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Game-Changing Storytelling: How To Integrate Narrative Elements in Mobile Games

Game Refinery

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. Storytelling elements in Gossip Harbor.

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

PreMortem.Games

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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Ancient China comes to life in Thriving City: Song by White Star Studio

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White Star Studio, a small and ambitious game development studio based in Shenzen, China, has captured the essence of ancient China in their game Thriving City. This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city.

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Tape to Tape by Excellent Rectangle is the world’s first hockey roguelite

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Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. Combining the world of ice hockey with a roguelite may seem like an odd match, but for game designer Hugo Julien and his fellow co-founders Jean-Nicolas and Mathieu Fortin, it was a natural choice.

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The Mobile Games Industry In the Year 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. Featuring is a memory from the past. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low.

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Why it took Abbey Games a decade to come up with a sequel to debut hit Reus

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Dutch indie game developer Abbey Games has been on quite the journey since the release of their breakout hit, Reus , a decade ago. Now, after a long wait, Abbey Games is back in action with the sequel Reus 2. We went from working with 12 people, down to 3, and now we’re back up to 10 working on Reus 2.”

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Epic Games Store woos third party support

Game Daily

Since its launch in 2018, Epic Games Store has spent bucket loads of money on giving away free games, in order to attract PC gamers away from Steam. Part of Epic’s attraction is its range of popular first-party games such as Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys. Success has been hard to come by.

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