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Hypercasual games stagnate, but Japanese publisher KAYAC maintains faith

PreMortem.Games

” “As evident from everyone’s fixation on social media for years, content that humans instinctively find interesting continues to emerge infinitely. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so.

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Unreal Engine 5 FPS: Create A Zombie Horde Shooter

Awesome Tuts

Since we’re going to use the assets in the Art folder inside our new FPS Zombie Horde project, locate the folder where you stored your FPS Zombie Horde project. Inside the Content browser I’ve created a new folder and named it FPS_ZombieHorde: Inside this folder we’ll store everything we create for our game project.

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List of most popular video game genres in 2023

Logic Simplified

Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. Role-playing Games (RPGs) Role-playing games are one of the most immersive and content-rich games one can play. War Thunder, Dirt Rally, Microsoft Flight Simulator, X Plane 10 Global, etc.,

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

Common answers are: Everyone, e.g.: this is a nice puzzle, tower defense, casual, etc. A mainstream audience, e.g.: an RPG, FPS or strategy game. Paid games (free or with paywalled content) don't make money and banners make so little that it's not even enough for you to survive (even if they get millions of downloads).

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As Gamescom begins, big expectations from major players

Game Daily

” Little Nightmares 3 Bandai Namco dropped an announcement trailer for the third installment in the distinctive platform, puzzle, and stealth series. It also needed content that a non-hardcore fan would expect from that sort of title.

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2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games

Deconstructor of Fun

FPS/3PS grew by 30% and became half a billion-dollar sub-genre in 2021. Call Me a Legend and Girl X Battle amongst the ones to suffer the most) FPS/TPS (Some games scaled up significantly while the largest ones saw massive drops. To put the Strategy genre in proportion, it generates a whole Billion more than all Puzzle games combined.

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(The Unofficial) Deconstructor of Fun 2022 Gaming Awards

Deconstructor of Fun

We did call out AppLovin as the biggest winner of 2021 applauding their content fortress strategy. But it was really the Chinese gamers and game companies that took the most damage with the CCP laying down the hammer on the market and significantly slowing down the release of new games while heavily restricting playing hours.

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