iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Many individuals believe that the Metaverse will be the next big thing in game development. Nearly all of the world’s major game publishers have grown primarily obsessed with an esoteric concept called the Metaverse. Some, on the other hand, don’t appear to understand its significance. So, let’s dive in!

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Big Games

AUGUST 30, 2021

Playing games brings a whole lot of fun and entertainment. These games have exciting gameplay, storyline, animation, graphics, sound, etc, and all these start with a brainstorming idea. If you have trouble coming up with exciting game ideas, worry not. Give a try on a few popular current games from different categories.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. So, what’s to blame?

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Game Refinery

JUNE 15, 2023

The rise of hybridization in mobile games has resulted in game developers experimenting with new gameplay mechanics and features from other genres to drive engagement, something that’s often done via limited-time events.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Android: Introduce appCategory attribute of android to set category ( GH-63483 ).

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Creating a great scoring system in a board game can be a difficult process. Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Scoring rules are among the most important, particularly in euro games. Need help on your board game? So how do you do it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

In this alpha 5 blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous alpha release. Editor: Make property paths and categories translatable ( GH-58706 ). As we are still in the alpha phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

Whenever I saw a complaint from a game dev pop up on my Twitter feed, I recorded it in Excel. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. One day, I decided to group the complaints into different categories. Game development is very demanding.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks for joining us for another exciting and epic issue of the Kristala Dev Blog. The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. We're so glad you're here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Android: Introduce appCategory attribute of android to set category ( GH-63483 ).

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Filmustage

MAY 4, 2022

In anticipation of one of the major holidays of the year, Filmustage has a new blog for you, which is, of course, dedicated to Star Wars ! Disclaimer: our blog has no academic purpose behind it, because we are viewers just like you. Be one of the first to test the new functionality - click here for more detailed information.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2018

support needed for mobile games. x branch will cease to be so important for mobile developers. games in production, and especially: Distribution platforms like Google Play or Apple Store regularly increase their requirements in terms of targeted SDKs, so we need to update our export templates accordingly. The upcoming Godot 3.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. Hoping that your game is going to become a cultural phenomenon is a super long shot and often requires access to a top IP that can be very expensive.

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Filmustage

JUNE 7, 2022

Disclaimer: our blog has no academic purpose behind it, because we are viewers just like you. Also after a long time of hard work we are happy to announce the beta-testing of the new Custom categories feature in the Filmustage software. Without further ado, here we go! We can be wrong about certain statements - and that is fine.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

The lessons are not typical: “hire slowly”, “play the infinite game”, “replace control with trust”, etc. Many games industry people’s response to Supercell’s approach and accompanying lessons is to consider Supercell as an anomaly. They often take existing categories and reinvent them with a specific eye towards simplification.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 5, 2020

Welcome back to the riveting, the joy-inducing, the awe-inspiring Kristala dev blog! But before we dive into the real meat and potatoes of the development for this sprint, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge some of the heavy events that are currently affecting our world. We hear you. We stand by you. in their inventory.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 26, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week I talked about reaching out to board game reviewers. Reviews are great because they provide your board game with coverage in board game-related media. Need help on your board game?

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AWS Games

JANUARY 25, 2024

Introduction To continue our discussion about Amazon DocumentDB best practices in part two , we are going to focus on data protection, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization in this blog. Use the following links to the developer guide for information on how to activate them. How to start the profiler? How to activate auditing?

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

Over 28,000 developers, artists, visionaries, and storytellers came from around the world to meet, learn, share experiences, and celebrate the global video game industry at the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco March 20 – 24. Learn more about Game Server solutions on AWS.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Giving a number to any game’s development expense is practically impossible. Because each step has its nuances, if one game became successful in a month, other developers could empty their whole bank account, and still, there’s no guarantee the target market will appreciate it. Let’s Begin With A Quick Round of Questions!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

However, when we look at gaming companies, we don’t see the same level of defensibility that we see for companies in other industries. There is no FAANG-like (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) company in gaming with the associated massive defensive moat and confidence in long-term durability and resilience. fall from grace.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. I am Sophie, a creative Game Lead working at Voodoo. This blog post is brought to you by ironSource - a growth platform that turns amazing studios into amazing businesses. What games to make? Who should I hire?

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This aspect of the game, like nearly every aspect has rule after rule and exceptions to those rules. There are quite a few rules, and since I am still relatively new to this game, I may end up missing something. We added a new game data that is managed by a subclass of an EntityTableSystem.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. As much as Godot is developed very efficiently online, the main developers meeting personally is a great way to move forward with a lot of issues that are difficult to discuss online. This year, we also added the tools category! The work of Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. As much as Godot is developed very efficiently online, the main developers meeting personally is a great way to move forward with a lot of issues that are difficult to discuss online. This year, we also added the tools category! The work of Godot 4.0

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

Introduction Document database is one of the fastest growing categories of nonrelational database that makes it easier for game developers to store and query data as JSON-like documents. Both games experience heavy traffic which can be as high as tens of millions of requests/day. We launched Amazon DocumentDB in 2019.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

He’s the professorial mind behind Meeple Like Us , a board game review site with an academic focus on accessibility. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re a board game review blog. Michael: Why, hello there.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In part one of our series , we discussed the importance of management and governance of your AWS resources for Game Development Studios. For Game Studios to operate efficiently in the cloud, they need to be able to know the who, what, where and how much for all the AWS services their development teams are using.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Are you excited?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In this past year, I’ve been using Facebook’s advertising system to increase the visibility of blog posts and to drive people to the Highways & Byways Kickstarter mailer.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

From national calendar days to religious holidays, seasonal events are a great way for mobile games to find new and exciting ways to drive player engagement. Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published in February 2021. Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published in February 2021.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today’s game developers use analytics as a critical workload to deliver the best gameplay experiences possible for their players. This is useful if you are a game developer new to AWS real-time streaming analytics but familiar with C++ libraries, or if you prefer to not manage API Gateway as part of your deployment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. As you’ve noticed from the previous prediction post, we actively refer to the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

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. Difficulty.

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