Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Data Protection An important factor to consider when looking for a game development company is data protection. Research: Research is important to the game design process.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 31, 2023

When creating a game, game app developers analyze player behavior to improve their interactive scenarios, by identifying what works and what doesn't for the players in a game. This is done to refine the game design and create a more enjoyable experience for their audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. Many game designers will instantly say: "How can we show the player the same thing? Plan content looping during the feature design phase.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Demand for Multiplayer Games There is a great demand for multiplayer games and it is the tech experts, creative thinkers, and game designers who have made them what they are today. Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

These adjustments touch upon various facets such as gameplay, user interface, and overall game design. While most of the decisions are made from within the confines of the development studio itself, developers place considerable importance on a specific form of game testing to gather invaluable insights.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

PlayStation game testers provide detailed feedback on the gameplay, controls, game balance, and user interface, helping improve the final product. Therefore, you must familiarize yourself with the game design documents and understand the intended gameplay mechanics.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery. Generative AI models can produce high-quality content depending on the data they were trained on. Imagine being able to create a game by simply inputting a few prompts. That would not only save time but also revolutionize game development.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gameplay testing is a crucial part of game QA. It is used to test the game’s design. Gameplay testing is done before launching the game to identify and mitigate issues in the game’s design, controls, graphics, and mechanics, to mention a few. This is crucial for the overall success of your game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

The Primacy of the T3-MCC Game In 2019, the game Coin Master by Moon Active became one of the top-grossing mobile titles and hasn’t slowed, ascending to the summit of not just the casino charts, but the broad games category. We can call the core mechanic in this game tap-tap-tap or “ T3.” How To Play?

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Big Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Why Will Make Your Android Game Better? Innovative Gameplay Your game will stand out if you design it with exciting and original gameplay. You must think creatively to develop mechanics that surprise and excite the gamer. This will give you insights into game design, mechanics, and user experience.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This article is the second of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The basic idea is that board games are a means of communication that facilitate gameplay. Not pretty. Just functional.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

On reviewing the data I’m happy to see that my game-to-non-game-stuff work ratio has continued in my preferred direction (I shared a graph and more info about this trend back in the 2020 review ), so more working on the game itself and less community-facing marketing-type stuff. So we’re done, right?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 24, 2017

Board Game Geek is the online mecca for board gamers. It’s extraordinarily popular and an immense repository of all the board game data you can imagine. I cannot overstate the importance of Board Game Geek to the board game community. I could go into the nuances of Board Game Geek as a social system.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

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. We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. Completely in control of every movement and strike.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Moreover, AI algorithms analyze vast amounts of data, including player behavior and preferences, to create personalized and adaptive gaming experiences. AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

To create a more engaging experience, developers are finding new ways to incorporate multiplayer elements into their games. This trend presents a unique challenge for developers, as it requires them to balance gameplay mechanics and technical capabilities to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for all players.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

The Early Design. An extremely talented new designer, Ryan Langewisch, won a 48-hour board game design contest. It’s not enough to simply make a good game, though. To sell in this awfully noisy, competitive board gaming environment, you have to have mechanics and art that people really enjoy.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Find a Mechanic who may be hanging around a Repair Station. Cogmind’s Strictly Static Items. Low on treads or armor?

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Building hyper-casual games is a great way to get into game development. With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry. How to get started.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

A computer science curriculum entails learning programming languages, data science, software development, information security, and network architecture. Studying CS gives you the flexibility to work in many technologically focused fields, including gaming. Computer science in gaming will help you develop games.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Themes create this story that make it easier for players to understand and interact with dry mechanics. A lot of times, board game designers and publishers will create abstract games and add themes later. This will be a tricky process since there is so much data which needs to be neatly organized.

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The Knights of Unity

MAY 6, 2020

As the name suggests, hyper-casual games are derived from casual games, but they have simpler mechanics and instant gameplay. Usually, this is just “tap to play” I like to call them “waiting room games”, and that is exactly what they are. . As I mentioned above, these games are nothing new.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

.” In a recent article by The Verge, OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E, announced a new policy that requires artists to grant permission for their work to be used as training data for AI models. Redefining the Role of the Artist The impact of AI-generated content on the role of game designers and developers must be considered.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

I never once took Kickstarter data before making this game and its stagnation on Kickstarter shows. You can always do more outreach, but I wound up working with the super cool people behind Board Game Design Lab and We’re Not Wizards. I never used market data to validate this game. Use that data!

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Game Design Advice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Lana Polansky recently wrote a very interesting piece about how we categorize games which includes an examination of the popular MDA game design framework. For me, the greatest strength of MDA is that it emphasizes the “second order” nature of game design. So what are the problems?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Merge sub-genre has seen massive growth driven initially by Zynga’s (Gram’s) Merge Dragons and Merge Magic and now fast-followed by numerous competitors to a point of near saturation (downloads up, revenues down) data: Sensor Tower. data: Sensor Tower. Above you can see the four top Merge titles. Zynga owned nearly the whole pie.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They limit themselves to mechanical testing and don’t raise a red flag if a feature “doesn’t play right” or breaks the gameplay flow of adjacent features. It can be difficult for producers and game designers to accept the fact that they’ve overlooked something. QA doesn’t try hard enough to replicate real player behavior.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. The main difference between a game and a puzzle is that a puzzle has one real solution, an optimal way through the challenge. But it’d be a lot of manual labor, probably.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the reasons why hyper-casual games are so popular is due to how quick and easy they are to make. Simple controls, artwork, and game design make it easy for any developer to pick up. There are other ways to build a game on a budget. Because choice is how you can differentiate a book from a game. Change: 6/10.

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Big Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Switch to a Speedy Internet Connection A stable and fast internet connection is imperative for online gaming. Lag and connection drops can quickly turn a thrilling gaming session into a frustrating experience. Switch to a high-speed Wi-Fi network, or consider using your mobile data if you have a reliable and fast cellular connection.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market. The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It involves simulating player actions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and keyboard inputs, to evaluate different aspects of game performance, functionality, and compatibility. Game automation tools can also collect data, generate reports, and identify bugs or issues that need to be addressed by game developers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Game designers would just be guessing. So, what can games simulate? Strangely, the best example I can think of is a game trying to recreate a situation MUCH more difficult to simulate than baseball, life as a border agent in a totalitarian country. However, Wright was not making a game in the abstract.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable, and relevant information along with tips, tools, and solutions to help you grow your business. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Nothing new really.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

Instead of focusing directly on game development, I’ve focused on learning as much as I can about board games. That includes popular games, mechanics, and themes; well-known designers; and how to run a successful Kickstarter. Want to learn game development? The Study Technique. Find primary resources.

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