Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. What makes these strange hybrid “casino battler” games tick? And this isn’t a one-off anomaly.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Showcasing GameMaker Studio 2 Summary In this lesson, Aaron introduces you to GameMaker Studio, highlighting its capabilities by showcasing popular games created with it, and walking through its user interface and core components of a 2D game. These are games that I have played that are really, really awesome.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

link] Next, Will worked on modifying the death systems for our main character (and some of the game's enemies) to allow them to utilize the new death animations Producer Allie recently created (make sure you check out the Game Production section to see them in action). Take a peek!  [link]. Take a look!

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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!). Rings and tail charms that will assist during gameplay.

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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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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures.   The following video by Stan Prokopenko is a cool point to start with. I realised this for myself when trying to make a character for my game and the traditional way of setting up a skeleton (the sketches in the white box of the image) just gave me over and over again similar results.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Visual effects (VFX) compositors are in high demand in many industries such as film-making, gaming, and animation. A VFX compositor works in the tail end of a VFX “pipeline” or production process. VFX compositors also work on less noticeable VFX elements like rain, fog, and stray hairs. What Does a VFX Compositor Do?

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