Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. It’s the phase where anticipation builds up for the game’s grand entrance. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This ensures that many game mechanics, interactions, and features are thoroughly tested. Game test automation allows for scalable testing by quickly modifying existing and adding new test scripts to address changes in the game’s content or functionality. Different game types benefit from varying levels of automated playtesting.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

Procedural generation of game content by computer software is therefore becoming more and more important as a design technique. The Mechanic I. I was looking for suitable solutions for having both views in the mechanic of the game. Having the character and the story set, the mechanic was implemented. The Mechanik II.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. This intro makes it easy for players to get started and feel comfortable with the game mechanics.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want?

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. Categorical Approach.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Observance is a game of stargazing, engine building, and time management. Except that’s not really all, is it?

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The entire mechanic revolves around a single new utility: the Scrap Engine. Although in both cases the results are indeed based on the inputs, the process is not deterministic, so it’s not a pure “crafting” mechanic in that sense. A new utility is born. Constructs can be power sources, propulsion, or weapons.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Building a brand Cilingir used League of Legends and Genshin Impact as examples of brands that have resonated outside games, and stressed that community-building has never been more important as it lowers your UA cost. So how should publishers think about launching new games right now?

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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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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Cogmind generally has fewer such direct escape options, but teleport mechanics are out there, if an advanced tech not usually available until the late game. As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. Controlled Teleporting?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, even back then, Chinese players would spend a substantial amount of money in microtransactions which, thanks to a massive gamer population, were driving multiple franchises above the annual billion dollar revenue mark, making the free-to-play model the only way to build a viable business.

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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. Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? Building up huge group sessions is the key to completing later levels.

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