Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

It upset the whole drafting balance. In this case, it wasn’t so bad, but in general, you want to have to track as little data as possible. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

They deploy live operations that surface real-time data and make accurate predictions on players’ actions. You can get an accurate prediction on customer churn without having to hire an entire data science team or take precious time away from your game developers. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. The new move disrupted this balance.

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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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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

It's important for the event design not to simply rely on a balance which becomes harder at the end of the event, but instead offer the player a more complex and difficult task based on pre-existing mechanics. We have human characters fighting against time anomalies in a Victorian-era setting. Always ask your players!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. The effect of the release highlights the importance of balancing between releasing things quickly and testing.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Therefore, Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s similar but improved art style with a casual Build & Harvest and in-depth RPG gameplay makes it easier to win over adult players, which is supported by the user data. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. Well, not quite unprecedented.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

For example, keep it simple for an older player of a casual puzzle game versus a hardcore gamer who understands managing resources and more complex systems Game economists must be careful to balance monetization techniques without blocking the fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and analysed by the author(s). Kudos to their unrivalled data support! Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2:

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. Data: Initial Spike and a Steady Return to Normal Back to the game itself.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!)

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I could save the data to revisit it later, after adjustments are made. Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Audience Because Puzzle Breakers is still in soft-launch, we don’t have enough data to make the assumptions about their audience. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. Instead, a balanced team of one her per faction is pretty much all a player needs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

And from all the data we have seen, the Command & Conquer, nor any other IP, hasn’t proven strong enough to have players overlook those key shortcomings. And since there are two to three missile platforms to fight for on a map, it often leads idle areas appearing on the map. The delay increases the more troops on the field.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, as seen in our Daily Revenue data provided by data.ai, starting in October the game has been seeing significant growth in revenue. This is a balance play to ensure players are completing the pass at a speed necessary to maximize player attention while reducing economic inflation from free pass rewards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

All the data is derived from Sensor Tower’s fantastic data plarform. Clash of Clans has shown unprecedented staying power by staying in the top 10 grossing since 2012 (data: Sensor Tower). This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all ranking, downloads and revenue data below has been acquired through the wonderful data services of App Annie. A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. Normal levels (node 1 and 3) are combined with an angel offer (2) and further support in node 4 before the boss fight.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

First week after global launch: - Call of Duty Mobile (October 1-7, 2019): 70M downloads - PUBG MOBILE (March 18-24, 2018): 26M downloads - Fortnite (iOS only, March 15-21, 2018): 7M downloads *Worldwide data excludes China android. TiMi’s port of PUBG was called PUBG: Army Attack. Battle Royale mode involving up to 100 players in COD Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all ranking, downloads and revenue data below has been acquired through the wonderful data services of Sensor Tower. Most definitely, all these supercharged systems of CM need to be weighed against a tightly balanced economy. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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