PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

Using Kickstarter for a game shouldn’t be solely about the campaign but about building a company working on multiple games. Combine public funding, work for hire, and Kickstarter, using the platform to elevate, attract investors, and build a brand. It should complement other funding sources, fostering creativity in fundraising.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

I thought that the core mechanic in this 2D game was extraordinary, so I contacted the developers. The Swap The initial idea that ignited the project was the core mechanic: The Swap. It was also important that the environments would be suitable for various gameplay scenarios and mechanics.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. Mechanically, the mode is relatively similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 11, 2024

Of course we are developing the additional content promised on the Kickstarter campaign!” And all the relationships and life lessons you’ll build and learn by talking to the townspeople of Orilla Town.” “But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be better and sustainable.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Drawing inspiration from their own experiences in bouldering, the team sought to incorporate the exhilarating mechanics of climbing into the game. There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In previous years I’ve opened the review with a collage of dev images of varying themes and content, but approaching the end of this year we have one major theme that stands out, and that I’ll be writing more about below, so let’s hear it for the interface mockups!

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. Finally, we wanted to have a bi-directional interoperation between our tools and third-party digital content creation tools (DCCs). Any recommended small steps to follow for starters?

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Players can build their own “levels, stories, game experiences and even worlds” as they craft, trade, buy and sell resources, equipment, land, and other commodities. The trailer features a pretty world of warriors, who flit between environments, with ample tools for building and crafting.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I like the idea of designing robots, putting together builds for a particular purpose or with particular capabilities in mind. Sadly all my old BT books and records are at a relative’s house right now, otherwise I might go through them and share a thing or two :) A Mechwarrior Online build. A BattleTech loadout sheet.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. Every few years I think about the concept again, and it finds its way into my ongoing notes in yet another location in some slightly-altered form or alongside some other content idea, begging to be implemented.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. But that’s not all!

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. Building a Riveting Mobile Game. The players should intuitively understand the mechanism of the game and get engaged with the gameplay within a few minutes they start playing the game.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. of each level.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The mechanic of the game is so simple. Players must construct/upgrade different types of buildings and train/upgrade various units to dominate the other players. Besides, an interesting part of the developments is that we’ve utilized AI to generate 80% of graphic content, all buildings and environments are generated by AI.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

” “As evident from everyone’s fixation on social media for years, content that humans instinctively find interesting continues to emerge infinitely. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. There’s already a ton of core content--many hundreds of hours worth. Lots and lots of fun.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Cogmind’s “ special modes ,” timed events with unique mechanics, can in one sense be seen as the experimental test beds of Cogmind. But anyway this is one example of a mechanic originally unique to that mode now becoming embodied in a specific item available in regular Cogmind!

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Game Daily

MAY 15, 2023

Launched last month, Meta World: My City from Netmarble N2 is a blockchain real estate digital board game with additional virtual real estate building and trading as well as social metaverse activities. The first innovation we would like to highlight is Union Tokenomics, which enables players to stably enjoy the content.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Editor Improved the display of build task progress. Optimized texture compression task scheduling and build progress display during compression. Exposed the mechanism for building custom panel plugins to the public, examples have been updated in the build plugin template. cache could not be found. Cocos Creator 3.8

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

town-building run-based RTS with a Warcraft 3 inspired aesthetic and a deckbuilding meta-game progression. You spend an hour building a base while fulfilling randomized mini-goals for victory points. The core game design throughline is clear: they loved the Warcraft wood chopping mechanic, and so they made an entire game around it.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

When we look at the landscape of the biggest and most successful game content companies today, we see that brand is the most common defensibility. use embedding strategies with game content companies as customers of their technology. However, we have yet to see any examples of embedding for game content companies.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Environment artist An environment artist creates a fantasy game world by adding buildings, landscapes, colorful backgrounds and props that match the game design. Let’s take the example of Candy Crush again.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While a lot of its success can be attributed to the company’s support with content updates over the years, the key to its mass appeal lies in its ability to let players express themselves by creating their own experiences and games within the platform. Sketch out the basic gameplay mechanics, objectives, and features.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Game developers conceptualize, design, and build games for various platforms, including consoles, PCs, mobile devices, and virtual reality systems. The game development process typically includes designing the game’s concept, characters, and mechanics, followed by programming to implement functionality and create interactivity.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And are there potential challenges that developers should be aware of when using generative AI to build games? As the name suggests, generative artificial intelligence is a type of AI technology that can generate different types of content. This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously community interaction is quite important and still plays an ongoing role in development, as always, but at this point I feel it’s more important to focus on expanding content as much as possible. This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!)

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. They’re a great way of boosting engagement by providing players with new and exciting ways of enjoying an existing game.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As players upload their profile pictures, the application quickly identifies and extracts any textual content (such as phone numbers or other identifying information) embedded within the image and then applies a blur effect to hide the contact information. Please refer to the AWS Pricing page for specific details.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

From time to time, our AWS GameTime guests may also share exclusive news, easter egg content and merchandise! During the gameplay segment, we discover what makes their game fun to play and we get into the details behind design choices and unique game mechanics. Keep gaming and keep building on AWS! awsgametime

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. That isn’t to say this is limited to only story-related choices either - choices now that build up to bigger future choices in the future are also often interesting.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Improving user experience at Epic Games using Amazon Timestream : Epic Games covers its application of Amazon Timestream to build a scalable solution for monitoring and deriving insights from the play time of millions of gamers across its game catalog. To view additional recordings from re:Invent 2023, visit the AWS Events content page.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention. Buildings in the Outpost act as locations for special Brief Encounters.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 17, 2023

Influencer marketing, including having Twitch streamers and content creators play and showcase your game, is equally important as it amplifies your reach and exposes your game to potential customers and investors. Publishers often look for studios and games featured on these platforms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

One could even suppose that it makes content transfer (levels, features) even easier between the two games. Now onto the differences… A new way to define ‘casual player vs player’ (PvP) The biggest glaring difference between the two games is the new attack mechanic that is baked into the natural linear progression and appears every 10 levels.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Finding this space isn’t too difficult since Cogmind mechanics and UI were designed to fit a 4:3 display anyway, despite most everyone these days using 16:9 or higher, meaning there is usually a decent amount of space available at the left and right sides of the map view which is not as vital to be able to see at all times.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New mobs were also unveiled, including a wind -powered baddy called “Breeze” Additionally, players who love to craft, most especially when using the mechanical Redstone features, will enjoy the new Crafter feature, which simplifies and automates crafting. Last year, Microsoft said that more than 1.7

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