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Overwatch’s “Hero Mode” Needed to be a Spinoff

Deconstructor of Fun

A lot of ink has been spilled on the debacle of Overwatch 2 canceling their co-op PvE “Hero Mode”. Putting emotions aside, I think it’s worth re-examining why co-op PvE seemed like a good idea in the first place, and what went wrong in development. I’ve seen both sides of the coin here and can speak from experience.

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The Fast Life and Fiery Death of Vampire Survivors Games.

The Bottom Feeder

Its creator hired a bunch of staff, and they've been releasing bunches of new content. Vampire Survivors is still fun, and I occasionally give it a play or two when new content comes out. Soon, Vampire Survivors will have couch co-op. Couch co-op and party games are one of them. Some of it very cheap DLC.

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Diablo 4 Release: 5 Most Irritating Issues You May Encounter

Game Errors

Table of Contents: Stuck on the loading screen Long queue times No High Texture Setting is Available Diablo 4 Open Beta keeps crashing after pressing Alt-Tab Second player in couch co-op mode couldn’t join during the game’s prologue 1. What is the problem with Diablo 4?

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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

Deconstructor of Fun

The co-founders of the company come from Peak, Zynga, and Riot, where some held co-founder or key team roles. Adding the fact that some of the co-founders worked at Peak (that developed two successful blast titles in Toy Blast & Toon Blast ), they went ahead with their own take on the Tile Match subgenre. What is next?

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Saints Row 4 is Crashing: 5 Easy Ways to Fix it

Game Errors

Table of contents: Check system requirements Update Graphics Drivers Verify the Integrity of the game files Switch Threaded Optimization off Close unnecessary programs 1. Why does Saint Row 4 keep crashing in co-op? Many players also reported encountering co-op crashes in Saints Row 4.

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“Gameplay Programmer” is a very broad job title. What are some subsets of this? Combat, AI?

Ask a Game Dev

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. There’s usually quite a lot of work for gameplay programmers to do when developing a game.

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Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest

Deconstructor of Fun

In case you missed the previous episode: Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO) To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter.

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