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Solo dev Jonathan C Haman created “the glorious Drift Type C – which no one is buying”

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Haman in his home office, surrounded by unfinished electronics projects, lit by an implausible number of computer monitors and sipping off-brand energy drinks. Once you have the concept for a game – if it’s an interesting concept – there is always an abundance of ideas that materialize out of nowhere.

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AWS for Games announces ‘Girls in Games’ Jam, in collaboration with Game Jolt

AWS Games

While this jam is aimed for those early in their games career to participate, the content is open to all. The goal is to provide a day of inspiration while showcasing a variety of different paths forward into the games industry, allowing participants to turn that passion into a concept through a game pitch.

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Will Dislyte become Lilith’s third billion Dollar hit?

Deconstructor of Fun

The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. Dislyte is in the last group (i.e., original titles).

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Here's How Subscriptions Will Disrupt the Games Industry

Deconstructor of Fun

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Disney and Electronic Arts both spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire companies in the space. Ten years ago, people would not pay for digital content and overall wanted to own things.

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The Hybridcasual Gamble

Deconstructor of Fun

Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. In this thought provoking and wide ranging conversation, Chris avoids the hype and talks specifics about what this games-as-content transition means, and why we should all be installing Unreal Engine for Fortnite.

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Web 3.0: Crypto-currencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn

Gamesbrief

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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What are the NFT gaming benefits for owners and players

Logic Simplified

The tokens are authentic digital certificates that are stored electronically in a decentralized distributed database that is publicly verified called the blockchain. In 2014, the concept of NFT came into being with the first-ever digital gif art piece called Quantum by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash.

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