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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

When looking at time spent in games, Creative Sandbox games such as Roblox and Minecraft dominate growth in many markets. At the same time, cross-platform open-world RPG Genshin Impact continues to break new ground, crossing its $3 Billion in IAP Spend in Q2 2022. Globally, time spent grew 25% from 2021 to 2022.

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Far Cry 6 – How Ubisoft Put Effort into Putting No Effort In At All

Game Errors

Putting Effort into Putting No Effort In At All Before tearing into this game for being one of the most low-effort games in the Far Cry era, one has to say that if this were a brand new game with a different title and from a different developer, you would praise its mechanics and some of its graphics and design.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Streaming is the most important feature missing for managing large scenes or open worlds. Sandbox style simulations.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture. …alert level xD. That’s a problem.

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What is Web3 Gaming? | Moonmana

Moonmana

The worldwide game development industry has come a long way from games with simple gameplay and mechanics to complex feature-rich titles. Metaverse worlds These are immersive virtual spaces constructed from user-generated content and containing gamification elements to encourage users’ collaboration and socialization.

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