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The Heart of Gaming Is the Power Fantasy

The Bottom Feeder

Video games function best as power fantasies. Not all games are power fantasies, and not all gamers want that. What Do We Mean By "Power Fantasy"? Power Fantasy" is usually used as a pejorative term. What makes video games different from other artistic media? In other words, all video games take place in Fantasy.

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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

PreMortem.Games

It allows players to instantly swap places with any physics based object which allows for some clever puzzling through the relentless levels. “We So, a fantasy setting instead of everyday environments would provide the most room to be creative without being too shackled to anything too specific.”

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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using In-Game Collaboration Events to Boost Player Retention

Game Refinery

The collaboration involved two One Piece games – One Piece Treasure Cruise and One Piece Bounty Rush – as well as Monster Strike , Knives Out , Puzzle & Dragons , and Granblue Fantasy. As an example, Granblue Fantasy is an RPG with heavy social ements, while Puzzle & Dragons is a Match3 puzzle game.

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David Olamide’s joyous journey that led to an internship in his own company

PreMortem.Games

While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes. In the early days of Dimension 11, Africacomicade would repost our content on social media and because their platform has more people engaging, the message went far and wide.

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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

iXie gaming

Meaning of Mobile Games Mobile games are those created for portable electronic devices including smartphones, cellphones, pocket PCs, PDAs, tablet PCs, and portable media players. On Android and other mobile devices, you may play a variety of fantastic games ranging from puzzles to adventure. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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Six Truths About Video Game Stories

The Bottom Feeder

I'm not a great fantasy writer. Gamers are the most forgiving, tolerant audience of any media. Portal and Portal 2 were adequate, competent puzzle games elevated into hit classics by good writing. Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. Now let's be clear. This isn't true.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #24

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Welcome back to the fantasy, friends! You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Now, let's get ready to amp up the magic and dive headfirst into the dark fantasy of Kristala.

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