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Board Game Review: Pandemic

Brand Game Development

From kids in the basement to “adults” in college – we would always play co-operative video games, regardless of where we lived. I LOVE co-operative games. To me, Pandemic was the first time I was getting to have that videogame co-op experience without a screen. Co-Operation. What I love. And dreamy too.

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Can We Even Put Human Stories in Video Games Anyway?

The Bottom Feeder

My family just finished playing the hit co-op game It Takes Two. Art, since the Ancient Greeks/Forever, has always heavily dealt with the workings of the basic building block of human civilization, the family. Yet I was able to find no shortage of click-farmers who were angered by the very premise of the game.

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How Playrix' Township Became a Billion Dollar Game

Deconstructor of Fun

In many ways, Township has been the cornerstone for Playrix’s success as a title that allowed the company to build experience in live ops, analytics, and user acquisition. Planting and harvesting crops are the starting point of all the actions. On top of that, almost every action grants experience points.

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How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

Kristian Segerstrale : Kristian was a co-founder of Glu mobile, CEO of Playfish acquired by EA, was a seed investor in Supercell, was a senior exec at EA, and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp which will soon release their new MOBA shooter called Catalyst Black ( [link] ). and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp. It's all top right.

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The Economics of a 2D Adventure Today

Grumpy Gamer

Someone recently submitted a question asking what it would take to build a classic 2D point-n-click adventure today and would it be a viable business? 1) We're building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. The goal here is a class point-n-click adventure. Assumptions. Retail Distribution.

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Logjam as mourning wood

Radiator Blog

As with my previous gay games, the controls are simple: you move the mouse up to raise the axe, and then move the mouse down (or click) to chop, and that's pretty much it. Here I use a classic gamey-style back-and-forth aiming meter where you have to click at the right time, yet there's a delay between your input and the end of the animation.