Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Jaunty Bear Games

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Designing a pirate game can be an exciting and rewarding experience for game developers and players alike. There are many elements to consider when designing a pirate game, including the setting, characters, gameplay mechanics, and overall theme. One important aspect of designing a pirate game is the setting.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 8, 2023

Battle Royale games have only one ultimate winner, but they hand out rewards to all participants. Many games have achievements and secondary goals that grant rewards even if you don't win the match. We can, instead, offer the loser a quick exit and an option to get into a new game quickly.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Generally speaking, the ease of making changes to the game, its narrative/characters/content is inversely proportional to how close that content is to release. We already have the first several seasons of content for this game scheduled - we plan on adding several significant boss fights and content updates over the course of the next year.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. But I have a whole lot of my own personal skin in this game, and I've been writing and speaking on this exact topic for a long time. Our next game!

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Virtual Reality (VR) gaming has taken the world by storm, offering players an immersive and unforgettable gaming experience. With technology constantly advancing, the gaming industry has been able to create some of the most amazing VR games in recent years. Beat Saber Beat Saber is a rhythm-based VR game.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This week while working on my current board game design, a lot of things have come into focus. Now it’s time to start tweaking board game rules. This is where board game design often becomes very tricky. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is by no means a small amount to raise, but what’s interesting is that Spirit Island has remained on the Board Game Geek Hotness list off and on for almost three years. Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye. Need help on your board game? You’re next, agriculture games!).

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. As an example, collaboration events are used by more than 70% of the top 10% of highest-grossing games in the China iOS market.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game? A clear objective.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Free-to-play and live-service games have become well-established in the gaming industry. They provide players with a convenient way to start playing, and the longevity of such games hinges on the appeal of their existing content as well as the strategy for delivering and monetizing future updates.

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Game Errors

JULY 4, 2023

One of Warzone 2 ‘s often overlooked gameplay mechanics is the ability to fire weapons underwater. In this guide, we help you understand the latest mechanics by explaining how underwater combat works in Warzone 2. They can also use boats to fight on rivers and waterways scattered around the map.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Whether you’re a casual gamer looking for some entertainment or a dedicated hardcore game enthusiast, today, we have curated a list of the best high-graphics games for Android just for you. Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! So, are you excited to take a look?

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game. We cover the high concept about making a fighting game more accessible from top to bottom than anything else we've seen, the specific game mechanics we chose to accomplish that, and the resulting dynamics of how it plays. Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Games are more than just a diversion. However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the latest Mortal Kombat 1 (MK1), the iconic franchise has been reborn with a brand new fighting system and gameplay mechanics that can entertain the fans in a more exciting way. But things may go wrong on your PC if this game suddenly stops working and crashes. Run the game as an administrator to see if it works.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

When the Nintendo GameBoy was first released in 1989, it was a revolution in personal gaming. Other handheld game systems came out around the same time, including Sega Game Gear, NEC TurboExpress, and the Atari Lynx. Fortunately, the DS was backward-compatible, meaning it could play GBA games just fine. That’s okay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. So, here are the standings before the final game between Barbados and Grenada.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. head shots), play of the game. There’s usually quite a lot of work for gameplay programmers to do when developing a game.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

Monopoly: it’s one of the oldest board games in the store. It’s one of the top 10 best-selling board games. It’s also a terrible board game. When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game? Monopoly has a staggeringly low 4.4

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Big Games

AUGUST 19, 2021

In general, non-gamers do not have a good opinion about playing mobile games. And discussing the benefits of playing mobile games is a bit of a controversial topic. Though people might find it outrageous to get to know the benefits of playing mobile games, there are authorized and genuine studies and research on this topic.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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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. This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. Paid membership also removes in-game ads for a more seamless experience. So, what’s to blame?

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Mobile gaming has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, with millions of users spending time playing games on their smartphones and tablets. As the mobile gaming market continues to expand, mobile game developers must find ways to make their games stand out in a crowded marketplace. So, let’s dive in!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The list of games is reproduced below. Steam organises a recurring event called the Steam Next Fest : Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch livestreams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam. You have until the 7th of October 2021 @ 17:00 UTC to test the games!

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

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

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Early this year, when it was first suggested to me that I investigate blockchain gaming, I immediately rejected the idea. In my heart, I am a game designer.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sony holds its exclusive State of Play event every year where they announce new products, intellectual properties and exclusive content for previously released games. Along with the PS5 having released almost two years ago, the transition into a new generation of gaming has begun. Like a Dragon Ishin.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

The Ants stood out from the crowd with its unusual theme – the game follows the life of an ant colony trying to make it in the wild – and piqued the interest of gamers all over the world, managing to reach top200 in the US and Japanese market. Japan and the US are the game’s biggest markets. Source: GameRefinery SaaS platform).

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 6, 2023

Usually, any combat encounter in a game that has level differentials assumes certain underlying stats for the agents involved. It’s important to recognize that scaling direction has vastly different effects on the game experience. In order to answer you question, I think it helps break down the way things work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Former Disney and NBCU Execituve Talk the Death of the Games-as-App Before going deeper, let us define the terms: Hypercasual games are the bubble gum of the gaming industry.

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