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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 17, 2024

Wayfinder is transforming from a free-to-play online-only multiplayer game into a premium single-player offering after the game lost its publisher last year. In doing so, the studio will also remove all microtransactions and in-game purchases, selling the game for a one-time payment of $24.99 during Early Access.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 15, 2024

In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players can’t lift out of the levels. This leads to some unexpected and quite frankly, explosive situations as the game progresses. Game Swing was founded in 2013 by five Danish game design students.

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Unity Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Learn how Fika Productions overcame development hurdles to transition Ship of Fools from a local couch co-op into an engaging multiplayer roguelite.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. Nicot’s transition to full-time game development wasn’t without challenges.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 15, 2023

When we first heard from Treehouse Games , it was 2020 and the startup of six people was just getting started with a vision of creating cooperative social connection-building games for an audience that sees gaming as a venue to hang out with friends, the way others might go to get a coffee or dinner. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

launch of their debut game, The Anacrusis , after 23 months in Early Access. Co-founder Chet Faliszek , known for Left 4 Dead and Portal 2’s co-op campaign during his tenure at Valve, feels optimistic about the success of the game. The other major impact was that Game Pass absolutely decimated our Steam sales.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 25, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Ghost Ship Games' decision to open a publishing label happened two ways; gradually and then suddenly. Over time, the question was asked whether the firm should start publishing other studios' games. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It’s a hard pill to swallow if you’ve worked on your game for five years, only to launch it to a largely indifferent audience. That’s what happened to solo developer Simon Taylor (working under the name Plastic Cow Games ) and his game Smash Dungeon. Why did you become a solo developer? “I It’s all on you.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Larian Studios has clarified why it left the Xbox versions of Baldur's Gate 3 off the list yesterday when it announced an August 31 release date for the game on PS5, PC, Mac, and GeForce Now. We've had an Xbox version of Baldur's Gate 3 in development for some time now," the company said. Read more

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero. So great that a million indie developers coincidentally had the EXACT same idea a few days later. And the game looks competently made.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

It’s time to talk about Pandemic – one of the greatest games ever made. Pandemic is an evergreen game with a multitude of variants and legacy games. It’s also the first cooperative game for a lot of gamers. Need help on your board game? Can you hear that coughing? You know what I’ve noticed?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. The game matures and consolidates around a competitive core.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today’s post is the last of my “Top 5 Games” series. If you haven’t noticed, the game Pandemic pulled a Jumanji and now we’re living it. But I decided that I would be remiss if I did not include it, as it was the first modern board game and it really reignited my love for board games. Gameplay Overview.

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Game Errors

JUNE 1, 2023

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. Related articles: Diablo 4 Stats Reveal Two Most Popular Classes In Open Beta 5.

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Designer Notes

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Chet Faliszek, who co-founded Stray Bombay and is best known for his work at Valve on games such as Left 4 Dead and Portal 2. Games discussed: Pong , Tecmo Bowl , Civilization series, Archon , M.U.L.E. This episode was recorded August 17, 2021.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy was launched in the global markets in August 2022, luring players to the game with its “Genshin with an MMO experience” headlines. Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. How is the genre shift shown in the game?

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the latest episode of the DoF Podcast, Mishka reconnects with Rina Onur Sirinoglu, CEO of Spyke Games, to talk about her exciting new mobile gaming venture, which recently secured a $55 million seed round. Rina co-founded Peak Games, which has become a game-changer in the Turkish gaming scene.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Almost 2 years ago, the entire games industry was amazed by the announcement of a gigantic $55M seed round raised by Spyke Games. Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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Real Programming

JULY 12, 2023

That’s what happened to Sokol, who is himself a former RP4K student now enrolled in the Waterloo co-op program while juggling teaching duties at RP4K. He likes to break concepts into mini games he has developed, so complex mathematical ideas are fun and easy to understand. Where Can Coding Take You?

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The current year has been spent preparing for the release of our new VR game, and it has also been rich in various events – we appeared both in Cologne, Tokyo and Seattle, as well as at many other virtual reality-related conferences and competitions. We met in Tokyo at the Tokyo Game Show 2022. A memory of 2022. Join our discord!

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Game Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

Short games are ubiquitous in the realms of PC and browser gaming, often getting lost in the blizzard of products available. But it doesn’t have to be so, at least according to Paulo Luis Santos, founder and head of Brazil-based Flux Games , which is touting a new label called Short N Sweet.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Opening night at Gamescom – the annual convention held in Cologne, Germany – is usually the starting point for gaming’s busiest time of the year. As we barrel towards the Northern fall, trailers and release dates herald incoming games, big and small.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

Elden Ring is ruling the gaming industry with a blend of action and RPG gaming aspects as it becomes one of the best ARPG video games available to play on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. The developers receive critical acclaim with the praise for introducing the smooth fantasy setting and the evolution of the Souls Formula.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Demand for Multiplayer Games There is a great demand for multiplayer games and it is the tech experts, creative thinkers, and game designers who have made them what they are today. This kind of a powerful draw lets the users make friends and build relationships by communicating about their shared experiences in the game.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. All these crossovers come in different shapes and sizes too, spanning everything from fashion brands, automotive, anime, TV, movies, and even other video games. Their secret to success?

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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. head shots), play of the game. There’s usually quite a lot of work for gameplay programmers to do when developing a game.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2023

Here are a few game design considerations that make split screen a non-trivial task, even in a scenario where technical limitations don’t exist. Aspect Ratio When we are designing a game, screen visibility and aspect ratio are important. These kind of challenges must be identified, designed for, and fit into the development budget.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 12, 2019

In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. Game developers start the journey with simple, flexible and direct deals that fit their immediate needs.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This week, we dive into the games that are defying headwinds from the recent economic slowdown in every category. We review the game of the week: Talking Tom Time Rush from Outfit7 ✉️ Received this email from a friend? These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And while those two titles dominate the top charts, Playrix road to the top started a long time ago with a non-assuming little game know as Township. The game was launched in 2011 as a freemium social game first as Google+ (!) Strong iPad monetization indicates that this is a game played at home by a more mature audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

I believe that the deprecation of the IDFA will catalyze a period of accelerated consolidation in the mobile gaming space via M&A. Smaller, single-game mobile gaming studios will see their growth trajectory obstructed completely and suddenly. The valuations of these companies will drop rapidly.

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