Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. But is there an ultimate winner?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Starting over, is the game commercially viable? Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

I thought if I practiced enough, I could make 2D games by myself, and so I decided to try it.” Besides, Brazil doesn’t have an established games industry like the US and Japan. Only now, in the past 5 years or so, mid-sized game studios are starting to appear in the country. What’s your creative process? “I

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

“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. “I’m personally very interested in the idea of digital items, as I started my career in F2P monetization and in-game shop management.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Strategy Games in 2020 Strategy games, which are composed out of 7 sub-genres, generated $5B in net revenue during 2020 growing IAP revenues by 21% while the downloads were up 9% year-over-year. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience.

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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.

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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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