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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same. In this blog, we will discuss the difference between game art vs game design and how each plays a unique role in game development. Who is a Game Designer?

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Kyzrati’s Game Design Philosophy

Grid Sage Games

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.

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Video game mechanics: A Beginner’s Guide

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There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics?

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It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

I might make UX modifications to encourage the player to choose the right move to use in the given situation. For example, if we wanted to make Class A from your example perform better against Class B at the casual level, we don’t necessarily have to modify the power of Class A or Class B.

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How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

Deconstructor of Fun

Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Further, slots game economies are still stuck largely in the digital dark ages of the single currency economy. The resulting numbers don’t lie, as this bold move by CM is proving to be very successful.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

It’s also hard to see the ingredient level on the right Of course, Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s charm with the players is the result of many delicate design decisions after multiple iterations and polishes. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics? Cookie Run: Kingdom is no exception.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level.