Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. Riot has succeeded in building a brand that players trust. After four months TFT has $.43 43 Revenue per Download.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

When I found out a new game was coming out, but the only big change was that you could stick items together to build stuff, I just felt very tired. Yes, there is a lot of repeating content, and not all of it is interesting. Of course, the secret sauce in all of this is being able to build stuff. I was kind of hooked. Depressing.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 6, 2024

Players will be interacting with many enemies over the course of their gameplay, so it is important for us to make them engaging and interesting to fight. Many boss battles consist of more than one phase for this reason - the boss has different established behaviors depending on where they are in the fight.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Building the interface for designers to tweak combat-related parameters to create specific fights (e.g.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Likewise, construction elements have become intertwined with the core mechanics of many titles, such as the Japanese-hit Slime Isekai Memories , where narrative progression is tied into its base building despite its focus as a turn-based RPG. Merge Vikings Combining merge2 mechanics with progressive character and building vectors.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

9 Most Popular Video Game Genres Dominating the Gaming Market Adventure Games Adventure games feature minimal fighting and rely rather on narrative. Role-playing Games (RPGs) Role-playing games are one of the most immersive and content-rich games one can play. War Thunder, Dirt Rally, Microsoft Flight Simulator, X Plane 10 Global, etc.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

To do so, they need to collect resources and build an army during the match. Matches happen in a map shaped like a rounded island , where the player is supposed to move to the sides collecting resources to build their teams and fight opponents, and progressively move to the inner circles as the match progresses.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sony holds its exclusive State of Play event every year where they announce new products, intellectual properties and exclusive content for previously released games. It was a 20-minute-long video release that featured a few new trailers and some advertisements for some exclusive Sony content. State of Sony so Far. Like a Dragon Ishin.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. There are many more ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. This was no surprise as there was little content in the game. The monetization didn't look that bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

At the highest level, this is the menu of options for Netflix gaming to mix and match from: 1st party game developer - Netflix could build up or purchase internal teams to create their own games from the ground up. Licensing - Netflix could build a team dedicated to licensing their properties for use by other game developers.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. The exchanges, the free-flowing and expressive combat and how satisfying it feels to land a hit.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room. Automatically maps Common to all these AR devices is the ability to consume two-dimensional content through a large, virtual screen dropped into your living space.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. Fighting Games. All are the same within the Fighting games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New content releases would drive intermittent spikes in revenue, that would push revenue up to between $500k and $750k. Many of these changes are centered around the Battlepass, which is a key content and goal driver for players: Battlepass changes Brawl Stars’ Brawl Pass, has seen many iterations over the last year or so.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

An example of this is Despot’s Game (the game played during the stream), characters are placed into positions on the map and the ‘fight’ button is clicked. The best way to get started with YouTube is to just create a channel and start uploading content. have experienced the same.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

But a Lot of Pretty Things get Repeated While Elden Ring is enormous, a lot of that length comes from repeated content. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it. Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In practices, most good puzzles also have many decisions, because you tend to play the same ruleset repeatedly, but with different statistical variations in the content. Not that different from fighting one monster versus another using the same combat system in an RPG! You get the same verbs, the same affordances.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I think character permadeath (my watered-down version of Aincrad’s lethal stakes) is bad for building the community that you want in an MMO, though it can work great in smaller-scale multiplayer games. Anyway, bottom-line, we’re talking about 150-200 Skyrims of content for all of Aincrad. Worldwide Gated Content.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 19, 2024

If you want a compelling game that builds a passionate fanbase, interesting storytelling is the most cost-effective way to do it. Like, you need their help, but they immediately make it clear they won't fight for free. If I could make one change to the Larian design aesthetic: Yes, gamers love content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals. Clash Royale was reminiscent of some popular Starcraft/Warcraft mods like Nexus Wars or Castle Fight. Supercell attempted to fight this trend by building better tools and a greater focus on user-generated content. There’s nothing bad in incremental innovation. And why not?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Killing content progresses the player onto further content which becomes more and more difficult for the player to kill. Players can level up each relic with excess relic shards, which they primarily acquired through a daily mini-game boss fight. Players are tasked with killing waves of minions and bosses.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 This two part series is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 7, 2023

Make a list of verbs to describe what the player is doing - fighting, catching fish, pushing away his daughter, exploring, climbing, flying, sailing, etc. Build your content in a way that facilitates player activity, not passivity. When you’re sitting down to write and design your story, you must remember this.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

The rule: Whenever an enemy attacks you, no matter what your character build, you have a reasonable chance of being able to evade the attack. Yet, when it matters, when you're in the fights, the meat of the game, you always have a fair chance. It is a very cool fight with very cool design. If you are naked, you can still win.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For developers, Steam Next Fest is an opportunity to get early feedback from players and build an audience for a future launch on Steam. Terra Ventura by @LogicalProgres3 is a classic isometric action RPG with a ton of content! VoxStoryRPG by Current Year Gaming brings 3D digital content to tabletop roleplaying. Terra Ventura.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Still, they all provide a similar service: they produce graphics and animation for games, web applications, and other digital content. 3D games require more time and effort from the artist than 2D ones, but they also have many more options for what kind of content they can create. What do Game Art Studios do? 3D environment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. Dislyte is in the last group (i.e., original titles).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight! We can't wait to go back again next year! In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. You begin the game with a rusty, war-torn house that is slowly turning into a much more pleasant building with every level.

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