Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

But succeeding with a +1 game requires a specific skill set such as performance marketing expertise, high-velocity LiveOps, and strong monetization. 4 Supercell missed the boat on performance marketing “We are not heavily dependent on UA, which was negatively impacted by ATT.” It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Each engine has its specific set of features and, therefore, can perform a specific set of tasks. In this article, we’ll provide you with the most comprehensive information on the Unity vs Unreal engine topic. Both engines are capable of creating immersive worlds, yet Unity performs better when it comes to VR or AR projects.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 2, 2021

Your company culture will follow the rule that you can do bad things, and if you’re a top performer or an executive, the company will fix them for you. #3 If you are an investor, make it a requirement that your portfolio companies take this topic seriously and implement code of conduct policies.

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Digital Ephemera

OCTOBER 23, 2021

[This is a preview of content found in the upcoming book, Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language , featured in Chapter 12 on the topic of procedural storytelling with ink + Unity.]. Within such a system, there are three core aspects ( Short, 2019 ): Content. Review of Storylets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

What follows is an overview of the performance of puzzle games over the last year, a retrospective of last year’s predictions for 2020 and some new predictions for the coming year of 2021. Jam City , while showing stronger performance in 2018, has been slowly losing revenue share since. As is the whole Istanbul gaming ecosystem.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

Something that recent events have revealed it’s still an unresolved topic. In my humble opinion, all these solutions are useful patches but do not tackle the core issue. The core of the problem with Web3 games sustainability is that it is not possible to fulfill the player expectation that these are positive-sum games.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

As Fink elaborates, “We have some people sometimes we’re just too bad in some topics so we get help from outside… but apart from this, that’s pretty much it. “The core idea of the game [is] to make something that delivers the same experience but on the very lowest end of hardware that makes sense to me.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2018

Here are some of the main highlights of this release, listed by topic/category. Buffer write performance improvements. [GH-16671]. With 11 months of work and over 450 commits to the 2.1 branch since 2.1.4, there's a lot to cover! Check the detailed changelog for the exhaustive listing. Platform support. GH-20082]. automatically.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

More details can be found under Unity’s official documentation page for Draw Call Batching :       Draw calls are often resource-intensive, with the graphics API doing significant work for every draw call, causing performance overhead on the CPU side. But there are way better solutions for not much money available.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? It’s important to recognize what exactly ATT is: iOS14 launched back in September, but Apple delayed the rollout of ATT until “early 2021.”

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you’re looking for efficiency, performance, and data-oriented programming in your game development platform, Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) may just be what you need. With DOTS, the Unity development team promises “performance by default.” Today, we take a closer look at this powerful framework.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. Fortunately, in desktop OpenGL you can fix this with the widely-supported ARB_clip_control extension (now also core in OpenGL 4.5 as glClipControl ).

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Filmustage

APRIL 26, 2022

Dressed in '50s style and using black humour, the group nevertheless proved relatively successful and even managed to perform in several cities in New Zealand and Australia. At its core, "What We Do in the Shadows" is praised for its grey and humorous take on the hackneyed genre of vampire cinema.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

With more users come more demands and, suddendly, the will to use Godot for larger and more serious projects required that large parts of the core were modernized. became much bigger and more ambitious, and a huge amount of the engine core was rewritten, as well as GDScript. As far as 2021, the status of the 4.0 was a mess.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

With more users come more demands and, suddendly, the will to use Godot for larger and more serious projects required that large parts of the core were modernized. became much bigger and more ambitious, and a huge amount of the engine core was rewritten, as well as GDScript. As far as 2021, the status of the 4.0 was a mess.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

Avoid Trivia questions At its core, engineering is about solving problems and figuring new things out. As the interviewer, it is essential to maintain a friendly and comfortable atmosphere, to put them at ease and allow them to perform at their best. Maybe the database needs one or more Read replicas? Be friendly and smile.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2019

