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. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to simulate the real world.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD is an open-scene description with APIs for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. 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. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 13, 2019

Everything can be scrapped at a moment’s notice – mechanics, rules, art, and even basic core concepts. You come up with basic ideas, find physical pieces to represent those ideas, and come up with game mechanics. Then you regulate the expression of those mechanics through rules. Need help on your board 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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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. In recent years, game automation has emerged as a promising solution for testing games.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

It is also used for console and PC games, as well as in the metaverse, such as reality shows and simulating megacities. 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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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Let people play out the fantasy Simulation is key for a successful VR game. 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.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Also, you may not be able to simulate player behaviors accurately. Generative AI can help during game testing by simulating player behavior and identifying bugs in real time. For instance, they assist in generating game concepts, gameplay mechanics, and art assets. And that’s where generative AI comes in handy.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Of course, the flip side of this is that having your game examined by serial play-testers, game designers, and the occasional publisher makes for a far better test than 10 or 15 with your family, online through Tabletop Simulator, or even at your local game store. They look for mechanics and general play-ability.

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Game Designing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The first product of this independence was 2019s Death Stranding , which departed heavily from the conventions of the Metal Gear Solid series and explored innovative new gameplay concepts in a new setting. Beyond pushing video games artistically, Kojima has also worked to push video games mechanically.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Once you’ve outgrown GDevelop and want to move on to other software, many of the skills and concepts you’ve learned will carry over into other game development environments. A quick search online can help you find hundreds of GDevelop tutorials on any topic or mechanic you want to learn about. GDevelop Beginner Tutorials.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

5 Simulation Games (revenue -18%, downloads +16%) Roblox , which brought well over a billion Dollars in 2021, declined by 27% in 2022 while not losing downloads. But the genre's future looks positive due to the resurrection of the Marvel Contest of Champions. Until next week. ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. The lack of specialization and trading breaks the illusion of a simulation game. Research in Everdale is not a similar feature like in other simulation games. The issues we previously raised on lack of advanced mechanics (no specialization, no trading.),

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

A fairly new concept, augmented reality makes players feel like the game is part of the real world by incorporating elements in the player’s environment. Virtual reality games involve the use of a headset that provides audio and video input from the simulated world. Augmented and Virtual Reality How has computer science impacted games?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. When designing the game itself, it’s more important to marry yourself to the experience than it is the mechanics of the game. Focusing on the experience over specific mechanics is really, really important. Brandon: How I imagine teams as a solo dev.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Vietnamese developer WolfFun breathed new life into its top-down MOBA Heroes Strike by relaunching it with blockchain-based play-to-earn mechanics. Keep in mind that the concept of “revenue made in the blockchain” is tricky. So I decided to simulate playing on-chain by proxying with an IAP hero from the Legendary tier gacha box.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unity DOTS is a reliable way to achieve the performance you need if you’re developing a game or other real-time simulation that requires the most efficient usage of your CPU. How OOP vs DOD Works in a Game: Beach Ball Simulator The Best Practice Guide includes essential tips and advice to help you overcome these traps.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. Short-term mechanic testing. Brandon: At the short-term mechanic testing stages, you’re really just using rules to help underlying mechanics manifest themselves! Private testing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Zynga started as the champion of simulations games, but has somehow become the puzzle underdog, growing by acquisitions to tackle even larger foes. Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. As is the whole Istanbul gaming ecosystem.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation. Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain.

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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. This concept grew organically from a single idea.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The basic idea of the core engine is “what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.” The game’s mechanics center around that. Color TV!).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cosmetics have included multiple new collection mechanisms that grant rewards when acquiring enough of a specific type. This is a standard mechanic (synergies) existing in all other autochess games, and in fact it was quite strange that it wasn’t featured in Clash Mini until now. Source: data.ai

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. Dylan: For example, the hipster customers in Seize the Bean have a simple, understandable mechanic that is directly tied to the theme and story: they make you raise your hype. Not allow you to, but make you.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 4, 2021

I also gave the concept a little more color in the ARG (search for that keyword in the walkthrough), but still mostly teaser material rather than specific mechanical details or lore implications. That ARG is full of concepts that could easily find their way onto Tau Ceti IV some day…). Noticing a trend yet?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the “single-player market” may sound like an oxymoron, innovative games like Shop Titans and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator tell stories through their in-game markets. Market mechanisms could change, introducing new auction formats, changing fee structures, or adding new asset types and derivatives.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t go heavy on realism, in which case backtracking for this reason can be considered a non-issue and solely a decision to be made within the greater mechanical design, though this does mean progress ends up feeling gamier overall. Design Control. Architecture.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Coin Master truly innovated on a core Casino mechanic by making random chance just one block in the core loop, not the only block. This can be seen in the image below, where Simulation, Merge Puzzle and MOBA titles from Big Fish and Plarium are currently in soft-launch. And it continues to do so with none other than the Kardashians!

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. The game says you must kill her first, like this, always -- and if she always dies so early, that means her concept doesn't get to interact with anyone else. Limited regen (e.g. No health potion inventory , big change from Dishonored / Prey.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. No, and in fact the concept of seeding exists specifically to prevent that from happening. Fantasy Strike ranked mode is a rough simulation of this excitement. We’re not willing to make that tradeoff.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise. Back in 2012, John Mix Meyer wrote "Women aren’t vending machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out" to critique proto-PUA concepts like the friendzone.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

It improves the visuals and the performance of game simulations and provides more realistic, interactive, and immersive gaming experiences. This widely used AI software helps users visualize concepts and create simulated photos using any kind of creative input.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

By leveraging machine learning algorithms, developers can create more accurate simulations of real-world physics, weather patterns, and even crowd behavior. Chaumette and Pham discussed the potential for AI to revolutionize educational games and simulations, creating more realistic and engaging learning experiences for students.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur. However, Zugzwang is about interacting with a maze full of people, so here I simulate the police as distinct in-person agents who walk around. These moods must be compatible. L of semen for each one.

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