Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

We have a few VR games now inspired by Japanese anime styles, including an MMORPG. Role-playing games in VR are unfortunately less common than I would have expected, but not rare. Several weeks ago, Virtual Dreamers has some discussion on the relative absence of JRPG-style games. Outside of art style, of course.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Then corporations took over and poured billions into the place, and now it is a blindingly shiny, supremely odd, iconically American work of art. In Las Vegas, building a city in the middle of a desert is a good idea, your cocktail waitress actually likes you, and poker is a game of skill. It’s absolutely worth seeing.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here is a sample screenshot of the 1080p 45-row terminal layout in the early game, before the inventory even switches to its modal form: 45-row UI layout with non-modal inventory, because there are not yet enough part slots to edge it out of the main interface. Sample part info as fit into a 45-row UI layout. It was a lot.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The neutral cards are generally simpler than the cards of other factions because they are meant as an intro to the game. By playing Bashing vs Finesse, you can learn how the overall game system works while using relatively simpler cards, and fewer cards too. This spell lets you destroy any early game unit, no questions asked.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. or earlier no longer works in 3.2.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ).

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. It’s the first game to come out of the studio since they got laced up with the Supercell rockets. grants internal benchmarks for testing.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this tutorial you’ll create a zombie horde shooter game with Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints. The game is simple but is packed with tons of behind the scenes features that will allow you to understand the “why” behind the “how” a game is created in Unreal Engine 5. Creating The Project.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. That would be bad :P. It made sense to wait as long as possible to carry out this process, but the wait is finally over! Alien Artifacts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer. or earlier no longer works in 3.2.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Stay tuned to future issues of the Kristala game dev blog for updates. Here's a look at the pieces Nick created. Check it out!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. Night Vision. Enhanced Hearing. Jumping/Leaping Abilities.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

If you want my review of Shenmue III it would be 'play this game if you have ever enjoyed a Shenmue game or are interested in unusual approaches to game narrative' It takes me quite a while to get around to playing games these days, which helps insulate me from jumping to kneejerk conclusions about what I've been playing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the new episode of the DoF podcast, we have the honour of hearing from Jordan Mazer , Head of Talent at a16z Games. But before we dive into his insights, let's first acquaint ourselves with a16z Games and the pivotal role Jordan plays in shaping its future. It should not waste time for the sake of filling the time slot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. Culminating with the highest revenue month the game has seen in years in January 2024.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We’ll look at all 20 specs in this series of articles and examine how each plays, what the art looks like, and what the philosophy is for each. Before we go on, let's review some fundamentals about how the game works though. Here’s his hero card: Zane is the only hero in the game with haste. First of all, look at the art!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. Dream Games was founded by two of Peak’s former Product Directors. Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted. It made $5.1

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The cost of discarding two cards is very high, so you won’t want to actually use the ability very much, but the threat of it is a game changer that opponents must do their best to play around. Usually the Squad Leader slot in the patrol zone gets 1 armor, but that's useless against Ferocious units. Is Midori around?

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

A 2/2 with 1 armor from the Squad Leader patrol slot would normally survive getting attacked for 2, but not against Poisonblade Rogue because of her armor piercing. Moving on to tech II, behold this beauty: Besides being one of my favorite pieces of art in the game, she’s also a superstar of efficiency.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. The art for about 800 of Cogmind’s items, shrunk to fit them in a reasonable space :P. (I

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

She loves the performing arts such as dancing, singing, and acting, and considers her fencing yet another kind of dramatic performance. Here is her hero card: When she reaches level 3, she can clear out any single early game defender from the patrol zone. River Montoya is the Finesse hero in Codex.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You might recognize Quince and Onimaru from my other games, but the Law hero, Bigby Hayes, is new in Codex. Bigby’s art is intimidating, but his abilities might not look like much. As a control spec, your first goal with Law is just to survive the early game. I’ll leave you to find those yourself later!)

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Speaking of copying units, you can also do that with this spell from the blue starter deck: Manufactured Truth is part of how you can survive the early game with blue. If you’re worried about your Hound dying before he gets to attack, you could put him in the Lookout slot as a patroller. Do you see what this spell is for?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

This has gone on for decades, with the two groups being influenced by each other, yet struggling to operate their games successfully across this cultural divide. You see, all of us were giant fans of this game and thus we decided to divide and conquer the deconstruction of one of the favourite games of 2019.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This post is sponsored by Lab Cave , a Mobile Growth Company that provides App Store Optimization and Mediation services for mobile Apps and Games. This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category. The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5%

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