PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There is not just one right path as the game features multiple endings, with randomized elements and unique events. The twisting and turning story of the game was the result of many sleepless nights. Nicola Piovesan remembers how he created the concept in a semi-hypnagogic state right before falling asleep. “I

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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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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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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

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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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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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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Moonmana

AUGUST 15, 2022

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. . Today due to applying top-notch technologies and modern approaches in game development, games can be a real work of art. Diving into the fantasy trap too deep. .

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Then it cuts to concept artist Emily Johnstone anxiously trying to pitch design ideas to a group brainstorm meeting which she just happens to be the only woman in the room. This is a more business-oriented aspect of game development that we rarely see, and frankly, an aspect we rarely associate with DF either.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

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. Based on this, we worked with our client to understand and streamline the scope and the core scope of that particular game. Freemium Model.

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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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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. Others may focus heavily on finding the cures.

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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. With it comes the challenging balance between financial backing and creative control.

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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.

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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

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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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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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? It’s a tough balancing act!

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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? Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Industry peers asked me: “What games will you make?” “Do Do you have a concept in mind?” Will you make another puzzle game?”. Some of the puzzle games I’ve worked on. Example : Imagine I have a solid concept for a “Match-3 with a social metagame”. A team is a constant balance to maintain.

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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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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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Real Programming

AUGUST 2, 2023

We start off lessons by emphasizing fun first and foremost while providing the basic mathematical concepts and coding knowledge. Framing coding lessons around video games helps motivate students, as does harnessing gamification concepts. Ultimately, students learning how to create a video game will feel like they’re playing one!

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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. Before we get into the details though, I’d like to start with a round of virtual applause for the real rock stars, the guys and gal of Team Rikodu who made it all possible. Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Yeah… no luck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

While Home Design Makeover and Property Brothers are Storm8’s highest earning titles, they have just under 70 games live - so they are not lacking in either ideas or ability to produce. Supercell is a great game developer who has proven mastery of strategy and multiplayer genres. 2021 is the year when this will really change.

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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. Additionally, proactive capacity redistribution introduces further delay in restoring balanced backend systems.

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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 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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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

One of the latest introductions in the gaming world is hybrid-casual games, which combine elements of mid-core and hyper-casual games. 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 ?

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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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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The pawn is a shitshow of clumsy balance changes. OK, so as far as I can tell, the pawn has always been fiddly all the way back to chaturanga, the game chess comes from. It wasn’t until I tried to program this in my own chess game that I realised this is already three special cases, for the least exciting unit in the game.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Although we've tasked our newest concept artist and character modeler, Pete, with trying his hand at the textures for our main Anagativan characters (which you can see later on in this issue), Shelly spent the first half of this sprint finishing up her own textures. o [link] Concept Art. Check it out! Programming. What do you think?

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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. Game backend solutions empower game developers to save time and money while building reliable and engaging games.

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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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