Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, Spyke Games tapped into their puzzle experience from Peak and summoned one of the key elements of every successful puzzle game: Obstacles! Do you lack depth in your puzzle levels? The use of the “Frog” obstacle in Tile Busters (left) and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (right). Just slap some obstacles!

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Brandon asked me to write a few guest posts for you all to give the perspective on games from someone who plays, but isn’t what most would consider a “hobby board gamer.” I’ll also be writing future posts like: . I actually forgot about this game until I sat down to write this post. I was sold.

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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

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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Playing levels awards stars , which are used to earn coins in the Puzzle Pass. Looking at the market, there have been plenty of combinations of Puzzle Core + Invest & Express hybrid games attempted. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 13, 2013

No tutorials or hint systems or pansy-assed puzzles or catering to the mass-market or modernizing. Some puzzles will be hard, but all the puzzles will be fair. Eight - There would be dialog puzzles. They weren't really puzzles, but that's what we called them. It would be an adventure game for the hardcore.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Do you have a concept in mind?” Will you make another puzzle game?”. Some of the puzzle games I’ve worked on. Puzzles are one of the biggest market categories and it continues to grow each year. Example : Imagine I have a solid concept for a “Match-3 with a social metagame”. These are valid questions.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

Then again, the success of Eggy Party and Stumble Guys has provided solid proof of concept and shown there is an appetite for this genre amongst mobile players. At the time of writing, there are five special emotes in the game: Punch, Slide, Hug, and Banana. appeared first on GameRefinery.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. If you are writing a game, just write things as fast as you can and as simple as you can. Let them work the way they like, quick and dirty, but just make sure they write clean APIs to communicate with other programmers.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere’ vs ‘Game-Feel’ In game development, there is also another closely related concept of ‘game-feel’. Is there a fog obscuring hidden threats, or is the level in clear view for easy puzzle-solving? This is the power of the game atmosphere. Another big part of the atmosphere in games is the weather and particle effects.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s only after starting and successfully running a marketing agency and having two successful Kickstarter campaigns that I feel like I understand it well enough to write about it. 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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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. Here, your creative team helps you organize the marketing campaigns, write press releases, and also approach influencers. What kind of graphic resolution and quality will you use? And what genre will you pick?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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. 2019 Prediction #2: Existing top apps will incrementally improve live ops and content, and experiment with new meta concepts, additional currencies, and deeper/more complex social structures.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

But before you continue, I’d like to make a disclaimer: As you know, I always try to offer an exhaustive and impartial assessment of the games I write about. The timing of the Floodrush beta is puzzling because playing Squad Busters just before Floodrush remarks the weaknesses in the latter. So here we want to give a quick look at it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the second battle (see second and third screenshot above) they introduce about 5 new concepts to the game, all of which are kind of new for the genre, and the screen gets so chaotic and confusing that it’s hard to follow. Just in that third screenshot alone there are so many concepts which feel new and confusing. This is great!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As of the moment of writing Beatstar, it’s the 33rd most downloaded game in the US on iPhone. Beatstars’ mixes both concepts, and expands the amount of inputs to those native on a touchscreen. The hard lock on waiting feels much more punishing in this game than say in a puzzle game when you run out of lives-.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the second battle (see second and third screenshot above) they introduce about 5 new concepts to the game, all of which are kind of new for the genre, and the screen gets so chaotic and confusing that it’s hard to follow. Just in that third screenshot alone there are so many concepts which feel new and confusing. This is great!

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AWS Games

JULY 21, 2022

Detect Whether Public Write Access to Amazon S3 Buckets is Allowed. As a best practice, we recommend you integrate SSO with a third-party identity provider and follow the concept of least privilege when assigning IAM permissions. Detect Whether Unrestricted Internet Connection Through SSH is Allowed. Conclusion.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

The second Clash game was Clash Mini, which entered soft launch around three months from writing this article. As a consequence, autochess has remained as a niche concept that hinted at a strong potential but that nobody has been able to find a way to turn into a profitable product ready for mass adoption (at least in the West).

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

While some players enjoy puzzling out creative ways to get ahead, at the extreme end it eventually devolves into optimal tedium which is overall harmful to the experience. Some concepts: More enemies could show up? I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. L of semen for each one. So for example, instead of redeeming two men for a +3.0

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