iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There was footage of the common rooms and brand-new gameplay that was released earlier this month- which gave an insight into the game mechanics, setting, and characters to an extent. The PlayStation State of Play event introduced the mechanic where the player is able to learn different spells from companions across the story line.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Interesting fact: Did you know that science-fiction games like The Invincible often have intricate storylines and mechanics that can be sensitive to the slightest system changes, leading to launch problems? It just performs better in the race for graphics processing. Data just flows better, and multitasking becomes a breeze.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. General data on The Ants. The Ants’ grossing rank graph has remained steady (data from Jan 21 to Apr 21, 2022.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set. It’s too much of a pain in the butt to try to do this on Tabletop Simulator and you need data based on the real physical experience. That’s a flaw in a racing game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Mediation platforms have access to a large scale of marketability data across many publishers. Nothing new really.

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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. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. They just liked the mechanics and continued playing until the event had ended. Try different combos, too.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Highways & Byways , for example, is a racing game with a board that looks like Ticket to Ride crossed with a highway map. Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Some people dislike “take that” mechanics because they’re too mean-spirited, such as the well-regarded reviewer, Rahdo.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

A central location to come home to After launching You Suck At Parking, Happy Volcano wanted a central home for their analytics data. David Prinsmel, Happy Volcano’s game director, and their data engineer, Rahul Jani, found that Player Warehouse let them be more flexible around storing and processing their data.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Using that list, I move to a broad research phase, in which I check lots of sources for gathering data. Once I consider I have enough data, I move on to analysis. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. Sports genre grew with nearly every sub-genre up, except Realistic Racing (CSR2 declined 11% and no new games scaled up).

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

The data and examples shown here are gathered from the GameRefinery service, which you can access here. The more changes you make to the game, the more monetization mechanics you’ve got to play with. Content updates might involve a new narrative mission tied to the event, or event-specific game modes, minigames and challenges.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

Drader explained, “Batting is the key mechanic in ‘SMB,’ and we are conducting extensive analysis on pitch locations and outcomes, then tweaking the gameplay as needed. We’re also looking at the multiplayer experience for our online competitive mode: pennant race.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Containers and Kubernetes help modernize game server hosting running on virtual or bare metal machines to improve compute allocation density, optimize data-transfer cost and maintain high performance. We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

First week after global launch: - Call of Duty Mobile (October 1-7, 2019): 70M downloads - PUBG MOBILE (March 18-24, 2018): 26M downloads - Fortnite (iOS only, March 15-21, 2018): 7M downloads *Worldwide data excludes China android. Tencent is known to put several of its studios into a race against each other.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Based on historical data, our bet is on Supercell skipping this one as well and focusing on something new.

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Tom Francis

JANUARY 22, 2019

I know there are apps to automate this but my actual focus doesn’t always correlate to which app I’m switched to, I prefer to do it manually so the data is meaningful. I’m also interested in trying something mechanics-heavy but completely non-violent, which means it’ll probably end up being about destroying suns.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres. ❤️ App Annie for unrivalled data support. The biggest string-matching game by far is Best Fiends, which is categorized as a Puzzle RPG due to its progression mechanic.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

data from the best of the best - Sensor Tower. A push that is very likely to continue… data from the one and only - GameRefinery. Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game. This is a major appointment mechanic, driving the player to come back each day.

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