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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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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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In order to self-publish a board game, you will have a lot of responsibilities. These responsibilities include marketing, sales, fulfillment, accounting, and…oh yeah…designing the game. Famously, I fall into the latter category. Need help on your board game? Find people to run ideas by.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There is technically a third category serving special purposes, one that after many years is once again growing as part of Beta 11. This other category is what I call “maps between maps,” essentially much smaller maps forming optional bridges between the regular maps.

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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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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Connections T he new daily game at the New York Times is called Connections , and I’ve seen a few people comment that they just don’t like it as much as Wordle or Spelling Bee. I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter.

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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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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. Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable and relevant information along with tips, tools and solutions to help you grow your business.

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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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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. That would be bad :P.

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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. Many games won’t be accessible to everyone.

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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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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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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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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

The onboarding period is the delicate phase where the player’s relationship to the monetization mechanics of the game is often decided – for better or worse. Let’s find out what kind of interesting monetization features aimed specifically at new players can be found in top mobile games from East to West!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: 3: They have an awesome Medium blog and podcast called LevelUp. In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category.

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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. Tagging AWS Resources.

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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. Description from Board Game Geek.

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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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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. What is Facebook Good For?

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This week we're dedicating our blog to the hidden figures of the filmmaking industry - the stuntmen. So, for example, the Stunt coordinator will be able to create unique categories such as Action, Running, Chase, and many others with no restrictions. Stunt coordinators use a design called the Turning Fork.

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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!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here. Concept Art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Especially the last twelve months the game has been thriving, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue per day.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Although most of the feature progress I share is in the form of animated gifs, there are a handful of static PNGs as well which I’ve compiled into another collage for a visual overview of 2021: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and Twitter (larger size here ).

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

” (More recently here on the blog I covered that category of Cogmind maps, the “ maps between maps ,” since a third such map type was added this year.). In my previous related articles I wrote about dividing encounters into four categories: Fluff, Reward, Risk-Reward, and Danger. Encounter Types.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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Moonmana

APRIL 24, 2023

Discover the phenomenon of web3 IPs that, unlike traditional gaming platforms, allow players to engage with gaming in ingenious ways. What is Web3 gaming? The world of gaming is wonderful indeed. We’re talking about web 3 gaming. So what is web3 gaming , and what drives the popularity of these blockchain games?

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