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. Race events are most commonly active for a few days at a time, during which several races can be initiated.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This blog post is a step-by-step tutorial that details how to ingest data from games developed in the Unreal game engine using the AWS C++ SDKs with the one-click deployable Game Analytics Pipeline solution as a first step to setting up your own custom game analytics pipeline. Integrating the AWS C++ SDK through completion of this blog post.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the best examples on the market today is Blizzard’s portable take on its dungeon-crawling RPG, Diablo Immortal , which takes players on an epic fantasy adventure set between the events of Diablo II and III. See the end of this chapter for more on story events in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE!) Storyline in Diablo Immortal.

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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. The event gave players three different tiers to choose from.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The latest AWS Games Solution Library updates, including new guidance and partner solutions, include: Guidance for Game Analytics Pipeline on AWS (GAP V2) for implementing a codified, modular, and serverless analytics pipeline that ingests telemetry events from game clients and backend services.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Start a Gaming Blog Embarking on the journey of starting a gaming blog opens a portal to share your passion, insights, and experiences within the vibrant gaming world. Attend Game Jams: Testing Your Creativity and Skills Game jams are events where participants collaborate to create games within a limited timeframe.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This blog post looks to identify some of those challenges as well as providing some approaches and good practice when addressing them. If you have a successful launch, or some event drives a lot of users (existing or new) to your game, you need to be confident that the authentication system can scale to meet the sign-in and sign-up demand.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The event programming is designed to spark discussion and debate on some of the biggest challenges and trends facing game developers and the larger industry. You can also download the AWS Events mobile app for iOS or Android to plan and navigate your re:Invent experience. Learn about event-driven workflows using Amazon EventBridge.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

The conference, one of the largest gaming events in the world, offers a platform for game developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers for games to showcase their latest products, make announcements, and provide hands-on demonstrations to attendees. Learn more and register for the event.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Proper minigames in live events (retention approach) : Usually an integral part of the game to support the main gameplay or the event loop. At its core, Royal Match is quite a simple but polished game with linear match3-level progression, simple room renovation meta, and a rich recurring event framework.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog post, we will walk through how to create an application that leverages Amazon Textract to detect collusion among your player base through the verification of player profile pictures. Uploaded profile pictures are securely stored in an Amazon S3 bucket with the PUT event functionality enabled.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

During those decades, I've written a ton about the indie business, for money and on my blog. But First, a Word From Our Sponsor I write these blog posts to get attention for our next indie game, because this is a very hard thing to do. And That Is Where We Are I normally really enjoy writing blog posts. Our next game!

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

though definitely less so outside that, as evidenced in part by the lower blog activity until very recently :P This trend held in 2023, in fact marking the first time I’ve spent more than twice as much time on building Cogmind rather than doing other supporting work since the pre-alpha days! The dip below 1.0

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

This blog highlights the AWS for Games customer sessions, developer events, and product launches announced around GDC 2023. Developer event In addition to announcing new products and telling customer stories, AWS for Games spent the week interacting with game developers across a variety of events and locations.

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

In this blog post, we would like to highlight some examples of how Pride showed on mobile during this year’s Pride month. Riot is no stranger to the Pride Month celebrations: the company has openly supported Pride for many years, and the event shows in all of their games. Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games (Wildlife Studios). Conclusion.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this lesson we will examine how our dependencies can observe and invoke events. There are many ways to implement the observer pattern, though for this project I have decided to stick with a standard C# event. This is an ideal setup for an event. Overview Sometimes a dependency will need to interact with other dependencies.

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AWS Games

APRIL 25, 2023

This blog post shares how gaming customers can use health metrics to more easily monitor game performance using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. Please note the blog assumes the reader has already read Introducing CloudWatch Internet Monitor. Blog authors: David Fowler & Prashanth Nalubandhu

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Brand Game Development

MAY 25, 2020

We’re going through a world-changing event right now. Normally, a concert or big event would be a great way to fill that need. This is not even to mention the impacts of social distancing on large events.). Physical distancing is such an easy-to-understand concept, but it precludes so many events that we take for granted.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog was co-authored by Qamar Ali Shaikh, AVP – Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Dream11 and Arvind Sharma, Engineering Manager – Developer Platform , Dream11. In this blog post we will explore how Dream11 built a multi-tenant user authentication service on top of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

