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CGS Grad's Unreal project selected as finalist for 2023 Rookies Awards

CG Spectrum

You may remember Ewald from when he had just started the Real-time 3D Foundations course and created his first impressive cinematic, Haven. Tell us about your latest cinematic, Menace. Menace is a captivating, high-octane, real-time 3D action cinematic about a reckless motorcyclist evading the pursuit of police in a tropical cityscape.

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

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“It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says. Animation was my first choice because I wanted to do cinematic animation. Hard skills that I could make a living with. In her first year, Simpson took a course in analog games and instantly loved it.

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How To Overcame Post-Launch Slump - The Case of Merge Garden

Deconstructor of Fun

Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. Tough question. At first glance, the answer would seem to be no.

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Alan Wake 2: The art of horror

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But we know that if you get the player engaged or focused on something in the world – a puzzle or environmental storytelling -then they’re very susceptible to being suddenly scared. Molly Maloney: One of the great things about video games is the expectation of training mechanics. I feel like I’m vulnerable.

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AppLovin's Modern Community and The Power of Game Narrative

Deconstructor of Fun

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. They had a specific take on the metagame, focusing on underserved male puzzle players, and built their visual style towards that goal instead of increasing production complexity. The game is full of cinematics that enhance both the cheesy dialogues and the key story moments.

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2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games

Deconstructor of Fun

To put the Strategy genre in proportion, it generates a whole Billion more than all Puzzle games combined. Though several puzzle genres do boast significant ad revenue streams, which bridge the gap in net revenue between the genres. The publisher has many Puzzle RPG and ARPG games with above $10M yearly run-rate.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. For a 2D game, animated cinematics can significantly help with storytelling in the main campaign. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics?

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