PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Try to focus on the five W’s, ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Where’, ‘When’, and ‘Why’ For example: “We [Who] are unconvinced that the recently suggested [When/Where] reduction in content scope [What] would meaningfully reduce the budget, as content is a minor part of our expenses [Why].”

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A sure proof of the concept or idea has to be generated to see how viable and feasible it will be for the gaming studio to develop the game. Prototyping Prototyping is not integral to the mobile game development process but has advantages. The idea of the game serves as the backbone of the whole game development process.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc. Is it well-defined? GDD is updated regularly.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. 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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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

As co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Nigerian-based studio Dimension 11 , he provided leadership. He recently successfully released two balls and is currently solely focusing on Dimension 11 studios. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Their slogan, “creating games, stories and adventures that shift perspectives,” echoes back to the meaning of the studio’s name, where magically transforming things aligns with altering people’s views. Love for Africa Before Alkemaiz Games, Mogatusi spent over a decade running 1000 hugs films, creating film and TV content.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. Since then, the team has grown steadily to 40 people and opened offices in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Unreal Engine (UE) is a quality software for the development of various game types, and it’s used by a significant number of famous game development studios in terms of the creation of incredible PCs and console projects. UE provides advanced tools and packages for visual content creation, animation, coding, and even QA. .

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Being a one-man studio, Sergio managed to produce, release, and publish two successful VR titles. But I didn’t enter the industry professionally until 2007, where I worked at a couple of small studios as a gameplay programmer. And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential. User-generated content: Empower your players to contribute to your game world.

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Febucci

APRIL 6, 2022

To put it in a few simple words: creating a prototype, pitching to publishers, contacting lawyers, forming a new team from scratch (from different parts of the world) and more… does indeed take time! What the #$@? and I also have university in between.). Do you need to interact between two different companies?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Based in Vancouver, Canada, The Brew Barons is their debut title.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

Chai was the first game on the workshop to have a custom environment akin to the Tabletop Simulator DLC’s (downloadable content). Tabletop Simulator can be used to prototype your game with hundreds of people remotely with the freedom to change and customize on a whim. The Unheard-of Benefits of Tabletop Simulator.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it. Making a prototype. Well not really. are on the right path.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To make the game innovative and fresh, you have to make few updations in the game at regular intervals, like adding content, levels, features, or characters. As you ‘Time is Precious’, build your game prototype and show it to the outside world. Apart from being fresh, it will also help in retaining the players to play the game again.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Tencent has various internal game development studios, but two stand out in particular as the most successful to date: TiMi and Quantum/Lightspeed. These two studios are relentless rivals (think Ash and Gary from Pokemon). We promise to deliver only the most insightful, relevant and entertaining content in your mailbox.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I believe branded games will become more popular as a means of retaining brand recall and pertinence between seasons and film releases , and I also think 2021 may be the year that real content integration is achieved between streaming series and co-branded, standalone games. Prediction #2 Resurrection of Product Marketing.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

there are decent updated ports for Gamemaker Studio 2, Godot, JavaScript (linked at the end of this post) Yarn is inspired by Twine. There are three other common choices for game dialogue in Unity: Ink is a popular free open source project by Inkle Studios. None of it is Unity specific.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

What we believe separates our market analysis from other great ones you have read is that the predictions are written by professionals working in gaming studios around the World and strengthened by feedback from our nearly thousand people-strong community of game industry veterans. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. Unity also enables quick prototyping. But is there an ultimate winner?

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript. Steam in 2013. Quite an old screenshot by now.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Another MMORPG-related bias was the expectation of continuous content updates, visually different challenges/upgrades and a metagame focused on progression and cosmetic rarity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Documentation: More content, better theme. Documentation: More content, better theme. The same content is also available as the 3.2 Both the Class Reference and the tutorials gained a lot of new content during the development of Godot 3.2. Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

Built by Tencent’s Timi studio with decades of creating cosmetic economies (QQ Speed, Legend of the Dragon, Honor of Kings). Live ops through content releases and merchandising is also highly active for the title. In March 2019 they launched the season one battle pass, but it fell flat due to weak content.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. There is concern about whether Apple’s devices would support Windows for development, considering most gaming studios use Windows PCs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Some content, I just record and publish. And most recently, Travis founded Carbonated Inc, a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. They get to a prototype level. But, you know, I hardly see game studios that are engineering led.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. The most notable move being the opening of a Berlin studio that is categorically focussed on “casual” games, with key hires coming in from Blizzard, King, Rovio and the likes. Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

For example, building leaderboards, managing user-generated content, messaging for real-time interactions, driving marketing campaign, and creating merchandise catalog. Each step in his career he used gaming as a vehicle to stay on top of technological changes by experimentation and prototyping new technologies as they came out.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! AppLovin, which started out in 2012 as a mobile marketing company has acquired or formed 12 studios within the last 2 years. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

A random AI image generator amalgamates different objects to produce random image content from a textual description. Photo to AI Art This popular style of AI art uses algorithms to automatically recognize the content in an uploaded image. The algorithms then translate the image content and apply it to an AI-generated image.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

The decision to take inspiration from Coin Master as opposed to Gardenscapes likely has to do with 1) the content pipeline required to maintain a puzzle and decorate game. It’s simple, relatively easy to make, and aside from scheduling events, has a light content treadmill.

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