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The Heart of Gaming Is the Power Fantasy

The Bottom Feeder

Video games function best as power fantasies. Not all games are power fantasies, and not all gamers want that. What Do We Mean By "Power Fantasy"? Power Fantasy" is usually used as a pejorative term. In other words, all video games take place in Fantasy. (In They are power fantasies. Art is a slippery thing.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I enjoyed what I was doing very much.

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Top GBA Games by Nintendo (2023 Update)

Game Designing

We used the following basic criteria in building out our list of the best GBA games of all time: Did it perform as designed? Building on the legendary (pun intended) Zelda, this GameBoy Advance version successfully captured the essence of the original game but added a multilayer element that was called Four Swords. Was it fun to play?

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Become a Patron on Patreon?

Sirlin

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Tech buildings let you build more powerful units. Patreon has been the biggest surprise-great-thing to me in the last year.

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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using In-Game Collaboration Events to Boost Player Retention

Game Refinery

As well as embarking on an epic Viking voyage and a wide variety of fights, players tend to a kingdom by growing crops and upgrading buildings with construction and management sim mechanics. As an example, Granblue Fantasy is an RPG with heavy social ements, while Puzzle & Dragons is a Match3 puzzle game.

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Iteration over Innovation? Case: Makeover Match

Deconstructor of Fun

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one!

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #30

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog! Programming.

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