Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

And the Queen’s Blood puzzles are extremely well designed. The chocobo racing was pretty cool too, felt like a nice little Mario Kart kinda experience. But still, it’s super fun. PRO : Barret.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. 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. Puzzle Games The King is Back.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The game’s puzzle-solving elements add depth, forcing players to explore and interact with their creepy surroundings. These games have pushed boundaries, set our pulses racing, and proven that the world of gaming has an unparalleled ability to bring our darkest fears to life.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. Games developed with the fantasy realism art style often involve aliens, races, and creatures that aren’t “real” yet are depicted realistically within the game world. The collage art style is a perfect solution for side-scrollers, indie, and puzzle-based games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, Spyke Games tapped into their puzzle experience from Peak and summoned one of the key elements of every successful puzzle game: Obstacles! Do you lack depth in your puzzle levels? The use of the “Frog” obstacle in Tile Busters (left) and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (right). Just slap some obstacles!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

In terms of revenue, the genres that took the most damage were: #1 Racing (revenue -28%, downloads +8%) The genre was down early a third down due to a decline across all titles. And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well. while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

To succeed in Nintendo testing, you must be prepared for many replays since Nintendo games often have hidden secrets and intricate puzzles. These genres may include platformers, action-adventure, racing titles, and role-playing games. Therefore, your patience and determination are key to flawless testing.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map. I then created a new project and empty level, built the width of that straight section and started recording the motorcycle and vehicle actions using game mechanics and take recorder. The plan was to have a three-to-four-shot sequence.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps). Similar to Fall Guys, there’s a lot of variation in the map types, which range from races to the finish line and team-based games to survival modes as sections of the map disappear. Visually, the game is very impressive, perhaps more so than Fall Guys.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

We’re not racing towards AIs telling stories. Together they empower designers to create everything from text based interactive fiction, to visual novels, and all the way up to rich isometric RPGs like the Shadowrun games we made at Harebrained Schemes. GameDaily: How far are you using AI in Adventure Forge?

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. This video game genre includes sub-genres like racing, combat, team and sports-based fighting game. Racing Games In racing games, the players take part in a racing competition.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Players would navigate through various levels of traps, puzzles, and enemies to claim victory. There are two sections per level and puzzles to solve along the way. GT Advance Championship Racing. Test drive incredibly fast exotic cars on tracks set around the world, and you’ve got this GT Advance Championship Racing edition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre. The low entry barrier creates a race to the bottom where publishers will need to compete for developers on the basis of revenue share. On the other hand, Hypercasual game UA is targeting very broadly already.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Anyway when you get to late-game and you're racing to play a super powerful unit first, you’re happy to slow the opponent down with Jail. In fighting game parlance, that's known as an "option select," which is also the name of a Puzzle Strike chip!) I wonder how the logistics of that work. First, Injunction.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. The more lightning they collect, the stronger the charge, increasing their chances in the competition.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

This puzzle game provides grids of small shapes of different colors. Focusing on improving the original Doom, the Ultimate Doom picks up with demons continuing to ravage the world, and the fight to save the human race continues on. This sequel sees players taking on the role of a ruler over one of 13 races. The Ultimate Doom.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 25, 2023

Aim for 60 frames per second or greater for fast-paced or competitive games like shooters, races, or fighters. 50 FPS: Not bad for puzzle games. A good FPS for gaming would be at least 30 frames per second for most games. Anything less can be unplayable and unpleasant. You may benefit from smoother and more responsive gameplay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. Launch Valorant on mobile! Take risks.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

The wide selection of video game genres means that translators won’t be stuck on high-fantasy language or racing games for the rest of their careers but might also need to learn about cooking, board games, politics, astrophysics (okay, maybe I am exaggerating), and so on. So wear that top hat and be prepared to solve some puzzles!

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Still, even the most ingenious crime is only a puzzle for the world’s only consulting detective—Sherlock Holmes! The race then begins to draw and discard until one player positions ten cards in numerical sequence. Description from Manufacturer. 7 Wonders $45 (and 7 Wonders Duel $25). Sounds like a winner to me! Sound simple?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre. In its Q4 2017 financial report —its first full quarter as a public company— Rovio admitted it was unable to significantly scale what it had previously identified as growth titles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Rapid and Constant Beats the Race There are many ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. Back then, Deconstructor of Fun wasn’t sharing yearly predictions based on detailed gaming taxonomy….

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Although the feline-like Anagativa and the rodent-like Kotakaya are the most prominent creatures featured in Kristala, the Kota aren't the only rodent race that thrives on planet Ailur. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Sound Design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Key #2: New Troop Types Keep Meta Fresh and Exciting A battle-strategy game’s “meta” is the Strategy-Team-Unit puzzle: you attempt to master the game by building the best deck in service of your strategy. If you choose to employ a different strategy, you completely re-organize your team and your units.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

The Race to the Finish. In a game like Tasty Humans, each player is primarily lost in their own world of puzzle-solving. While not ideal (especially if some of the players are struggling with analysis paralysis), I deemed that the advantages tipped the scale in favor of the snake draft.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. Pax Pamir is perhaps that alternate version of Race – Pamir is not a bad engine-building game, it’s a good some-other-sort-of game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Similar to Heroes Charge, Puzzles and Dragons, Empires and Puzzles, Idle Heroes, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, Legendary, and Marvel Strike Force. King’s Tower — Race to the Finish Similar to Peaks of Time and Campaign, this mode is another permanent progression mode.

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