Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Widely regarded as the biggest trendsetter when it comes to entertaining content, the short-form video content platform, TikTok, has become the new home for viral content. A large part of Fidget Trading’s massive success was due to the popularity of the game concept and familiarity among TikTok users.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. We saw that all our various asset concepts such as levels, prefabs, templates, or presets could be unified as they are all hierarchies of property containers.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. Every few years I think about the concept again, and it finds its way into my ongoing notes in yet another location in some slightly-altered form or alongside some other content idea, begging to be implemented.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. There’s already a ton of core content--many hundreds of hours worth. Lots and lots of fun.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On Sunday, Microsoft wrapped up its annual Minecraft Live jamboree, which featured various announcements and signposts for the future. billion pieces of content had been downloaded, generating in excess of $500 million for creators, of which there were almost 300. Last year, Microsoft said that more than 1.7

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. And how do you achieve this much-needed concept when you use mobile game analytics in game design? However, achieving such game mechanics is easier said than done.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. And how do you achieve this much-needed concept when you use mobile game analytics in game design? However, achieving such game mechanics is easier said than done.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Nearly all of the world’s major game publishers have grown primarily obsessed with an esoteric concept called the Metaverse. The Metaverse is not just a new trend in the gaming industry but a whole new way of experiencing and engaging with digital content. You’ve likely encountered it at some point because it’s inescapable.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You must think creatively to develop mechanics that surprise and excite the gamer. Thus, you should spend money on graphics and artwork that are in keeping with the concept and aesthetic of your game. Start Small It would help if you started with the small, simple game projects to grasp core concepts.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. That’s the core concept from Voodoo.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Additional features have been added to deploy more production-oriented services, such as Unity’s cache server. This would be a good opportunity to deploy the sample if you’d like to read along and see the concepts in action.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Roblox provides various approaches to monetize your gaming content, including abilities or items that users can purchase, private servers for players to play only with friends, and charging an access fee. Also, all developers must be transparent with their chance-based monetization and utilize these mechanics responsibly.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Concept Art. After Concept Artist Harold reimagined each level area in the demo, we then had him concept out the individual props that will be needed to carefully detail each environment. We really liked the concept of the existing logo, but we wanted to see what it would look like with a more realistic clock tower.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. Pre-production In pre-production, the creative brainstorming comes to life.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

However, the gameplay in Dislyte is nothing new, adopting Lilith’s best practices for CCG-RPG games with validated gameplay, solid meta-features, and gacha-based monetization. The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Well, we've been carefully and strategically saving some of our best content in anticipation of finally launching the official Kristala Patreon campaign. Concept Art. Why, you might ask? BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. This feature is especially helpful for online games, which rely on real-time simulations to work successfully.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

Ones that offer more player-friendly features such as lower gas fees and faster verifications, and ultimately more stable in terms of value. As well as by adding deflationary mechanics (sinks) that would limit the potential speculation. UGC (Content Creators and Spenders). There are other L1 chains better optimized for games.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog explores the concept of game automation, its potential benefits, challenges, and its role in shaping the next generation of testing in the gaming industry. Game automation testing allows for scalable testing by easily adding or modifying test scripts to adapt to changes in the game’s functionality or content.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. It’s also defined a bit differently. You wonder, can I trust them or not?

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Yobob Games

OCTOBER 10, 2020

It’s a fun little concept to add mostly because bless can be treated like a currency or like a prayer points which has huge implications towards the story. The game becomes really fun because of this new concept. I give updates, news, and planned features on what to expect on Harvest Island! Harvest Island Progress.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

Since the pandemic began, we've exhibited Kristala at a few awesome virtual conventions like IWOCon and Game Carnival; and while these cons are fun and feature a ton of interesting panels and industry speakers, they don't quite replace the value of in-person conventions. link] Concept Art. Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Strong theme : Intermaps are tightly designed around their own unique mechanics and theme. See portals on the DCSS wiki , and info about Treasure Troves ; you can also browse many portal vault sample layouts and content in the source here. A full-sized four-quadrant DSF with its major features annotated.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. This should lead to more of a focus on product USPs, theme and mechanic differentiation rather than the wild fever dreams that have been propagated during 2019/2020. 2021 is the year when this will really change.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

A good example of this is Huuuge, which focused on social features and was able to carve its spot in the highly competitive market to a point where they are now a big publisher diversifying into other genres. This is especially notable in slots design, where meta-features and slot machines are typically developed by separate teams.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. gatcha mechanic, piggy bank, etc.). Ten years ago, people would not pay for digital content and overall wanted to own things. Finally, subscriptions offset risk in developing and launching new content.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

One is sketching a scene or character concept very rough and with a lot of gesture on a piece of paper (or digitally) but in the following steps, when it comes to outlining the shapes, the sketch becomes sort of stiff and loses its dynamic. I bet those of you who are into drawing experienced this also once or twice while working on a piece.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

Villagers are not a specific innovation of Everdale , since they also feature in Family Island - and of course an integral part of the iconic Settlers franchise, which has clearly been an inspiration title for the team. In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. The three unique selling points of Everdale: 1.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

The Brew Barons also features aerial combat. “As We turned once more to Porco Rosso which features a band of mischievous but loveable pirates, so we added them to the game to help introduce some combat.” It was a very tranquil concept at first, though we found our prototype didn’t offer enough things for the player to do.”

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

That’s just the core mechanic, and about the smallest vision you can have (which is actually what I recommend when starting to build a roguelike ), though even then my vision included an immersive interface and using sensor data to help navigate a living world occupied by both hostile and non-hostile robots. .” Difficulty.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

An example of that would be changing the early monetization to feature more smaller purchases (vs fewer larger ones) to help speed up the learning phase. Research different game themes and art styles The first step is researching different game themes in order to find the highest converting concept for a specific game mechanic.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Concept Art. In our last issue, we introduced you to a bunch of new team members that recently joined our growing family, including our newest Environmental Concept artist, Harold. Right away, Harold dove into creating fresh, detailed concepts for each level area in the Kristala demo. Let's dive in.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. This is none of that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Live Services: At the moment, the game features no liveops, outside of the monthly seasons that introduce new cards and a Battle Pass. The loss of depth in gameplay mechanics is compensated with a higher weight of the poker-like mindgames. Simultaneously, they’ve announced the release of two new sets of rare cards.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. The cycle repeats with various features that allow players to speed up the progress. The game responds quickly to input.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Depending on the project you are working on its subsections may vary, but generally, it should include information about: general idea, story (if there is one), genre, targeted platforms, gameplay, controls, visual style, planned features, deadline, glossary etc. Core game loop. It is usually presented in the form of a graph.

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