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. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. A game designer designs the overall concept of a game. Who is a Game Designer?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

TikTok brought them back into fashion and in splendid style when the concept of fidget trading emerged as a new trend in 2021, with users filming the process of trading their fidget toys with each other. 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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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Asking and discussing general ideas about themes or concepts, ‘I’m thinking of making my eye game about Monet now… what do you reckon?’. Or at least tweaking features over and over again.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Through this unique online network, Alan connected with Advanced Concept Art Course graduate Dogyeong (Do) Lee and Game Design Course graduate Alexios Vasilakis who both joined the Overwrite Interactive team. featured]. [My Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire character design concept art by Doogyeong. Gerel battling enemies.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Asking and discussing general ideas about themes or concepts, ‘I’m thinking of making my eye game about Monet now… what do you reckon?’. Or at least tweaking features over and over again.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

We will explore various aspects of art production, including design concepts, art style, and optimization techniques. Understand the Game Design Concept To produce artwork for a mobile game, the initial step is to comprehensively grasp the game’s design and concept. So, let’s dive in!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is still live, but is most likely in auto pilot without any feature updates being done anymore. This demonstrates that even when your game doesn't succeed, there's still a lot to gain in terms of knowledge and even features. Do you lack depth in your puzzle levels? Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction. It made $5.1

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Game Errors

MAY 12, 2023

The game inherits a lot of features from its predecessor, like the big world of Hyrule. The inclusion of these new creatures hints at the possibility of encountering new challenges and puzzles within the game’s world. Tears of the Kingdom takes the concept further by upgrading Bokoblin camps.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces. The event kicks off on March 26th and runs through April 2nd, so be sure to check out our Events section for more details on the Kristala booth and which game island we'll be featured on.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We're also giving you a special first look at some new environmental concepts and progress made to our newest WIP level area. Over the past few sprints, our 3D Environmental Designer, Cass, has been working on modeling out the three individual sets of tree houses that will be featured in Nisar. We've got you covered. 3D Asset Design.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Breath of the Wild features picturesque natural environments, whimsical characters, vibrant colors, and perky sound effects. The game features edgier imagery, corrupted natural environments, hostile characters, and realistic sound effects. Is there a fog obscuring hidden threats, or is the level in clear view for easy puzzle-solving?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. We love the concept. It combines strategy with smaller tasks, features and rewards to keep you engaged.

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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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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Now that’s where the “triple A” concept comes in, and the concept is simple: time, money, and resources. On Android and other mobile devices, you may play a variety of fantastic games ranging from puzzles to adventure. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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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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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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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. The cartoony art style is applied in the development of puzzles, educational, adventure, and hyper-casual online games. It’s hard to clearly outline the key characteristic features of the cartoony 3D art style. Fantasy Realism. 8 minutes read.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Concept Art. When it comes to creating unique environments, characters, weapons, and other items—especially ones for an alien, fantasy world we dreamed up from scratch—we wouldn't get very far without our concept art team. Take a look at some of the recent armor concepts our talented artist James created this month.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

After over a year of exhibiting at various online game conventions, we can't properly tell you how stoked we are to be presenting an exclusive build of Kristala—featuring our revamped demo level—at this year's Play NYC convention. Concept Art. Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

Featuring several playable characters in an one-on-one gameplay, the game introduced many concepts that would become standards for fighting games, such as the six-button controls and the use of command-based special techniques. In 1987 the game was finally ready, and Capcom released its first competitive fighting game: Street Fighter.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Plus, you'll get a first look at some of the incredible environmental and character concepts we've got in the works too. In Issue #23 of the Kristala dev blog , we showed off the models Cass created for the sewer pipes that will be featured in one of our underground level areas. Let's get immersed in the dark fantasy world of Kristala.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here's how it works: each month, we share all the progress every branch of development has made as they collectively work towards completing Kristala's vertical slice—from stunning concept art and 3D models to custom animations, level design, and everything in between. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In last month's issue, we gave you a little introduction to the work our 3D Environmental Designer, Cass, had done on the first set of Jhacanda tree houses that will be featured in our Nisargan clan levels. Make sure you stop by our Concept Art section in this issue of the blog to get a sneak peek at what the armor sets will look like.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Concept Art. Now that our concept art team has nearly completed the designs for all existing assets and items in the Kristala build that needed to be replaced with fresh assets, they're now able to move on to creating brand new items that don't yet have 3D counterparts. 3D Modeling.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This brand-new feature will allow the players to approach the gaming action in large-scale battles in multiple ways. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? E-sports team, group of gamers, pro gamers team concept. What kind of graphic resolution and quality will you use? And what genre will you pick?

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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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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. So technically, it may be more like a “bad puzzle”, but in any case it shares a lot in common with secrets. It also is kind of hard to do, practically, in tabletop games (although it is possible !).

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And it's all down to Gregg Barnett, frankly - he had the concept, and he handed it onto me to craft into a design. We actually had concept art for a monstrous version of Cogjammer based on the gremlin in the movie-version of the same story - but it was too scary. The big influence I added was - of all things!   Haunting 101.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. In total, Stumble Guys raked in over 219 million downloads. iOS downloads for Stumble Guys. Special emotes.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

link] Not only does this new trailer feature a ton of sweet cinematics created right in Unreal Engine using our own models and animations, but it also showcases two new characters you’ll meet in gameplay during Kristala too. The second character reveal features the first major boss you’ll encounter in Kristala: Hiratrola, the Abandoned Son.

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 30, 2022

Firstly , as this is a programming tutorial, it allows us to introduce some extremely useful programming concepts: Arrays and pre-defined data Object definition and tracking Parsing strings for textual input Subroutines and modular coding. We will use this concept to create our room layout, with 100 total cells. Data Structures.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

An exciting exception could be a slick hybrid featuring an UltraCasual core game, connected to a meaningful metagame with actual power progression. This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre. style Hypercasual gameplay as featured in Crowd City or agar.io

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

SpinX’s Cash Frenzy features popular slots and high-limit machines from Vegas casinos, as well as progressive jackpots and bonus games. This approach fits better with the predominantly female target audience that is very familiar with saga-based puzzle games. The game heavily promotes social features.

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