Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You'll read a lot about the work that went into making our Play build smooth and seamless in this issue of the blog, but check out this article from our friends at NoobFeed and the following video from Piercing Metal that explain a bit more about the exclusive build of Kristala we exhibited at Play NYC. link] Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Well, we've been carefully and strategically saving some of our best content in anticipation of finally launching the official Kristala Patreon campaign. Concept Art. Why, you might ask? BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This month, in addition to our typical development sprints, we've also been hard at work prepping a super special convention build of Kristala for the upcoming Play NYC convention. Concept Art. We really liked the concept of the existing logo, but we wanted to see what it would look like with a more realistic clock tower.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’. We love the concept. And building it on Unity’s new engine means they will be able to continue releasing updates and fixing bugs – something they were blocked from doing for a while. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We're also giving you a special first look at some new environmental concepts and progress made to our newest WIP level area. With some incredible concepts from our art department as her guide, our 3D Character Designer, Bianca, has been working on modeling a few base armor sets for our three variants of Kota soldiers. Concept Art.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. A brief aside on puzzles All three of these are more correctly called puzzles, of course. This means that really, puzzles and games are terms that are matters of degree, not kind.

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 30, 2022

Firstly , as this is a programming tutorial, it allows us to introduce some extremely useful programming concepts: Arrays and pre-defined data Object definition and tracking Parsing strings for textual input Subroutines and modular coding. We will use this concept to create our room layout, with 100 total cells. Data Structures.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Hay Day Pop however shows that Supercell has learned their lessons and clearly understands how to build on the genre. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.

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DameDev.tv

JULY 12, 2023

Today, we will be building a tokenizer, recursive descent parser, and Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), but first let's take some time to discuss some theory behind these terms to establish a solid foundation. Graph theory consists of one of the most, if not the most, useful concepts in computer science. To VR, or not to VR?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Similarly, look for a wave of new titles from established companies—both in the casino and in other genres—as they strive to build growth. Event- and content-specific currencies is a trend we’re across all the genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

But what’s unique is that an actual villager needs to be assigned to the crafting building or construction site to finish the task. And players can arrange their buildings’ positions to make resource transportation faster. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. After 12 months of silence, the team of founders has been revealed. One could wonder if this makes Ryan a bold choice to lead the studio.

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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. They were also one of the first companies to run puzzle ads at scale, that are now used by pretty much every larger advertiser in the space.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Concept Art. In our last issue, we introduced you to a bunch of new team members that recently joined our growing family, including our newest Environmental Concept artist, Harold. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo. Let's dive in.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. All the content in the game was just data in fields. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

When we talk about building engaging and interactive mobile games, there are a few things that have to be considered while developing games. Easy and simple gameplay Handy and minimum tools User’s reviews and feedbacks When the following points are implemented in the game, you are sure to build the best gaming app.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix games are part of the core subscription offering First, in the shareholder letter, Netflix makes it clear that they “view gaming as another new content category… games will be included in members’ Netflix subscription at no additional cost similar to films and series.” Netflix games will start on mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

The timing of the Floodrush beta is puzzling because playing Squad Busters just before Floodrush remarks the weaknesses in the latter. I find the comparison unavoidable: They share many similarities and core concepts. To do so, they need to collect resources and build an army during the match. Floodrush versus Squad Busters ?

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

Indeed, one of the main starting points for the design was that it wouldn’t be a puzzle, standing in contrast to the highly puzzle-like nature of Advance Wars. Indeed, one of the main starting points for the design was that it wouldn’t be a puzzle, standing in contrast to the highly puzzle-like nature of Advance Wars.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

A key reason is that Clash Mini seems in a much earlier and rough state than other Supercell soft launches : Less playable content, less spending depth, and several unfinished systems (i.e. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. No reason to play leagues…).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We’ll be sharing some clips from David’s recording sesh for Hiratrola—plus many more making-the-trailer goodies—over on the Kristala Patreon hub , so join us over there if you’d like to snag some exclusive Kristala content you definitely won’t find anywhere else. Concept Art. Staff Parry Icon. Riposte Icon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

After that, Space Ape has been clearly boldened to take riskier shots as they’ve seemingly pursued big hits without focusing on building a specific genre nor audience expertise. We always advocate for genre and audience mastery , urging studios to focus on building expertise rather than constantly trying something new.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The answer to this puzzle lies in understanding the following facts: Logic sets information into Physics, but it does not need to retrieve data from it. To make this easier, we came up with the concept of Servers. generating terrain), because each thread can create content, then register it via a single channel.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. This is great! It’s just too overwhelming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Our partner ironSource builds technologies that help game developers take their games to the next level. In casual games overall, puzzle games account for just over 50% of all revenue for 2020.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud?

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