Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

In May 2023, Japanese video game developer and publisher Capcom completed 44 years as one of the most successful companies in the industry. Corporation, by Kenzo Tsujimoto, while he was still president of Irem Corporation, another Japanese video game manufacturer and publisher. in the early 80s.

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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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Because, let’s be honest, creating games is hard. This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I Her upcoming game, Spilled! ,

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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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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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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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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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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

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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With privacy becoming more important to mobile players and the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in app advertising inventories, the quality of your creatives has never been more important to the success of your games. You can't manually choose to target, because that part of the puzzle is solved by the algorithm.

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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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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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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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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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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like many companies, Meta isn’t throwing the “metaverse” word around with quite the same enthusiasm as a few years back, but the company’s recent Connect presentation shows that it’s still very much in the game. “You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 8, 2018

It covers most of my career, including work on Street Fighter HD Remix, Puzzle Fighter, almost Street Fighter 4, Yomi, Codex, and FantasyStrike. We talk a lot about game design too, such as the difference between a player's perspective and a designer's, as well as what "depth" does or doesn't mean.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Fantasy Strike is an interesting case study in game balance for an asymmetric game. Relying on Experts I find it much easier to balance a competitive game by going off the opinions of experts than looking at data anyway. I did the entire balancing process without any data at all, and now, after it’s all done, we have the data.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. There's a Portal-like moment where you escape the puzzle. Well, I don't know anything about that.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 8, 2023

While trying to play, you may find that Dark and Darker keeps crashing on your computer during mid-game, startup, or at any point randomly. This PvP dungeon-crawling game is very enjoyable. You can compete against other players while surviving traps, completing puzzles, and fighting monsters. Re-install the game.

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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). Why implement minigames?

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Game Errors

MARCH 27, 2023

This can be frustrating as there has been a lot of anticipation for this release, as it is the first game in the series to be played in first-person, unlike its third-person predecessors. Table of contents: Update your graphics driver Close Startup and Background apps Tweak Resident Evil 7 graphics settings Verify game files 1.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

This week, we jump into what it takes to design great Match 3 games and how we would improve Makeover Match. Case: Makeover Match Making games is hard. As player expectations rise and market conditions become more challenging, creating a successful game and maintaining that success is becoming increasingly difficult.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. As the casinos worldwide shut down the Casino games on touchscreen devices hit the jackpot with a nearly 50% increase of IAP spend year-over-year. billion IPO.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Connections T he new daily game at the New York Times is called Connections , and I’ve seen a few people comment that they just don’t like it as much as Wordle or Spelling Bee. I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc. Right now, in addition to my podcasts, I have three main game development projects in the works. Instead.it's fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. Since 2018, Supercell has failed to ship a game that could survive a soft launch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.

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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A bit of research brought up a story from a year ago ( source ) that puts the blame on Google’s algorithm for fighting fake reviews and concluding that genuine reviews are also deleted by it as collateral damage. Lots of them just gave the game a 5-star rating without a custom text. We had just lost over 400. burns in our minds.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Riot for sure succeeded in shipping fast, but they clearly didn’t pay much attention on the business case for the game. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the first part , I went on about the lack of family in video games and the danger of paying attention to critics. Now I'll talk about the actual game. This is a really fun game. It skips from action to pvp games to puzzles to boss fights with blinding speed. TL;DR: It's really good. It's exhilarating.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

The video game industry is a huge and consistent segment of the market. Video games are the first choice for millennials as well as adults who can’t get their childhood gaming addiction off their heads. Every day, new games are released across all platforms, each focusing on a distinct genre.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Astral Clocktower Studios x Game Raven Review. You can listen to our episode of the Game Raven Review podcast right meow!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 9, 2011

The fine folks at Game Forum Germany have been trying to get me to speak there for the past three years, but something has always come up and prevented me from attending, but this year I vowed to go. Maniac Mansion is a game filed with dead ends, backwards puzzles and no-win situations. This year was going to be different.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Wooga GmbH.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

So without further ado… First, a quick overview of the RPG genre Role Playing Games (RPGs) have generated nearly $3Bn in in-app purchase revenues year-to-date in the Western markets. This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. mid-core 2019. mid-core 2019.

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