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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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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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, creating a realistic gaming world needs planning, storylines, aesthetics, characters, visuals and sound design, as well as meticulous attention to detail and a thorough understanding of specific gameplay mechanics. It is essential to define game mechanics, which refers to the systems that guide gameplay.

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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. Is this mechanic fun? Asking and discussing general ideas about themes or concepts, ‘I’m thinking of making my eye game about Monet now… what do you reckon?’. I think Limbo was a team, but still).

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Is this mechanic fun? Asking and discussing general ideas about themes or concepts, ‘I’m thinking of making my eye game about Monet now… what do you reckon?’. I think Limbo was a team, but still).

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Game Errors

MAY 12, 2023

The game introduces new gameplay mechanics, such as weapon fusion and object manipulation, which will play a significant role in combat and exploration. The inclusion of these new creatures hints at the possibility of encountering new challenges and puzzles within the game’s world.

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Big Games

AUGUST 19, 2021

A good game should have an impressive storyline, extensive gameplay, amazing graphics, incredible sound effects, brilliant user engagement mechanics, and monetization strategies. Adventure: The games of this type have reflex testing and puzzle gameplay. RPG: The Role-Play Games transports the players into a different world.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

Outdated concepts, adherence to rigid genre frameworks and the excessive use of microtransactions are the reasons that AAA games not excite us as much as they used to. Sometimes it is an unusual story, innovative mechanics or surprising mix of genres. Indie VR – let’s go one step further!

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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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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. You’d be forgiven for mistaking Stumble Guys for Fall Guys. Tournament options in Stumble Guys.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But we know that if you get the player engaged or focused on something in the world – a puzzle or environmental storytelling -then they’re very susceptible to being suddenly scared. Molly Maloney: One of the great things about video games is the expectation of training mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Hypercasual Trend #1 The Rise of Feel-Good Mechanics Ultracasual is the youngest subgenre within Hypercasual and it seems to have peaked in 2020. Starting mid-2019, the trend to make feel-good mechanics a thing of its own was introduced by the success of SayGames’ Perfect Slices. Nothing new really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 13, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s base set includes 10 characters and two different community banks decks. There are several fundamental things you do in Puzzle Strike 2, such as blocking, crashing, swapping, drawing cards, and spending actions. Each bank deck changes the feel of the game. In other words, it emphasizes all the fundamentals.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. At the same time, cross-platform open-world RPG Genshin Impact continues to break new ground, crossing its $3 Billion in IAP Spend in Q2 2022. Until next week. ?

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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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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There's a Portal-like moment where you escape the puzzle. Betrayal at Club Low by Cosmo D Cosmo D is best known for his Offpeak series, story-driven adventure puzzle games with large eclectic worlds and surreal architecture. A high concept with a high execution. And yet it doesn't get more mechanically complicated.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. 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. Can Supercell succeed in this space?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Concept Art. While most of our dev team focuses on preparing an exclusive build of Kristala for Play NYC, our talented concept art team has been pumping out fresh designs for current weapons and items that still need revamped before our official vertical slice is complete.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. In my first Designer Diary post for Tasty Humans , I talked about the mechanics of dropping shapes (which represent the titular “Tasty Humans”) in order to fill up the stomach of the each player’s monster.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hub worlds are coming In addition to trying to acquire properties in other genres, apps will likely try to appeal to players from other genres, particularly puzzle and casual , with popular features like explorable hub worlds, homes, and other custom design areas.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. A brief aside on puzzles All three of these are more correctly called puzzles, of course. This means that really, puzzles and games are terms that are matters of degree, not kind.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Playtika’s Pirate Kings trails Coin Master and has similar mechanics but uses a Wheel of Fortune instead of a slot machine. Coin Master loop Coin Master disrupts the traditional Slots core loop of Spin + Collect coins by adding mechanics of raiding player villages and building/upgrading villages. Most revenue growth occurred in 2020.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And games haven't been the most value-driven industry in my opinion (referring to the abuse of addictive mechanics in games for profit, massive company layoffs to meet financial targets and the pressure on teams to deliver, leading to crunch and toxic behaviours, etc.). Do you have a concept in mind?” These are valid questions.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Finn , as a character concept, is new: a turncoat Stormtrooper. But taking on a big concept like that is a bad idea if the genre of film you’re making clashes with the inevitable consequences of it: that he would be f *d up, that Stormtroopers are people, that it’s not cool or fun to kill them. As I say, I like him.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. They were also one of the first companies to run puzzle ads at scale, that are now used by pretty much every larger advertiser in the space.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. Everdale’s strategy is to start very simple as just an appointment game and then unfold game depth with the Valley mechanics and additional layers of crafting. It feels alive.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Overall, it is a more moody atmosphere that lends a sense of dread, and this goes along nicely with the hostile game mechanics players will be up against. Is the game simplistic and easy to understand, or are mechanics obscure and complicated?

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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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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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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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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. These pieces will vary in both shape and strength.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Targeting Attention, Interest, Desire, And Action Product Your Niche Price Process & Logistics Core Concepts of Promotion Outreach Reviews Distribution Kickstarter Advertising. This concept is called product-market fit. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Core Concepts of Promotion.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

The 1P videogames I’ve always dreamed of had these qualities: Mechanically deep and systemically driven – perhaps even if that means it’s got a learning curve. Indeed, one of the main starting points for the design was that it wouldn’t be a puzzle, standing in contrast to the highly puzzle-like nature of Advance Wars.

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