iXie gaming

MARCH 24, 2024

Navigating the Race Against Time Challenge in Game Localization It’s no secret that game localization can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. This process requires copious resources and time. As a developer or game development company , you must budget sample staff for turnaround and lead time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2024

Imagine leading a group of developers, artists, and designers piecing together the next epic game … Now imagine doing it without a physical office. Andy notes the world's adoption of remote work in the aftermath of COVID and the advantages of having outsourced partners that have well-practiced remote collaboration and modern work practices.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Master’s Pupil being my first big game, I needed the time to learn at my own pace, and not be trying to keep up with a team.” I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.” It’s a financial and time cost, a big life decision. Game development takes so long!

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Brand Game Development

JULY 16, 2018

The personal touch can make all the difference in the modern world where raw efficiency is sometimes valued over meaningful connection. Before you spend any amount of time creating a great press release – or for that matter, launching a campaign – I’d like for you to consider four caveats. Time per Game: [Time].

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Master’s Pupil being my first big game, I needed the time to learn at my own pace, and not be trying to keep up with a team.” I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.” It’s a financial and time cost, a big life decision. Game development takes so long!

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Moonmana

JULY 4, 2022

In this regard, we can’t say that Covid actually influenced the industry in terms of work organization, as many companies adopted home offices even before the social restrictions were imposed. Naturally, during lockdowns and curfews, people have spent much more time at home than ever. long-term cooperation over one-time deals.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds. Over time, those items, as well as little submechanics (like generating new plants, getting wood and gold) ate up more and more storage space. Nevertheless, the primary age groups remain the same.

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Slowly companies started to realise they were ignoring a huge potential audience. Today, games are still not as diverse as they should be in the modern world. Most of industry knows this and are ready to change.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It is, however, possible that Playtika has addressed the impact of ATT ( app tracking transparency ) previously, but it is peculiar that it is not mentioned at all now when the casual part of the portfolio has become the majority in this known social casino games expert company. year-over-year, comprising 54.9%

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With first-hand experience on both mobile, PC, and Console, and vast experience at Supercell and its internal culture - as well as the trust of the top brass in the company -, he seems a great choice to lead a studio with the mission of expanding the company beyond mobile. What can we expect from this team?

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Not only does learning to code early help kids adapt to a technological world and prepare for modern jobs, but it can boost self-confidence, logical thinking, and project management. Developing mods allows kids to hone their skills further, make friends, learn how to work in groups, and beef up their future resumes. 3 JavaScript.

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Filmustage

MAY 3, 2021

For a long time, festivals ignored the existence of streaming services and what they released. Therefore neither "Uncut Gems" , neither "Annihilation" or "The Devil All the Time" didn't get any nominathion. Therefore neither "Uncut Gems" , neither "Annihilation" or "The Devil All the Time" didn't get any nominathion.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

After a little Twitter-fu, I got all members of the team in my Discord to have a group chat about team dynamics in the board game industry. Brandon: If you please, go ahead and tell me a little about yourself and your company. We worked on a few designs during this time, but ended up shelving them. Brandon: Excellent!

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

This episode is sponsored by [link] ⁠ 56% off subscription 20% for one-time purchases with my code GAMEDEV20 Introducing a special guest Max Fink, one of the developers behind the steam sensation, Battle Bit Remastered. “That official blow up was the first time we thought, let’s put a price on it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 24, 2023

You might know Playrix as the company that entered market segments dominated by King (Candy Sagas) and Supercell (Hay Day) only to beat both at what they are great at. The company was founded in the city of Vologda, Russia. Petersburg, the company was unable to attract key talent to relocate to Vologda.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Believe us, it’s worth every minute of your time. Until now, Cyberpunk 2077 was labeled the most expensive game of all time; however, it’s expected to lose its title soon. Its developers dropped the news to launch the sequel to MW2 (2022), Modern Warfare III , with updated detailing and editions like the ‘Open Combat Missions.’