I finished integrating Embree into the engine's build system and also added a simple ray tracing API that allows for defining a set of meshes and perform ray intersection tests among them. There are three aspects that need to be improved: performance, usability and results quality. A lot has happened since the last progress report.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Not only revenue has decreased, but none of the available key performance indicators (KPIs) show any kind of improvement. In my opinion (which is entirely speculative because I don’t have access to their internal data and research), there are several actions that Brawl Stars could explore to recover its performance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But I’m not here to talk about using action-based algorithms to accomplish product-related objectives (that’s a topic for another article); I’d rather discuss how to develop your team’s product mindset. And if they start performing better because they’re doing exactly what we want them to, we’ll end up with an awesome product.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Their success also relies on how they do performance marketing which allowed them to outrun the competition in this fierce market. From shockvertising to fake-ads, Playrix has been at the forefront of (often controversial) performance marketing practices. And revenue followed suit…. What Playrix excels in optimizing the IPM.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability. Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds. Estébanez ( RandomShaper ) has become an expert on this topic and made a number of improvements included in Godot 3.2.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The conversation covers a gamut of topics, ranging from macroeconomics and behavioral economics to generative AI, Unity's strategic shifts, the dynamics of the console market, and much more. Insights are shared on deal structures, revenue-sharing trends, and aligning game design with the core fantasy of the IP.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

Going into action.ts , we can see that the Action class has two main functions: on : Executes the start command off : Executes the end command In UtilAction , all operations that start and end can perform are defined. Actor Module New let’s talk about the most concerned topics: Player Control , Monster Spawning , and Pickable Item Generation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The largest inflection point hit right after Axies successfully migrated to Ronin, which made it economically viable and rewarding to buy, sell, and trade the game’s core NFTs. Analysing Axie Infinity’s Users As with any game, Axie Infinity’s market performance can be measured by looking at Users and Revenue. Source: Messari.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

In this article, we are going to explore this topic: Does Lost Ark help MMORPG in the western market enter a new age？ Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

Ultimately, it seems that the strategy has been around completing the game with side mechanics and not touching the core. There has been nothing as radical and core as the screen orientation change on Brawl Stars. Gizmos is a new gameplay mechanic that consists of static units with powerful unique effects.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’re reading this likely because you’re interested in the mid-core market. Well, one of the biggest trends in mid-core games is growing your business on mobile and beyond. Mid-Core is Where the In-App-Purchases are Made. Mid-core games tend to focus on deeper meta-games that offer good long-term monetization.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Once again, thanks to the Cocos Cyberpunk development team, Without this open-source project, I wouldn’t have an engineering-level case to share this topic. It uses the shadow map to generate shadows, performs lighting calculations, and produces various looks. In Fragment Shader, perform lighting calculations with the 7 lights.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

In terms of gameplay, core rules have been changed to increase depth, bringing it closer to the standard autochess formula: The July 2023 update removed the ability to reposition units once deployed (improving predictability on the opponent positions) and added drafting rules to the Rumble (increasing the depth on deckbuilding).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell’s Financial Performance in 2016-2019 (source: www.supercell.com). #2 While Boom Beach never reached Clash of Clans’ performance, it topped $1B in lifetime revenues. the Builder Base and its new core loop and gameplay) and spent real development time on quality-of-life improvements Stayed at the forefront of innovation (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

More recently, web3 games like Skyweavers and DeFi Kingdoms are designed with game markets as the core system at the heart of the game – the market IS the game, and all players are expected to interact with it. I propose three core components: Fun Assets. Even non-game markets are increasingly “fun”. are growing phenomena.

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Since this is an addendum to a tutorial series where we've covered advanced topics, I'll assume you know what a stack is and how it works. RPN Class We're going to encapsulate the core of the implementation in a class. After the operation is performed, we also always want to clear the display and start typing over.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

See our previous announcement for a quick presentation of each topic. escn , which is the same text format as.tscn but will be converted to the binary.scn format on load for performance), without using an intermediate asset exchange format. Performance edits (depends on performance at higher resolution). Thanks FFmpeg!).

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

However, I like my tutorials to be beginner friendly even when it covers slightly advanced topics. It provides a set of instructions that enable different systems to communicate with one another, specifying the methods for sending and receiving data, as well as the actions that can be performed. Thank you for reading this post.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

To maintain its current performance and grow, Snap needs a higher revenue per download, which likely requires reinforcing monetization. This has made core CCG fans passionately receive it as a refreshing experience, although retaining them for a long time may put a lot of pressure on the flow of new content. Source: Data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. The strong golden cohort effect hints at a high interest from the core audience and a good early LTV curve. Not just filling gaps and tweaking.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

has an almost entirely new core as well as several top notch brand new features. Our built-in docs are more complete and of much better quality than ever, and our online docs now cover many new topics in depth (such as 3D features). The result of this work was overwhelmingly positive. Most non-official tutorials online are for the 2.1

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