PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Games that have a huge fan base.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. Since 2018, Supercell has failed to ship a game that could survive a soft launch.

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Game Design Advice

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I love Serpentes, a game by Benjamin Soulé that you can buy here , and I want to tell you why. Serpentes is a variant of the classic computer game Snake. Every time you eat a type of fruit it reveals one more of its qualities, so that by the end of the game every fruit you grab triggers multiple effects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

It halves the resolution of the image until there's only one pixel left. This is why for pixel-art games you often either change the filtering mode of textures or need to disable mipmaps to make the game look nice and sharp. ). OpenGL usually generates those for you.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. Culminating with the highest revenue month the game has seen in years in January 2024. WTF is going on?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

With CSG, a game can be developed almost entirely without relying on 3D environment artists, only for that content to be filled in the end when gameplay is already working. Nothing was really meant for games. Instead the implementation in Godot does triangle-triangle raytracing to detect which halves ended up inside the intersection.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TWIG 220 The problem with Kotaku and why Xbox Game Pass is the doom Missed a previous newsletter? The Real Danger of the Microsoft's Activision Deal & 2023 Predictions for Blockchain Games. Following its first full quarter as a public company, its market value halved in short order. In 2017, the company generated €297.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Even on the lowest quality settings, rendering at an halved resolution may be required on low-end systems. is the ability to export games coded in C#, as such it's not fully usable in production yet.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The game also features some nice little tweaks to the gameplay that differentiate it from its rivals.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

Euler(pronounced Oiler) is one of the most common methods of rotation in games and animation, We have a rotation axis for x, y and z. 5 for the first one, and the two halves are both.25 In an actual game, each could be given different limitations to make them more unique. Duration is.5 25 seconds each.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2022 has been a tough roller coaster for blockchain games. Of course, not everything was all bleak and hopeless where new teams like Plai Labs and Fenix Games were spun out of already existing ones with war chests that would make even the Q4 2021 teams jealous. and crowded roadmaps.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Logjam by Robert Yang Logjam is the latest in my gay sexuality series -- a short small game about a middle aged lumberjack daddy processing wood and other hard things. SPOILER WARNING: This post spoils what happens in the game. Across an 8 hour in-game work day, that's about 8 IRL minutes per play session.) It is "NSFW".

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