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Jussi Kemppainen is exploring AI-assisted game development with Echoes of Somewhere

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AUGUST 30, 2023

With the discussions over the use of AI in game development raging on, Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen , Lead VFX Artist at Mainframe Industries and founder of Dinosaurs Are Better , spends his spare time to see what all the fuss really is about. AI affects game design The project’s trajectory shifted with the integration of AI tools.

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The Role of Player Behavior Analytics in Gaming

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MARCH 25, 2024

The gaming world has evolved significantly over the years. This has resulted in game developers embracing advanced and innovative technologies to maximize player acquisition and retention and stand out. One of the key solutions that developers have integrated to serve their players better is behavior analytics.

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How Many Blind Play-Tests Does Your Board Game Really Need?

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. I’ve already play-tested this game a ton.

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Is your baby ugly? We took ours out to find out.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

People liked the game but there was also useful feedback (and observation) of where we can improve. Still too much clicking required. The game still requires constant clicking, even more than Diablo, and this is something we’ll have to solve. This dapper fellow thinks there’s too much clicking. Yeah… no luck.

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How To Play-Test the Rules of Your Board Game

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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? Click this picture for some backstory! Sean: Sure!

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How to Find an Artist for Your Board Game

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JUNE 19, 2017

Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Start clicking on bios and seeing who is active, available, and looking for work.

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8 Signs Your Game is Ready for Blind Play-Testing

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

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APRIL 25, 2022

There are also hidden easter eggs with interesting lines and detailed facial expressions if players click on or drag them around. Special effect from clicking on and dragging the Hot Cocoa Cookie. Despite the core gameplay being an integration of two classic types of mobile games, it does not feel out of place for the players.

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Gem Wizards Tactics Post-Mortem

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JUNE 20, 2022

I mean, part of why I can’t believe that is that for almost a full year after the launch, I was furiously updating the game: two new factions, a new game mode (arguably two), a map editor, tons and tons of balance changes, polishing, bugfixes, you name it. Not to mention porting the game to iOS, Android, Switch, and XBox.

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Fantasy Strike's Features

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JULY 25, 2019

Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. No, not to my knowledge.

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Old World Designer Notes #3: One Unit per Tile

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad. Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated). I was very pleased with myself!

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

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JANUARY 21, 2021

By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market.

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How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

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MARCH 4, 2019

With progressively deep content wrapped into a single slot machine, casual art style, a more substantial meta, strong social features, hyperactive live operations and great UX/production value, Israeli developer Moon Active has pretty much flipped the traditional Slots games design model on its head.

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Jussi Kemppainen is exploring AI-assisted game development with Echoes of Somewhere