Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There was another one back at the 15th anniversary in 2012 as well, which is available on the GDCVault. Click to go to the GDCVault… they don’t let you embed these, it looks like. If you’re one of those people too young to know why UO mattered, this article is probably the place to start. A nice moment.

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Febucci

APRIL 6, 2022

However, if you browse through my blog you can easily notice that I posted zero stuff in 2021. The good side to this is that I have learned a lot and I’m looking forward to release some new articles about pitching as well once I’m able to. In conclusion - as a doable 2022 resolution - I aim to finally be back!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. This blog post is sponsored by Xsolla - a transaction and business engine that will accelerate your game commerce globally. Can you get funding for a game that is not based on blockchain in 2022?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

If we look at the overall change in popularity of storytelling and dialogue elements featured in casual games, there has been a 7% growth in the top 20% of the games, which is a considerable number of titles. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. The core gameplay in Gossip Harbor.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

If you have been following the DoF newsletter and blog for the last year, you might have seen some of my articles on blockchain games, including a prediction piece. a16z saying “It’s still early for crypto” in 2022. Just look at the Bitcoin price graph. And things went down hard. What about the App Store and Play Store?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Update 2022-07-29 @ 10:30 UTC: A regression was found in the original build that prevented exporting projects to Windows and Linux with official templates. There is no easy way back once a project has been (partially) converted. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 So here we go with 4.0

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Which gave me VR sickness back then, too…) Oh, and the disappointment of Nintendo’s “Virtual Boy.” Let’s take a look at a few factors.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. Looking at the massive download numbers, this is proving to be a successful strategy.

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AWS Games

JULY 29, 2022

This blog post will guide you through integrating the AWS C++ SDK with Unreal Engine as a plugin. Recommended : Visual Studio 2019 (Visual Studio 2022 should also work). Navigate back to your project’s root directory and right click the.uproject file. Requirements and Recommendations. An AWS account. Git (for vcpkg only).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Puzzle Games in 2020 Puzzle, out of all of the genres and mobile, is the largest one when looking at IAPs only. Meanwhile King’s overall revenue trend nevertheless looks to be visibly declining while the rest of the market growing. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Currently in charge of systems design at Trailmix.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Blog Authors: David Holladay - AWS Game Tech Head of PMM & Ryan Greene - AWS Game Tech Sr. This blog post presents data and findings from an annual survey of professional video game developers conducted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during October and November, 2022, alongside details about new AWS for Games solutions and customer stories.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? A Civ-like, so to speak.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

So in April 2022, I quit my job to work on making animated short films full-time. After spending the first few weeks on a much-too-ambitious project , I decided to scale back and work on something simpler that I could “ship” in a shorter time frame. Still from Anthony's short film, Rogue Squadron.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). AND NOW WE FINALLY CAN!!! Behold, friends! Staff Parry Icon. Riposte Icon.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

In our “Introducing Onboarding Best Practises” blog post series, we have so far taken a look at the best practices of player onboarding in terms of storytelling and retention among the top-grossing iOS games across different genres and markets. In this last part, we will dive into new player monetization.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As developers look to have more control over where their data is stored and to reduce the complexities of ingesting data from a variety of sources, many turn to AWS to help them create their own custom analytics pipelines and data lakes. Disclaimer: The code in this blog is meant for tutorial purposes only and is not production-ready code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. Or continue reading to take a look at what's new. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. There is way too much to include here, so please take a look yourself and have fun!

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 20, 2023

Beta 11 was particularly special due to its sheer scope and secondary aim at rebalancing a number of fundamental mechanics, so unlike the usual shorter coverage of stats that I do over on the forums, let’s take a more comprehensive look at some relevant stats from Beta 11… ( Beta 9 stats were the last I covered here on the blog.)

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published in March 2022. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game. This encourages players to keep coming back and see where they can place against their friends.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Cogmind is now in its 9th year of continuous development, so as usual let’s take a look at the past year of progress in yet another annual review ! Development Time. I’ve been a lot less interested in getting the word out and would rather focus on spending time with current players (the Roguelikes Discord is where we’re at!)

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Roguelike” was definitely a buzzword among game developers last year in China, and the shockwaves made by the boom can still be felt today – for example, still in May 2022, we spotted three new games that claimed to be “roguelike” entering the Chinese iOS top-grossing top 200 list.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS re:Invent was back in full force in 2022 with over 50,000 members of the global cloud community coming together in Las Vegas for the 11th edition of the conference. This blog details the service launches, customer sessions, and partner announcements most relevant to game developers. Watch the video.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. This marks its true public release, with finished graphics, gameplay, tuning, more sex, and finally an ending.

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