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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. Yet, its developers do have one feature coming that explains why they are Very Smart People who earn their money. Some of it very cheap DLC.

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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. It is still live, but is most likely in auto pilot without any feature updates being done anymore. Their first title Royal Riches targeted the social casino market. Thus, Tile Busters was born.

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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. C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonSaints Row IV Continue by turning off the Threaded Optimization feature. Why does Saint Row 4 keep crashing in co-op?

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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. Building an interface for designers to author specific audio events to their liking and to set up specific audio trigger conditions.

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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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Wizard With A Gun Low FPS: A Step-by-Step Guide To Fix

Game Errors

Additionally, I tested the solutions featured on multiple devices, and I used a system restore point to generate the low fps issue multiple times to find a variety of efficient fixes. Table of Contents: Why is Wizard with a Gun experiencing low FPS? Trust me, I’ve been there. How to fix Wizard with a Gun Low FPS?

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