Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Games can be developed through the tools in the integrated visual scripter called Blueprint. In other words, you can build a game using only blueprints because they are valid pieces of code. It takes just a few steps to make up nodes and connect them together to develop logic for a game. The game engine is open-source.

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Engine Engineering Game Engine Asset 52

The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. Turns out, if your game design is a little lacking, all you need to do is spackle on a bit of "Make bars fill up to make numbers get bigger to make bars fill up." What about your game made the player feel good?

Games 75

Games Fantasy Fighting Art 75

Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It must have been a difficult game to design for many reasons, one of which is that many of the US’s historical actions, such as the invasion of Iraq, backfired horribly, which players would presumably want to avoid. However, when you read the rules for the game, it comes across like a Bush administration neo-con fantasy world.

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Simulation Games Game Design Game Designer 52

Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

The mechanics for choosing events and how they affect the player are transparent and easy to understand, which was necessary because, as with all board games, the players have to do all the work themselves. Further, the Ambitions that come up would be related to the current game state.

AI 68

AI Point and Click Mechanics Scripting 68

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Both titles featured PUBG’s signature battle royale gameplay and mechanics ported to the mobile format, though the two studios had different approaches.

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Mobile Mobile FPS Console 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good. In none of these games is the actual combat system itself the draw, really, it’s more in how you’re arranging and leveling up your party that’s interesting. That would be bad.

Writing 52

Writing Fantasy Fighting Cutscenes 52

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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Content FPS Mobile Mobile 52

Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Perfect board game pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. Now I want to zoom out a bit and look at the design as a whole.

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Tile Games Playtesting Balance 130

Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

(Of course, many games are actually on a continuum between these two extremes – most free-for-all Eurogames severely limit how players can impact each other so that diplomacy is of little use. AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.)

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AI Racing Tile Engine 52