Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. The Role of Game Artists Concept artist The game concept artist creates the initial visual concepts of the game (characters, environments, props, vehicles and other visual elements) in accordance with GDD.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

Kickstarter is viewed as a proof of concept and demand, offering valuable insights”, says Liebe. While game designers often prioritize mechanics, Kickstarter success relies on early visual appeal. Share updates, screenshots, and behind-the-scenes content on social media to engage with potential fans.

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Played with Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Our mission revolves around one key concept: ADVANCEMENT. We’re not content with the status quo; we strive to push the limits of VR gaming. Picture this – VR games with not only gripping, unconventional mechanics but also a touch of scientific marvels. While simplicity has its allure, we’ve chosen a different path.

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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 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 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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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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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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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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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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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As the name suggests, generative artificial intelligence is a type of AI technology that can generate different types of content. This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery. Generative AI models can produce high-quality content depending on the data they were trained on.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New mobs were also unveiled, including a wind -powered baddy called “Breeze” Additionally, players who love to craft, most especially when using the mechanical Redstone features, will enjoy the new Crafter feature, which simplifies and automates crafting. Last year, Microsoft said that more than 1.7

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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 13, 2023

When venturing into the concept of how to make an iOS game , it’s essential to grasp the industry’s dynamics and market conditions. Tip #3: Start with a Clear concept and Idea The foundation of the best graphic games lies in a well-defined concept and idea. Tip #2: How to make an iOS Game?

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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The game development process typically includes designing the game’s concept, characters, and mechanics, followed by programming to implement functionality and create interactivity. Quality assurance and testing ensure the game functions as intended, and ongoing updates may address bugs or introduce new content.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The following year, the Norsfell team submitted their concept to the Montreal Ubisoft Indie Series annual competition for local independent game studios—and won. Tracing origins Envisioned as a colorful Viking experience that mixed action roleplaying game (RPG) and survival elements, the idea behind “Tribes of Midgard” was sparked in 2016.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

As well as by adding deflationary mechanics (sinks) that would limit the potential speculation. A proposition that - in my opinion - removes a lot of the attraction power of the Web3 concept, may possibly mean targeting a different audience than they do right now. UGC (Content Creators and Spenders).

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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. This would be a good opportunity to deploy the sample if you’d like to read along and see the concepts in action. Practically speaking, a mechanism for managing Unity licenses may be necessary.

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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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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. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging. The 7 Odd Roadblocks!

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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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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. Generating Game Content Every video game features countless unique models, animations, sounds, graphics, and more.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. In the case of games, various exclusive specifications are set up in digital content creation (DCC) tools. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s again taking a super simple addictive core game but actually pairing it with a simplified progression mechanic and some amount of live operations. And the progression mechanic result in in-app purchases. Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

I take this view because those ads, to me, represents not a permanent trajectory of deceitful advertising tactics but a very specific, very revelatory, very fleeting moment in time: the full realization that success on mobile means leaning into the mechanics of the advertising platforms that almost exclusively sustain distribution for mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

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. Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Not much else is said about the death mechanic in the other game worlds of the series. I believe that Skyrim is a mix of hand-crafted and procedurally (or at least tools-generated) content, and it could be a pretty fair comparison. Anyway, bottom-line, we’re talking about 150-200 Skyrims of content for all of Aincrad.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

This week, the fearsome trio Eric K, Eric S, and Laura go through their 2023 Predictions: Eric K makes a call on the mobile & console markets, blockchain, China, and AppLovin; Eric S on content, M&A’s, brand advertising, and a few “too hot for TV” surprises; Laura on Apple & VR, monetization and innovation in mechanics.

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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. Comparing the total accessible area between main maps, select branch maps, and intermaps.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

In particular, we focus on game mechanics that encourage community-oriented behaviors, the pros and cons of automated reporting, and how to minimize griefing. Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities?

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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. It can also be used as a construction material to build in the game. Harvest Island Progress.

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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. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. It’s also defined a bit differently. You wonder, can I trust them or not?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

link] Concept Art. In order to initiate these changes, however, it was vital that we had proper environmental and character concepts to work from so that our 3D modeling team was fully capable of bringing the Kristala that exists in our minds to life in Unreal Engine. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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