Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

When the Nintendo GameBoy was first released in 1989, it was a revolution in personal gaming. Other handheld game systems came out around the same time, including Sega Game Gear, NEC TurboExpress, and the Atari Lynx. Fortunately, the DS was backward-compatible, meaning it could play GBA games just fine. That’s okay.

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Game Errors

APRIL 26, 2023

The Far Cry series currently includes five numbered games and several spin-offs. And they’re all completely different games. Far Cry is just famous for the fact that each new game is something very different from the previous ones. Story and characters : The game’s story and characters are well-written and engaging.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

The Ants stood out from the crowd with its unusual theme – the game follows the life of an ant colony trying to make it in the wild – and piqued the interest of gamers all over the world, managing to reach top200 in the US and Japanese market. Japan and the US are the game’s biggest markets. General data on The Ants.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And while those two titles dominate the top charts, Playrix road to the top started a long time ago with a non-assuming little game know as Township. The game was launched in 2011 as a freemium social game first as Google+ (!) Strong iPad monetization indicates that this is a game played at home by a more mature audience.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It mixed beloved Beatles and games with time. Robert Zemeckis is a director with a rather interesting fate. He entered the big cinema stage as the author of major films and gave the world several iconic pictures filled with deep reflections on the past and future.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 13, 2013

NOTE: Now that Return To Monkey Island has been announced it's important to note that a lot of my views (but not all) in this post have changed. One - I am not making another Monkey Island. I have no plans to make another Monkey Island. I am not formulating plans to make another Monkey Island. Monkey Island deserves that.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 9, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS Star Trek: Picard has finally let up its assault on my blood pressure by providing an ending rather than a cliff-hanger, and it’s an ending that bookends nicely with this season’s TNG roots. Picard leaves him to his misery, and Jack follows his father. Shaw, however, hasn’t been idle since he turned over command to Riker.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 10, 2014

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let's delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. The game is full of dead end puzzles and the flow is uneven and gets bottlenecked too much. For this article, I'm going to go with Chart. It's Sunday.

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Game Industry News

JULY 13, 2023

Captain Pike and Captain Batel are trying to find some time together, but they keep getting interrupted. However, Batel gives Pike an Opelian Mariner’s stone as a thoughtful gift just before Pike convinces himself to break up with her due to the inconvenience of trying to find a way to make the relationship work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

Full disclosure: both of the authors are decade-long fans of Supercell and their games. While our analysis may to some seem harsh, we assure you that it’s only reflective of the expectation Supercell puts on their games. This week, Supercell soft-launched a new crafting tycoon game called Everdale. Everdale = Hay Day 2.0?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala at Play NYC 2021. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. If you're a big lover of fantasy games (and we're betting you are!),

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

He begins to play a Trill game with Zora when she confesses to feeling overwhelmed by the information flowing from her ship’s processes. The game allows Zora to focus, and once she calms a bit, she detects something pressing on the outer hull. Gray encourages her to tell Burnham as they continue to play the game together.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As a result, the discussion of this episode will deal with some explicit themes. Younger readers and parents should take that into consideration both in reading this review and in watching the episode. The episode’s other story also represents a significant step backward even in the character arc established by this sequence.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Having said that, we would all agree that games like Coin Master aren’t “truly Casino” even though they are classified in the same category according to our taxonomy. Securing the Casino Cash Cows It is well known that Casino players tend to play 3-5 casino games at the same time - usually slots. Ad revenues not included.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 12, 2004

I wrote this back in 1989 while I was designing Monkey Island. A lot has changed for Adventure Games as well, but unfortunately not in the right direction. Adventure Games are officially dead. I learned a lot from Monkey Island 1 and 2, plus countless kids Adventure Games at Humongous Entertainment.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

And since the only way to get most Magic players to care about a character is to put a card depicting that character into their hands, it was time to add them to the game. Part Two (Developing Betrayers of Kamigawa and the Jitte mistake). Part Three (Developing Ravnica, unleashing Friggorid, and designing MTGO Vanguard).

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