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

Many long-time readers of this blog know that I like to talk about long-term strategy. But what happens when you do “make it” and it’s time for your next move? You might know their company through Cover Your Assets , their breakout game. But our best seller of all time? It’s a big seller.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 2, 2018

If you are a board game developer like me, you are simultaneously privileged and burdened to live in this current time. Yet as a board game developer, especially one working alone or in a small team, it can feel like there are too many people launching at the same time. Marketing your game online can feel like screaming into a void.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

In many ways, the modern board gaming boom began with Catan. It’s no secret that modern day board gamers are in love with the “cult of the new.” Yet fantastic board games have existed for centuries, and many of them are still in the Board Game Geek Top 1000 games of all time. on Board Game Geek.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Apply for our Slack group. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market. Real-Time Strategy (RTS) as a genre has always been very difficult to enter due to Clash Royale’s dominance. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ll talk about what they are, how and why they work, and the pros and cons of each: News Sites/News Feeds Review Sites Videos, Prerecorded Live-streams Podcasts Blogs How-To Guides/Books Interviews Newsletters Social Media – Photos Social Media – Tips Social Media – Groups/Communities. News Sites/News Feeds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

If you represent a company and want to let our vast community know that you support our cause, then please consider becoming our sponsor. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability. Documentation. The Godot 2.x

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. Out of all the gaming companies out there, Supercell is one of the few capable of shipping consecutive monster hits. Our short answer is no. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this letter, he acknowledged that one of the key challenges that the company needed to focus on was improving how they served players in their live games. This cadence increase, along with an increase in pass quests refresh times from twice a week to once a day, has increased the rate at which players get and accomplish new goals.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

With a career dating back to 2012, Ken has contributed to renowned gaming companies such as Blizzard, Scopely, and Kongregate. We will need to check revenue distribution at the end of April to see how the revenue from the countries where the game launches a month later develops over time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Focus groups, when done correctly, are a great tool to understand your players. But the problem with focus groups is that they are very expensive, time-consuming, and often out-of-reach for most small-to-midsize developers. The results from focus group tests tend to also be highly reliant on the individuals leading the research.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

The valuations of these companies will drop rapidly. These market evolution catalyze large waves of investment into mobile gaming from sources of capital that don’t typically make equity investments into gaming companies. These models can be grouped into two different strategic imperatives: Exploiting Synergies and Buying Scale.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Turns out we all had some time to play it. This doesn’t happen every time, but even some of their stopped games have influenced design for years afterwards. A bolder move to try to use their oldest IP (Hay Day) and bring it to a modern audience. The Puzzle Pass also has time pressure with its seasonal resets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul! Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

And a more modern example of this approach is Friends & Dragons from another Helsinki-based startup. At the same time, the old guard represented by Idle Heroes, Summoners War, and LEGENDARY saw a clear decline. Hero Wars from a Playrix portfolio company and RAID from Plarium are on the surface radically different squad RPG titles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If Beatstar becomes a major hit, it will not only be great for Space Ape, but it will prove that Supercell can rub its magic to its portfolio companies as well. We don’t count Fastlane, since it was already in soft-launch when the two companies got hitched. Space Ape has been working with Supercell since 2017.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Dylan: I’m a long time artist and creative person – started out drawing and blowing glass. so I’ve time off of work. Whilst spending it with my family, I’m also utilizing it to attempt to launch my own games publishing company, Quality Beast. Who is Dylan and what is Seize the Bean ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I can’t think of a better time to reflect back on this project’s history and its legacy, as arguably one of the most influential Call of Duty products ever made. The Counter-Strike Legacy Counter-Strike was the one shooter that Chinese players had practice with in the mid 2000s, a time when access to worldwide products was more limited.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

At that time, we talked about the wave of Battle Royale, the launch of Brawl Stars, and the limitations of the new trend of cosmetic-only economies. Within this group, Crossfire (originally a 2007 PC game) has been dominant in this category up to fall 2019, when Call of Duty Mobile was launched. Check out our full COD deconstruction.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Layer 1: Players only have a basic understanding of the skill, so the Tripod system only allows users to increase the attack power via balancing by shortening cooldown time and lowering mana cost. The Tripod system allows users to amend the effect of the skills, for example area of effect and stored use time.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

If you're an unemployed adventure game developer hobbyist, please contact our fictional company for a fictional job interview. There are a lot of other overhead in running a company, even a small developer, we'll ignore those. The last time you read state-of-the-art and 2D in the same sentence was back in the early 90's.

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