Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Why are certain games popular right now?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Is Company of Heroes 3 stuck on the loading screen on your PC? This modern strategy game franchise is one of the most popular in the industry because of its unique gameplay mechanisms. Why Company of Heroes 3 is taking forever to load? What should I do if the Company of Heroes 3 is stuck on the loading screen?

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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. Is Thetan Arena a better business than Heroes Strike ?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game? Source ).

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. She earned her place and represented South Africa at prestigious programs like the Epic Games Women Creator Program and the Women in Games International (WIGI) Mentorship Program.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Early this year, when it was first suggested to me that I investigate blockchain gaming, I immediately rejected the idea. In my heart, I am a game designer.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

The charm of this game is off the charts and is the main thing that makes me love it. There’s just so many creative, brilliant, fun to look at, surprising situations – the dev team had a ton of fun making a lot of the game. The “story” in this game is really just… very awful, I’m sad to report.

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The Liquid Fire

JUNE 4, 2023

Good news, I also found a link to more online docs of the second edition game mechanics here. As I understand it, this is all Open Game content, so we should be good there. This will include things like rolling perception checks during exploration, and a variety of mechanics that will be necessary for simple battles.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As I’ve stated many times before, my first influence for Cogmind was the original BattleTech board game , where my friends and I wouldn’t just take stock mechs, but designed our own based on the rules, selecting the right combo of weapons, heat sinks, armor, and special tech. That’d be fun, but overboard. *Oh

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. Making games was something that seemed very far from reality”, he says. Yet, with help from the internet and some classes in college, he realized that he too could create games. Why did you become a solo developer? “I’ve

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Laurie (Avocado Fire) to discuss stories in video games. In this Livecast they talk about the story in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Cloudpunk amongst other topics related to storytelling in video games. Content is objects that have been physically built or created in the game.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. So, here are the standings before the final game between Barbados and Grenada.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. Paid membership also removes in-game ads for a more seamless experience. So, what’s to blame?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In fact, I’ve been thinking this week that in the absence of major game development or logistics challenges, this will be the defining challenge of this Kickstarter campaign. Need help on your board game?

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 12, 2023

Ability scores are an important game mechanic that relate the skills and abilities of creatures and characters to a simple number. Overview When playing games like Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons, you have the opportunity to create the character you will be role playing as.

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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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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It’s generally good in a competitive game when there’s a lot of interaction. If you want to cast any spells, you need a hero in play to cast them—and your heroes can be attacked. In combat, you’re able to attack anything with hit points: any unit, hero, or building. Heroes Heroes are the stars of your army.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nintendo, a household name in the gaming world, has a long-standing tradition of delivering high-quality, immersive gaming experiences to its fans. Thorough testing is a crucial part of the game development process to achieve this level of excellence. But what does Nintendo game testing entail?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

This post is written by our friends, the fantastic Game Bakery substack team. However, the gameplay in Dislyte is nothing new, adopting Lilith’s best practices for CCG-RPG games with validated gameplay, solid meta-features, and gacha-based monetization. The game is, in a way, a follow-up to the widely successful AFK Arena.

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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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Game Errors

APRIL 6, 2023

But now that the game is supposedly polished, all that remains to say is that Ubisoft really doesn’t like its fans. They are not an indie developer, they have been making good shooting mechanics and pretty landscapes for years. The only redeeming feature of this game is that it doesn’t look bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

Some of the best ideas in the gaming industry were inspired by other games and sometimes even created within other games. In our taxanomy, Auto-Chess games don’t yet have their own bubble. The Very Brief History of Auto Chess Games. Please take the numbers with a giant grain of salt.

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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

MAY 23, 2023

Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. What I mean by that it is easy to pick up and play, which for a card game is no small feat. Most importantly, the game was and is performing! What’s the best way to describe Marvel Snap?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. Hoping that your game is going to become a cultural phenomenon is a super long shot and often requires access to a top IP that can be very expensive.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

In this lesson we will begin to fix this issue by introducing size and reach mechanics. I want to know how size relates to space, both in units of feet (because many mechanics reference this real world unit) and in board tiles (where each board tile is the same as 5 feet). This will help me convert from feet to tiles.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. And for that debut the duo came up with an enticing mix of elements that really sets the game apart. “I But that’s not all.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the film, through insert shots of a wristwatch dial and a mechanical alarm clock, the main interest of the Zemeckis' cinematography - time - appears for the first time. It mixed beloved Beatles and games with time.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Guest Post by Ken Landen , an experienced figure in the gaming industry, currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of a startup that's currently in stealth mode. With a career dating back to 2012, Ken has contributed to renowned gaming companies such as Blizzard, Scopely, and Kongregate.

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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. But as we all know with Playrix, their super power is not making the most outstanding games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2024

Not to mention that backend costs of a successful live game were very high. In the realm of game development, the backend is often likened to the unsung hero working tirelessly behind the scenes, powering the intricate mechanics that make our favorite games tick. Scaling up and down as needed.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will add animated sprites to represent both a hero and monster. I recommend checking out the other heroes: cleric, ranger, rogue, and wizard. Both the warrior (hero) and rat (monster) are animated. I only care about facing left and right, though if I were making a top-down game I might want other directions as well.

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