PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA. Legends of Orisha: Blood & Water is currently in development. What is Unity?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

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. Outside of Merge, 2021 felt a bit empty with respect to new puzzle games.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Eat villagers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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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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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

I actually tried a similar system while prototyping Civilization 3 but didn’t feel comfortable that we were predetermining what the borders of a city would be before actually founding the city. I wanted city borders to still grow organically based on player choice, even at the risk of still enabling ICS.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Seattle, USA-based studio Polyarc showcased the highly immersive nature of VR earlier with their popular puzzle platformer Moss. He explains: “Interestingly enough, when the studio was founded, there were two prototypes that were built. That ultimately became Moss as you know. And we don’t want players to have too much downtime!

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

While many teams will spend much of the year working on post-IDFA transformation plans, other secular trends within the gaming and, broadly, mobile create circumstances that -- perhaps in concert with IDFA deprecation -- can provide a real opportunity to developers. Will CPMs fall enough to offset the impact on CPIs for most advertisers?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This means cutting new games in development, investing in revenue-generating titles, reducing headcount, and implementing hiring freezes. That’s a perfect definition of eyebrow-raising skeptical move that was a response to the overwhelming hype that seemed to captivate the investors and executives more than developers and players.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Ending on a prediction each, Haussila said to look out for developers experimenting with games in mobile browsers.

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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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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

It somehow even won a Grammy award, for Baby Yetu, by my college roommate Christopher Tin, which was definitely not even on the radar when we developed the game. So, before I explain why I made Old World, let’s talk a little about what the game is and how it was developed. Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

The timing of the Floodrush beta is puzzling because playing Squad Busters just before Floodrush remarks the weaknesses in the latter. But in my opinion, many of its issues are at prototype level. But again that’s just my opinion as a player and a game developer. Floodrush versus Squad Busters ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Our partner ironSource builds technologies that help game developers take their games to the next level. In casual games overall, puzzle games account for just over 50% of all revenue for 2020.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Early in development, I realized that the game would be best if I could fit the experience into a 30-60 minute time frame. In my first prototype, I had special “Draft Leaders” cards shuffled into segments of the Adventurer deck.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. L of semen for each one.

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