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Hypercasual games stagnate, but Japanese publisher KAYAC maintains faith

PreMortem.Games

.” “As evident from everyone’s fixation on social media for years, content that humans instinctively find interesting continues to emerge infinitely. Our game Eating Simulator , for instance, drew inspiration from this YouTube video with 1.6M As a result, many publishers are struggling to find new game ideas.”

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How to Work in a Team in the Board Game Industry

Brand Game Development

I’m a designer, and I do development and social media outreach. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. When designing the game itself, it’s more important to marry yourself to the experience than it is the mechanics of the game. Will is the lead designer.

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What is a Tabletop Game? This is Everything that Goes into Making a Board Game.

Brand Game Development

Not only does it help you demystify some of the speech you hear when you get into gaming, but it also has implications that could affect how you classify your website, categorize your Kickstarter campaign, or target an audience on social media or for advertising. What are hobby board games? Hobby board gamers have a passion.

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2022 Predictions #1 The King is back, Merge overheats and Hypercasuals falter

Deconstructor of Fun

Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Otherwise, the CPIs would already be way more than their upper limits which cause the certain death of yet another Hypercasual prototype.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars.

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That Lonesome Valley as cowboy coin crusher

Radiator Blog

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise.

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What Is AI Art and How is it Created?

Game Designing

It improves the visuals and the performance of game simulations and provides more realistic, interactive, and immersive gaming experiences. Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches.

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