Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Performing a board game autopsy is scary because it requires you to look long and hard at your failures. That fear is why I saved this Start to Finish article for the spookiest time of the year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. What makes these strange hybrid “casino battler” games tick? And this isn’t a one-off anomaly. How To Play?

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A really good, polished game that tries something different? My family just finished playing the hit co-op game It Takes Two. I played it with my wife, and our teenager who was on hand to help us out when the game got too hard. It's a very fun game with very unusual writing, and it's extremely and deservedly popular.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory?

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

This series of articles could be treated as a project guide of the Cocos Cyberpunk that is intended to help you and save your time. Today, I am thrilled to share with you an amazing 3D shooter game project that I think you’ll love. In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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