Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

These kinds of games are really “stuff reliant” – new characters, abilities, mechanics, loot, story events, monsters, etc need to be fed into the system at a good pace to continue being fun. I really wish big AAA game developers would stop stretching everything as thin as possible. But still, it’s super fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Puzzle Games The King is Back.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps). Tournament options in Stumble Guys.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Thorough testing is a crucial part of the game development process to achieve this level of excellence. This enables them to highlight issues and document them for developers to resolve. As a result, they enable development teams to tailor games to Nintendo’s unique audience and style. But what does Nintendo game testing entail?

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I then created a new project and empty level, built the width of that straight section and started recording the motorcycle and vehicle actions using game mechanics and take recorder. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map. REAL-TIME 3D COURSES

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Written by Michail Katkoff , games executive and founder of Deconstructor of Fun, and Niek Tuerlings , Senior Game Designer and author of popular game development blog Ludocious.com. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

Jordan Weisman, best known for developing the likes of BattleTech and MechWarrior, recently unveiled a new project, called Adventure Forge. First, we have the universe level where you establish things like game mechanics, abilities, characters, locations, statistics and so on. We’re not racing towards AIs telling stories.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

The developers were able to combine the best of the two previous versions of Castlevania in this game, creating an icon for the ages. Players would navigate through various levels of traps, puzzles, and enemies to claim victory. There are two sections per level and puzzles to solve along the way. The Best GBA Games.

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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. Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. Try different combos, too.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

Ultimately, the aim is to make the game accessible to a wider market without ruining the game experience that the developer intended. It may look easy when we receive a project and the developers provide us with a rich localization kit full of design documents, scripts, explanations, and possibly an early version of the game itself.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. The sun shines brightly on the canopy of the forest, and the trees use this wonderful energy to grow and develop their beautiful foliage. Need help on your board game? Sound simple?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados!

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Save for a few unicorns ( Fortnite , AFK Arena ), the genres and game mechanics feel to me largely unevolved. If you choose to employ a different strategy, you completely re-organize your team and your units.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In each of the design diaries that I have written so far, I have focused on a specific game mechanic or isolated portion of the game. The Race to the Finish. Need help on your board game? I initially liked the idea of it being a surprise.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

However there is a persistent stigma: Asian developers struggle in the West and Western developers struggle in Asia. This may seem small, but it has been a slowly growing trend which was mostly dominated by domestic developers. Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game.

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