games. While it is in its early stages, gaming executives believe that generative AI will contribute to over half of the game development process in the next 5 to 10 years. How will it transform the gaming landscape?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Siri, make me an omelet… Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many people see game rule books as a way to transfer information to players. Examples provide excellent context for players to understand how a game is played.

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Moonmana

AUGUST 15, 2022

Creating a video game is not a simple task, it is a time and effort-consuming, and challenging process. It takes a team of developers, designers, 2D 3D artists, project managers, and producers to work hard to deliver a high-quality and lucrative game that will reach the top. Diving into the fantasy trap too deep. .

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Front-end Developer - 3. Back-end Developer - 2. An addictive, fast-paced and time management cooking gaming app that keeps entertained for hours. What makes this game interesting is the array of ingredients, kitchen appliances, and dishes. The first phase of the game first appeared in stores in April 2020.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The world of gaming is always on the brink of something new, something vast, something that promises to change how we play and interact in virtual spaces. I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco. One crucial area where games are making waves is in the field of education.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 29, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. If you don’t consistently work to improve, you won’t make the game you want to make. Finding the balance is difficult, and I think many creatives lean too much into the former category.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Pandemic blows the minds of a lot of new gamers because it’s often the game that introduces the concept of cooperative board game play. No player can carry the game – it’s impossible.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. In this article, we’ll explore the evolving relationship between art production and AI, discussing their potential impact on the gaming industry. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to simulate the real world.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

When it comes to games, there are a handful of truths that are very important to realize. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That’s why I developed a theory which I refer to as the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Creating a great scoring system in a board game can be a difficult process. Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Scoring rules are among the most important, particularly in euro games. Need help on your board game? So how do you do it?

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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. However, the mobile game development process needs an immense amount of efficiency and dedication, and is a very challenging sector. This is why many investors venture into this industry.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In fact, fulfillment often determines how big games are and how many components can be included. Many game developers think about fulfillment only after their project is complete – and you can certainly get away with it! Need help on your board game? Anyway, that’s enough out of me! So, good news and bad news.

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

The main aim of the game developers is to make sure the gaming app is engaging and interactive, whereby they can gain a larger user base and get a share in the marketplace. When we talk about building engaging and interactive mobile games, there are a few things that have to be considered while developing games.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? I’m a designer, and I do development and social media outreach.

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Real Programming

AUGUST 2, 2023

To non-programmers, it may seem like there is one single thing called “coding” that people do to power their favourite apps, websites, and video games. In coding, front-end development refers to building the aspects of a website, app, or game that the user sees immediately. Please read on for a closer look!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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Tom Francis

AUGUST 12, 2019

” With the existing UX that can never happen, since there’s no concept of which card is the ‘extra’ one. Mechanics and balance-wise, of course, it’s irrelevant which one is the ‘extra’ – your options are exactly the same.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Supercell is a great game developer who has proven mastery of strategy and multiplayer genres. After which, it appears to be in a slow decline.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Where in an MMORPG world, that concept is very straightforward.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Jesse and I will explain further.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I was lucky enough at the beginning of my career to have worked within existing frameworks in great studios: working on a live game with an existing player base, starting a new game as a sequel of another one or taking over an existing team. Industry peers asked me: “What games will you make?” “Do Do you have a concept in mind?”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

Sometimes you can get too creative for your game ending up attracting effectively players who are not actually interested in your game. 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. But be careful.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Perhaps most of you are aware of hyper-casual, casual, and mid-core games but are still new to hybrid-casual games. So, what are these hybrid-casual games development ? And why have they become popular and attractive among developers? Understanding Hybrid-Casual Games? What do they entail? The Solution?

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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. Some games, like Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile, generate billions of dollars annually. But not all mobile games are profitable, with some developers making little from their mobile games.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. Moving from full-on development to showcasing your game is a huge shift. Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art. Carmen Palade – Animation. Radu Cristea – Programming. Yeah… no luck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. GameJam is the second-fastest-growing Hypercasual publisher and developer in 2020. Firstly by gaining success through internal development instead of publishing.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I recently spoke to Eric and chronicled his mesmerizing journey from architecture’s rigidity to the fluidity of game development. I’m making a game called Lucid ,” began Eric, a clear nod to a rich history of 32-bit gaming, particularly the SNES era. .” “I loved the concepts, the design.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AWS provides tools such as AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to automate horizontal scaling and distribute traffic across multiple resources. To overcome the complexities of managing traffic peaks on its platform, Dream11 developed its own tool called Scaler. How do we scale at Dream11 ? The result?

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2024

How a managed game backend works for you Imagine you are crafting an epic adventure or a multiplayer experience and you want to focus your creative energy on designing the gameplay, characters, and storyline. They streamline the development process and ensure scalability, security, and reliability for your game.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

The weapons-as-tiles concept made positioning and movement interesting enough to me – and I ended up doubling down on that with how weapons worked (see Healthbars). I’m very happy with Morphblade’s simplicity / depth balance. It’s less deep than Imbroglio, but deeper than other games with so few elements.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

As our 3D Generalist, Shelly has her hands in a bunch of different aspects and areas of development, lending both her texturing and modeling skills to help fill in various holes and gaps within our 3D elements. The concept Bianca's working with is pictured first, and then Bianca's (totally badass) model follows. o [link] Concept Art.

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