Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. Try different combos, too.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

This is the fifth part of a series about working on Magic: the Gathering during my five years at Wizards of the Coast: Part One (Joining WotC, playing in the FFL, developing Champions of Kamigawa). Part Two (Developing Betrayers of Kamigawa and the Jitte mistake). Race and Class. The Planeswalker team needed more time.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

As the developer behind popular video game franchise “Super Mega Baseball,” the studio has taken each installment to new heights, growing its own capabilities and talent base in tandem. Centralized development on AWS has also made it easier for the team to deploy the game across platforms and facilitate cross-platform play.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Game developers look for ways to improve online multiplayer experience while balancing availability and cost effectiveness. We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. Build containerized game servers with AWS Developer tools.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. The sun shines brightly on the canopy of the forest, and the trees use this wonderful energy to grow and develop their beautiful foliage. Need help on your board game? Sound simple?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

However, it isn’t all positive: While Call of Duty Mobile has performed exceptionally well from a download and retention standpoint, the game has shown relatively low revenue per install (RPI) compared to its biggest competitor (and fellow Tencent-developed title) PUBG Mobile. Or will it turnaround?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. Access all of our previous predictions. Signup for the newsletter. Apply for our Slack group.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

But everything else just feels like it needed another 6-12 months of development on it. In general, I wish they had entirely cut maybe half the minigames – which I think YLAD would still have the most minigames of any videogame series even if they did that – and apply that development work to other core aspects.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Truthfully, no one has ever done this well, and during development I often reminded myself of the old joke about how you don’t need to be fast to avoid getting eaten by a bear – you just need to be faster than the person next to you. The hardest part of a 4X to design is the ending.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! with a new project to test out exciting new features and provide valuable feedback to the development team before 4.0 It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 is set in stone.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

History Most people in the western hemisphere may not be familiar with Call of Duty: Online (CoDO), a project kicked off in 2010 and announced in 2012 as a partnership between Activision and Tencent, with Activision in charge of development and Tencent as the Chinese publisher of record.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

So I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that "learned" how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really. I realized I wasn't interested in a massive abstract population so much as people.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In each of the design diaries that I have written so far, I have focused on a specific game mechanic or isolated portion of the game.

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