Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

Jordan Weisman: Sure, Our goal with Adventure Forge is to empower people to make games that tell the stories they’ve always wanted to tell. GameDaily: How do I, as someone with no coding experience and a lack of artistic talent, go about making a game in Adventure Forge? Jordan Weisman: It works on a couple of different levels.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

At first glance, it was clear what type of game they were emulating. A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market. The Core Game Loop.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And games haven't been the most value-driven industry in my opinion (referring to the abuse of addictive mechanics in games for profit, massive company layoffs to meet financial targets and the pressure on teams to deliver, leading to crunch and toxic behaviours, etc.). Industry peers asked me: “What games will you make?” “Do

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Compare two games Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring. Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. The game features edgier imagery, corrupted natural environments, hostile characters, and realistic sound effects. Is your world stormy and moody, or bright and sunny?

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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. Need help on your board game? Brandon: That’s an exciting theme!

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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. Installs are supporting the story.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

My predictions below relied on the premise that good writing would basically force some events to happen, and I was thrown by a loop by the, well, not good writing. I leave this prediction post up for reference anyway —- I’m going to give my predictions for how Game of Thrones ends up. It’s practically game mechanics in action.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics?

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I'm a nobody on the outside, looking at a giant development monolith and trying to figure out how this game could possibly have ended up where it did. I don't want to write a review. When making a game like this, there should be lots of debate. Is that new mechanic fun? Its flaws are interesting flaws. Is this line funny?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. 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. Shooters got creamed”, too, he said – down 33%.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture. …alert level xD. That’s a problem.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 12, 2004

Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren't really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. Backwards Puzzles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It does a good job at solving the issues many of these games have, which is the One Deck Problem by forcing you to have multiple decks fully upgraded to finish the campaign. The game's complexity, especially for new players, is a significant challenge, with an overwhelming number of game mechanics introduced rapidly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does a good job at solving the issues many of these games have, which is the One Deck Problem by forcing you to have multiple decks fully upgraded in order to finish the campaign. The game's complexity, especially for new players, is a significant challenge, with an overwhelming number of game mechanics introduced rapidly.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.) Human-only free-for-all games of Civilization look a lot different from traditional single-player as there is often a lack of trust between humans, which leads to much more defensive play.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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