Designer Notes

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Robin Hunicke, co-founder of Funomena and best known for her work on MySims , Boom Blox , and Journey. They discuss why HyperCard was so great, why AI development is game design, and how Steven Spielberg almost made Angry Birds for EA. Games discussed: Pitfall , M.U.L.E.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

This week, I will test this broader industry hypothesis against our very own gaming industry. Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. Likely both. The biggest group (37%) of respondents was working fully remotely.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Is it the artwork in itself that is not selling the game? Exit mobile.

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Game Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Still, inexplicable demand for a summertime Los Angeles showcase of future game releases has resulted in the tired marketing presentation called Summer Game Fest, hosted by the blandly agreeable Geoff Keighley. This event somehow managed to encapsulate much that is wrong with gaming, and that has been wrong for a very long time.

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Rampant Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Not that all (or even most) of my gaming is in VR. I’m still retro-gaming regularly and I am really looking forward to the PC release of Persona 5 next month. While a lot of approaches and conventions have solidified for certain genres of games, there’s still nothing set in stone, especially as the tech keeps improving.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nearly every industry will evolve courtesy of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – and the gaming sector isn’t an exception. Generative AI is one of the technologies with the potential to revolutionize how developers create games. How will it transform the gaming landscape? But what is generative AI?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 1995, the game formerly known as Settlers of Catan was nothing more than the obscure creation of designer Klaus Teuber. The board game market as we know it today did not exist yet. Catan was the first major hobby board game to come into existence. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

and Deconstructor of Fun’s latest collaborative report, we dive deep into a comprehensive analysis of the mobile gaming sector and which genres are defying the economic slowdown. Nevertheless, mobile gaming represents a whopping 61% of all games revenue , a number that would be even larger should we account for all the in-app-ad revenue.

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The Art of the Game

AUGUST 6, 2021

The next one I can’t discuss much – I will say it was with a major VR platform and they offered me $75 Amazon credit to spout off about my half-assed approach to game dev and life in general. Lastly, a chat with 2 local fellas about being a stay at home dad. By far one of my faves, cause I got paid for it.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Game analytics is a core factor in the life of every game developer, regardless of whether you’re an employee at a startup or an established corporation like Konami. No matter how big the development team is, game analytics will be incredibly valuable. It reveals how long users spend playing your game.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

I realized that in my push to create Highways & Byways , I’ve neglected six very powerful background skills that make game developers great. Game development is about more than just game development, folks. Need help on your board game? Here’s the goals I’ve set for my company, Pangea Games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This renews Reality Labs' engagement to support the free and open source Godot game engine, after a first grant in December 2020. release Godot 3 now supports the Meta Quest 1 and 2, Meta Desktop XR (including Link) on Windows, and SteamVR on both Windows and Linux. With the OpenXR plugin 1.1.0 The upcoming OpenXR plugin 1.1.1

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Star Trek: Prodigy ’s freshman season has been fairly consistently fantastic, and while I don’t think “ Supernova Part 2 ” quite lives up to the same level of quality, I do think the season’s final episode sets us up for a really fantastic coming season two. Supernova Part 2” could have gone in two directions.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail stores, it helps to set small, achievable goals. Just one board game in one board game store! Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! She cold emailed me about her board game, Wing It , which is in an estimated 300 stores across the world.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 30, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Launching a board game on Kickstarter is an extremely nerve-wracking experience. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Instead of focusing directly on game development, I’ve focused on learning as much as I can about board games. Need help on your board game? Want to learn game development?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Half a life, in fact! Given that I actually started work on UO on September 1st 1995, it’s actually more than half. The fact that the game is still running is a testament to the devoted community and the ongoing maintenance over the years from countless people. W ell, twenty-five years is a long time. A nice moment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In 2020 Casino games revenue grew by 47% while installations soared by over 60%. In 2020 Casino games revenue grew by 47% while installations soared by over 60%. As people were locked down and real-life casinos shut down, casino games on mobile made bank.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 20, 2023

Used much more widely than its name implies, architectural visualization processes are employed across myriad industries — from building and construction to film and video games to product design and VR. Think of classic games like Grand Theft Auto , as well as more recent games like Dying Light 2: Stay Human.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. Mobile knockout games are springing up everywhere - such as Stumble Guys or Netease’s Eggy Party , which launched with a UGC creator mode last May.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Get ready for a real treat if you've ever been curious about the M&A in the gaming industry. We're about to explore what a typical work-week looks like for a Mergers & Acquisitions executive, navigate through the major obstacles that can obstruct deals, and stay at the forefront of the latest trends in the gaming industry M&A.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sony holds its exclusive State of Play event every year where they announce new products, intellectual properties and exclusive content for previously released games. Along with the PS5 having released almost two years ago, the transition into a new generation of gaming has begun. Like a Dragon Ishin.

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Tom Francis

AUGUST 2, 2016

I’m in a cabin in the woods in Sweden for seven weeks, with 20ish other game developers, all working on our own games. None of us have finished yet, but we have successfully developed the following non-digital games along the way, and I release them to you now: Throw A Rock As Far As You Can. Players: 2. Players: 2.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2019

It's been about a month and a half since the release of 3.1-stable GLES 2 crash on older iOS devices was resolved. FPS snapping in the Animation player was added to the engine, along with other quality of life improvements. And many more small quality of life improvements and bugfixes. series Godot 3.1.1-Stable.

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Jesper Juul

JUNE 8, 2021

I had already written a paper on independent games in 2014, but it wasn’t until August 2015 that I decided to write the book that became Handmade Pixels. How long does it take to write a book? I must confess I had no idea, but writing Handmade Pixels took me 1000 hours over the course of 4½ years. Finding the time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Vietnamese developer WolfFun breathed new life into its top-down MOBA Heroes Strike by relaunching it with blockchain-based play-to-earn mechanics. projects in the crypto space, Thetan Arena is a fun game and a well-rounded, complete product. As a company, should you be considering making your next game play-to-earn?

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It's not good in basically the same way that Wheel of Time, The Witcher Season One, and the end of Game of Thrones are not good. End book/game. Then they could be fun to watch as they follow minor plots and the main story grinds to life. Medieval fantasy about how honor is a sucker’s game might work. Collect money.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 21, 2023

I've seen them all, and I still wasn't sure who half these people were. Also, every character who died in an earlier one has been brought back to life, and every former bad guy is a good guy now. A fun writing exercise: For each 2+ hour action movie, figure out who and what to cut to get it below 2 while improving the movie.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Some of you remember 2010 when games on Facebook were booming! That’s when many of us started our careers in free-to-play games. And if you were in the heydays of Facebook games, you will also remember how the party ended abruptly in 2012. Facebook used games for growth and discarded them quickly as it didn’t need them anymore.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

I've been writing indie games for a living for 30 years now and so have been shipping them continuously for longer, as far as I know, than anybody else, ever. If you want to make a living selling indie games, my first question is always, "Can you compete with FREE?") Single game logo. Also, wait for user reviews of games.

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Raph Koster

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Lest we forget, the other half of Brand’s formulation was “Information also wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life.”. In a typical game, you never owned anything. L et’s get one thing out of the way first. How Virtual Worlds Work. 5: Ownership.

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