Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

If you take the wrong path, or you follow low-quality resources you’ll pick up bad coding practices, poor optimization techniques, and overall a bad structure for a game project. That’s why we always emphasize to people what they need to learn and give them clear directions and guidelines. Visual Coding & Coding.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Conflict between designer intent and player behavior actually predates video games as it is a common issue with historical wargames. – and how to recreate the pressures that led to bad decisions even when we all know the outcome. What was the US administration’s strategy and what did they think would work? How to kill off your heir?

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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. The opinions stated are our own and do not reflect any of our past or current employers. To be frank, no.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A currency is simply a human agreement that something that is inherently valueless, such as a piece of shiny paper or some zeros and ones on a computer screen, has value. Cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn: 4 separate growth areas that promoters and shysters conflate, to the detriment of us all.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This is no wonder, given that the business model has evolved from premium products to free-to-play, subscriptions, and ad monetization while competing against other forms of entertainment such as video streaming and social media. Received this email from a friend? Subscribe here! 2022 has been the opposite. And the same happened to Metaverse.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

Command & Conquer + Mobile F2P Command and Conquer is a monument of video games culture. This analysis is written by Alexandre Macmillan and Michail Katkoff. Both of the authors are true fans of Command & Conquer franchise and both of the authors understand all to well how hard it is to ship a hit mobile game. It’s polished.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

‘Tis the season of being grateful and thankful…for holiday shopping guides. This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. It’s so big that we’ve split it up into different sections to make it easier for you to navigate. Nothing shows up twice and all items can be found on Amazon or Etsy. Need help on your board game?

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Here is a video of the brief introduction to this topic that I gave at Banff. Eventually this will turn into a formal paper, but in the meantime here’s where we’re at: Why Depth? We are only looking at the very focused domain of game-as-problem. We are only looking at the very focused domain of game-as-problem.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 19, 2022

Download Full PDF Report. Sign up with your email address to receive the full PDF report, and subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun and Naavik newsletters. Email Address. Download PDF. We respect your privacy. You’ll notice that your PDF download has started. If not, please refresh the page and try again. If you like it, you will love Naavik Pro !

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

In terms of gameplay, Clash Mini is a casual version of autochess oriented that removes the most complex mechanics of the genre (resource management, complex effects, huge roster…) and decreases match length to a few minutes. This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Riot combined a full-blown media blitz with a Twitch integration that awarded beta keys to people viewing Runeterra streams to secure approximately a zillion eyeballs on their new game for a few days. Now, the window for the announcement preview beta has closed, and Riot will be back on November 14th to showcase Runeterra again. Runeterra’s Design.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it.

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