AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI). the #1 casual game launch of 2023 Room 2024, West Hall Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. What Makes a Great Mobile Game? We have first understood the success strategy of a mobile game. Building a Riveting Mobile Game. Make a User-friendly Game.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mobile games are currently at the peak of their popularity. They continue to attract diverse audiences all over the globe, and game developers, for their part, continue offering unique and thrilling titles to suit any taste. . Game development companies catch the wave and try to please picky gamers with compelling mobile games.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath. So, are you ready to unleash your inner game developer? Let’s jump in!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. Coming of age story Mojiken Studio is based in Surabaya, Indonesia and has been around for over ten years. It started as an outsource studio that focused primarily on illustration. ” “In 2015 we did a game jam at Mojiken Studio.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 25, 2024

Building vision AI applications for the edge often comes with notoriously long and costly development cycles. At the same time, quickly developing edge AI. Building vision AI applications for the edge often comes with notoriously long and costly development cycles. Download NVIDIA Metropolis microservices for Jetson.

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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. Prototyping, testing and analytics.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. Moreover, Unity is optimal for beginners: if you lack experience with Java and Android SDK, developing an Android game will turn out to be quite a challenge. Is Unity Good for Mobile Games?

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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. So to get his advice and learn his secrets, we sat down to hear his story and journey as a solo-game developer. And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. Developing Dreadhalls was a challenge in itself.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. However, it becomes difficult for a developer to choose one software from many. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. To make everything working smoothly during the massive online battles requires some very specific skills from the developers.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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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. How do you approach development of Hypercasual games in 2024, considering the general shift towards Hybridcasual? What exactly is KAYAC?

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

As far back as solo developer Sandro Luiz de Paula (aka ansdor) can remember he always wanted to be a game developer. Solo developed games have much more room to be experimental and weird, and I love that.” Why did you become a solo developer? “I It’s the total creative control that drives him.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 9, 2023

Brothers-in-Law Eric Reynolds and Paul Harvey were building a successful business in mobile escape rooms when Covid hit. Mobile Escape had to pivot. After a few days of earnest discussion, ideation and research, we developed a concept called Escape Mail. Step 2: Prototype. We are escape room builders first.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Initially, the company struggled to compete in a hyper-competitive global market, and in a development sector that lacks sophisticated off the shelf game engines. “While our games were web2 focused, we had been following the development of the NFT market,” says Rössig, who also serves as iCandy’s head of Europe.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Last week Tencent and Pokemon unveiled Pokemon Unite , a jointly-developed cross-platform MOBA for smartphones and Nintendo Switch. As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). As a bonus, mobile battle royale history will also be covered.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. What is Unreal?

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Cost Efficiency Game Development Companies can greatly decrease their expenses by outsourcing game art production. Internal development teams frequently participate in multiple business initiatives, resulting in disorder, duplicated efforts, and ineffective workflows. The same logic also applies to hiring outside game developers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

History Most people in the western hemisphere may not be familiar with Call of Duty: Online (CoDO), a project kicked off in 2010 and announced in 2012 as a partnership between Activision and Tencent, with Activision in charge of development and Tencent as the Chinese publisher of record.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Today I'm reinstalling my development computer, so I can't do much programming. Compiling Godot takes increasingly more time, so I guess a new setup is one more way to accelerate Godot development. and nowadays I enjoy developing Godot more than anything else. Developing games is difficult. Motivation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 2018, Fortnite and PUBG were tearing up the charts making all us mobile designers look bad. How was a cosmetic-only economy the #1 revenue generator on mobile? 2019 continued this trend, with PUBG Mobile still being the #1 game on mobile. While some developers (ex. Let’s go through each in order.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

But I have landed and stuck at my current studio, which handled it the best because they make room for us to navigate what works best for us and provide real support through the challenges to get us to a positive outcome. Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. Likely both.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. Our intention was to make a game dev simulator where the player would have finer control over the decisions of what to focus on during game development. This is what the game looked like as a prototype.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. “Not just in terms of cost, but also in terms of design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. It made $5.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 version as much as we enjoyed developing it!

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Game developers and artists can also use AI upscaling to enhance a game’s graphics and image quality. Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches. Art Many new artists are experimenting with AI art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And they will soon launch their new mobile shooter called Catalyst's Black. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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