Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. It comes with challenges like tight deadlines, production obstacles, publisher pressures, and long work hours, which are just a glimpse of every developer’s hurdles. Many newbies ask the question, what are the stages of game development ?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2024

We wanted a past that was a little more colourful than that and balanced the visuals accordingly”, explains Brimmicombe-Wood. Many course changes during development came from within the team. The concept and emphasis has shifted over time as we learned more about what people expected from a game on this subject.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 14, 2023

The game development process is a complex and challenging process involving ongoing iteration and improvement in order to develop an exciting and captivating final product. One vital approach used during game development is playtesting. So, what is playtesting and how is it an essential part of game development?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. As I said last week , “rules regulate the way mechanics are implemented. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Making Balanced & Clear Rules.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But going through 3 years of development by himself has made him realize that solo is not really for him. “I Why did you become a solo developer? “I I became a solo developer 3 years ago after losing my job just before the pandemic hit. “I I became a solo developer 3 years ago after losing my job just before the pandemic hit.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. 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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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog explores the concept of game automation, its potential benefits, challenges, and its role in shaping the next generation of testing in the gaming industry. Game automation tools can also collect data, generate reports, and identify bugs or issues that need to be addressed by game developers.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I extensively use examples to explain the trickiest concepts. rule book, I use visual examples to explain how the energy mechanic works. It’s a tough balance. Siri, make me an omelet… Need help on your board game? In the War Co.

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Moonmana

AUGUST 15, 2022

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. In such conditions, the team that is responsible for the game development must make sure the final release is bug-free as well as visually appealing. .

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New mobs were also unveiled, including a wind -powered baddy called “Breeze” Additionally, players who love to craft, most especially when using the mechanical Redstone features, will enjoy the new Crafter feature, which simplifies and automates crafting. “To me, that’s quite lovely.”

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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. This streamlines the early game development stages.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Front-end Developer - 3. Back-end Developer - 2. As cooking games have a tremendous user retention rate, the client wanted to hire an offshore game development company to develop a 2D kitchen gaming app. The mechanics of the game rely on food and restraint upgrades which allow the user to advance through the game.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. That’s the core concept from Voodoo.

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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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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The conversation shifted from the nuances of game development to the larger, looming concept of the “metaverse.” But, beyond gameplay mechanics, Eco speaks to a much larger industry trend: the emergence of the metaverse. I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco.

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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. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What are game mechanics?

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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. But for you, if it’s too much work to develop further, then remove it. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.

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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. Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Developers strive relentlessly to make games that seem more realistic and engaging.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This idea developed into what ultimately became the backbone for scoring in Tasty Humans. So how do you do it?

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s about finding a balance, and definitely not repeating ourselves. Molly Maloney: One of the great things about video games is the expectation of training mechanics. As I said, this game is based on the stories of two characters so the whole concept of duality and mirrors can also be used in reflections and water.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Along with handling all the business, Ben has playtested and helped develop our designs. That’s how I do things.

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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 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Written by Michail Katkoff , games executive and founder of Deconstructor of Fun, and Niek Tuerlings , Senior Game Designer and author of popular game development blog Ludocious.com. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. The valley has several community buildings that players can cooperatively invest resources in to develop. This game is likely straightforward to balance, but it’s not very creative for the players to play. Player trading is hopefully added further into the roadmap.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

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. The following excerpt is from Games Speak through Mechanics, Not Rules (Dev Diary: 04/28/17). That’s a mechanic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. We decided it was unlikely that they would sell, but the rationale for the acquisition holds true: Tactile is the only top developer by revenue share without a parent company. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming.

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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. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Short-term mechanic testing.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. I must say this has been an exciting time, having the opportunity to revisit everything to iron out as many kinks as possible, in many places adding new build possibilities or even whole new mechanics. Alien Artifacts.

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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

A large majority of the art was created from scratch, but Hartley admits having used a few asset packs to help speed up development. “I 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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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 ?

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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. In this set up, t he UA team is involved in the product development process from the beginning and makes sure that the product team understands the current market conditions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I joined Voodoo in Berlin with the goal to open a new studio that would develop new types of games (i.e. Do you have a concept in mind?” Example : Imagine I have a solid concept for a “Match-3 with a social metagame”. It is made of individual parts and with each new part, the organism develops its shape in a certain way.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

So, what are these hybrid-casual games development ? And why have they become popular and attractive among developers? Therefore, developers often find it hard to monetize such games, making them less profitable in the long run. Hybrid-casual games allow developers to reap the most from both worlds. What do they entail?

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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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. Check it out!

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