PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This article is written by Alexandra Doroshenko from AppMagic. With the success rate of the new games released drastically low, one can’t help but ask two questions: When releasing a game in 2024, which genre should I choose to make the most of it? Top image: Merge Mansion.

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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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Brand Game Development

MARCH 15, 2021

Board games have been wildly successful in the last ten years. That’s why many are surprised to hear that solo board games not only exist but are very common. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. How I Chose the Top 10 Solo Board Games.

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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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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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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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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. For this article, I'm going to go with Chart. The game is full of dead end puzzles and the flow is uneven and gets bottlenecked too much.

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