PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Free-to-play and live-service games have become well-established in the gaming industry. They provide players with a convenient way to start playing, and the longevity of such games hinges on the appeal of their existing content as well as the strategy for delivering and monetizing future updates.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Games are more than just a diversion. However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Because, let’s be honest, creating games is hard. This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I Her upcoming game, Spilled! ,

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Join Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* in a conversation about games that play themselves! Find out what that actually means, watch them play Despot’s Game and learn new game dev tips as they answer questions from the community. 0:28 - 1:22) Games that play themselves are literally just that.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well.

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Game Errors

APRIL 24, 2023

But it’s not about the game itself. It’s mostly about the game servers, which often go down without warning. If you get Roblox error code 110 often, chances are it’s the game servers. That means that your device cannot connect to the game servers for one reason or another. The game servers are down for maintenance.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. As an example, collaboration events are used by more than 70% of the top 10% of highest-grossing games in the China iOS market.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sony holds its exclusive State of Play event every year where they announce new products, intellectual properties and exclusive content for previously released games. Along with the PS5 having released almost two years ago, the transition into a new generation of gaming has begun. Like a Dragon Ishin.

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Played with Fire

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

What are VR games? Games designed for VR are different in many ways, but first of all they deliver an incomparably immersive experience in fictional 3D worlds. Today, this is possible thanks to modern virtual reality hardware and games created by VR aficionados! How VR games work? Where to buy VR games?

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Women in Games today launched a 14-point manifesto , in the run up to its online conference next month. Women in Games is dedicated to achieving gender equality and empowering all girls and women in gaming. Isaaman: Last year, we published the Women in Games Guide , which is about building a fair playing field.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Game analytics has a real-life impact on game players. Learn the basics of game analytics through this article by seeing how to make your games more popular by implementing these insights. What is Game Analytics? It is a technology that lets developers discover how many users are playing their games in real-time.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The list of games is reproduced below. Steam organises a recurring event called the Steam Next Fest : Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch livestreams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam. You have until the 7th of October 2021 @ 17:00 UTC to test the games!

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Game Errors

APRIL 12, 2023

Street Fighter V is one of the greatest fighting games, but it seems like it is sometimes not launching, which can be a pretty annoying issue. Run the game in compatibility mode Locate the Street Fight V exe file , then right-click on it, and select Properties. These issues can be extremely frustrating.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These will help you level up your game and stand out in the vibrant world of Rainbow Friends. Get ready to unlock exciting new content and make your virtual journey even more enchanting! Currently, the only functional method to acquire gems within Rainbow Friends involves purchasing them using real money through the in-game store.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 6, 2023

Usually, any combat encounter in a game that has level differentials assumes certain underlying stats for the agents involved. It’s important to recognize that scaling direction has vastly different effects on the game experience. In order to answer you question, I think it helps break down the way things work.

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Sirlin

JULY 21, 2020

The Fantasy Strike fighting game is now free to play. The original vision of the game was always to capture the essence of the genre along with all its strategic depth and difficulty, but to make it radically easier to understand and control than most of the rest of genre. There are, in genres other than fighting games.

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Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

We know that many of you are currently experiencing crashing troubles while trying to play Lords of the Fallen, so we released this tutorial to help you play the game. The game has been compared to other games like Darksiders and Dark Souls, but it’s way more awesome. What can I do if Lords of the Fallen keeps crashing?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. head shots), play of the game. There’s usually quite a lot of work for gameplay programmers to do when developing a game.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. The retention rate for this game is incredibly good. Yes, I am going back to this well one more time.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 1, 2022

If the end of your game is wordless and full of weird imagery, please take it slow! I have finished a lot of games lately, and I’ve experienced a lot of badly done endings. Game writers have picked up some really bad habits. ” My Data Points The games that launched me into writing this were: Control.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. Paid membership also removes in-game ads for a more seamless experience. So, what’s to blame?

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like many companies, Meta isn’t throwing the “metaverse” word around with quite the same enthusiasm as a few years back, but the company’s recent Connect presentation shows that it’s still very much in the game. “You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 28, 2023

But I do it in a highly popular, successful, vibrant, undervalued medium (video games) instead of a respected, posh medium that nobody cares about (books). My almost thirty year fantasy-writing career has been very prolific (18 all-new games!) One Way To Tell If Something Is Fantasy Suppose a character is in a big fight.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. Since 2018, Supercell has failed to ship a game that could survive a soft launch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Game Errors

MARCH 27, 2023

This can be frustrating as there has been a lot of anticipation for this release, as it is the first game in the series to be played in first-person, unlike its third-person predecessors. Table of contents: Update your graphics driver Close Startup and Background apps Tweak Resident Evil 7 graphics settings Verify game files 1.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 7, 2023

Games have undergone a similar sense of discovery and pioneering since the days of Pong, with a similarly evolved mantra. Perhaps the most important thing you can learn about designing games is the natural evolution of “show, don’t tell” - “Do, don’t show.” The best games never forget this. Do, don’t show.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. What is Unity?

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Both of these games are known for their amazing multiplayer experience. Looking at Fortnite, we can see that this game is also compatible with PCs with basic hardware. Apex Legends is a First-Person shooter game, while Fortnite is Third-Person. However, in Apex Legends, a gamer must be an expert and do more to move and fight.

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Game Errors

JULY 11, 2023

A cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter video game called Warhammer 40,000: Darktide was introduced by Fatshark. It brings complex and well-balanced gunplay by allowing you to fight alongside your buddies against hordes of opponents. You’re not alone, it happens to everyone who plays video games occasionally.

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Game Global

MAY 21, 2021

We continue our series of articles about essential roles in the video game localization industry with Gérard Barnaud, a Localization Project Manager at Ubisoft , and speaker at our first Game Global Summit in Warsaw. The development of a game is a long cycle of back and forth and a lot of changes due to the iterative process.

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