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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

When looking at time spent in games, Creative Sandbox games such as Roblox and Minecraft dominate growth in many markets. In terms of downloads, it was Word, Merge, Roguelikes, Sandbox, and Party Games saw a rise in downloads. The lockdowns over 2020 and 2021 significantly increased time on a device. Until next week. ?

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Things You Need to Know About Metaverse Gaming Platforms

iXie gaming

The Metaverse is not just a new trend in the gaming industry but a whole new way of experiencing and engaging with digital content. These platforms also offer a variety of tools and features to help users create their content, such as games, items, and experiences.

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GTA VI Looks Great, but Online It’s the Real Topic (Opinion)

Deconstructor of Fun

3) USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC) & MODDING SUPPORT: If we look at high MAU online sandbox games like Roblox or Fortnite, we see a trend of enabling more UGC options to maintain engagement high beyond the capacity of the team to deliver content. GTA actually has this, but in an unofficial way through modding.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This is needed for some types of game mechanics such as: Projectiles (bullet hell for example). Sandbox style simulations. Still, sometimes, some games require larger amounts of instances but less complex behaviors instead. Units in some types of strategy games with thousands of entitites roaming across a map.

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What is Web3 Gaming? | Moonmana

Moonmana

The worldwide game development industry has come a long way from games with simple gameplay and mechanics to complex feature-rich titles. Metaverse worlds These are immersive virtual spaces constructed from user-generated content and containing gamification elements to encourage users’ collaboration and socialization.

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