A long time ago on this blog, I wrote Pandemic: Getting People to Work Together. Of all the eschatological events that could destroy humanity, an actual pandemic ranks pretty high, after a nuclear war and climate change. Licensed under CC BY SA 2.0 ( Source ). Need help on your board game? Pandemic is a complex delight.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Grab your controller because this blog is your cheat code for building the next gaming masterpiece – for free! Use drag-and-drop nodes to connect events, actions, and conditions, creating interactive elements and gameplay mechanics. Accessibility is taking center stage, making the gaming world a welcoming space for everyone.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 10, 2023

This blog aims to highlight some must-have gaming analytics services marketers will find useful for improving their marketing efforts while saving time. . Event tracking is the first feature in Mixpanel that lets you boost user engagement. Also, you can customize things like event names and layouts on Mixpanel. MixPanel .

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Gamesbrief

MARCH 19, 2021

I’m sure anyone reading this blog realises that the Gamestop shenanigans in the US are nothing to do with the underlying opportunity for retail, but still, that’s a pretty small market, although it did grow by 7% in 2020. Events and Venues is down 97% to £249,000. Expected, but oof.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In this lesson, we will learn about Unity events, and how to compose them together so that we can have victory and loss conditions. This special type of data will allow us to connect an “event” to a “handler”, where we can create the connection via the Unity Editor rather than in code. Update the Block Script.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The event was streamed on Chess.com, Twitch, and YouTube, with commentary from esports streamer Ludwig , Chess celebrity Danny Rensch , and Clash creator Clash With Eric. Alongside this, Clash of Clans launched several in-game events and features that were inspired by the classic board game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. After all, Supercell is our beacon of hope.

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Filmustage

APRIL 10, 2023

In our new blog, we've covered some more of the interesting phenomena and inventions that have changed cinema forever. We have a separate blog post detailing the promising discoveries and how neural technology works in the film - How Artificial Intelligence tools change movies production.

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

In addition, the service scales quickly and easily, which gives us the flexibility to respond to critical events when we expect to see high traffic. Amazon DocumentDB continuously monitors database health and automatically fails over to a read replica in the event of a failure, typically in less than 30 seconds.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

million concurrent players during live events. Epic Games (Epic) went all in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018 to deliver the storage, analytics, and scaling capabilities critical to its business, which had exploded with the release of Fortnite—an online game that’s seen over 15.3

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 8, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” I run a marketing agency as well as a separate blog dedicated to talking about the discipline of marketing. That’s what I’ll be talking about in this post.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Create events and sell your game there. One especially effective way to build a community through scheduling events that excite or intrigue people. Whether you make events online or offline, it helps raise brand awareness. Good luck and stay tuned for an entirely new series of blog posts starting next week.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2020

I’ve also relied on fantastic MobileDevMemo and Revenue Cat ’s blog for generating questions. #1 image: Adjust blog. Apple has severely limited the timing of post-back events and the data they contain. Postback events post IDFA. Optimization will be on campaign levels and focus on conversion value events.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

In this blog, we will explain game mechanics, their benefits, and the crucial role of a game designer in utilizing these mechanics to craft captivating games. 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.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog post highlights AWS for Games presence at Unreal Fest 2023 , including how to enter for the chance to win a Nintendo Switch at our booth on the expo hall floor. Read the customer blog. This allows smaller game companies to produce AAA game content, and that’s exciting.” Learn more.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 2, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore how game developers are incorporating unique in-game ad features into the game design or, in some cases, have made ads an integral part of the game to enhance the user experience and drive revenue. Dragonscapes Adventure’s ad task event. Dragon City Mobile’s ad task event.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

What that resulted in for board gaming is a group of people who review board games on their blogs and channels as a hobby. You want to find big and engaged blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels, that’s true. Read their blogs, watch their videos, listen to their shows, and figure out the size of their audience and reach.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2017

Get ready to Meet the Nodes in person: we are organising a Godot event on Saturday 22 April 2017 in Paris, where many Godot developers will be giving talks, lead workshops or just be available to discuss the engine and game development! See our events page for up-to-date information about the event. Schedule and activities.

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