Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Designing the latter was the easier task as family opinions could simply affect cities and units if they each had a specific family type. Thus, each new city would be assigned a family, and units produced by that city would also be attached to that family. The trickier question is what should determine family opinion.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

Disclaimer: Sudden rushes of anger from receiving a bad score from All Games is unchanged but the feeling of elation from receiving amazing scores is increased by several measurable units of excitement! We felt that the un-modded game lacked a few core topics that prevented players from re-making their favorite game in Game Dev Tycoon.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You have lots of units but you don’t control them individually. We created an Excel sheet with about 400 topics that were mentioned in the feedback by the players. The game is self explanatory. You don’t really have to learn much to play. It’s not about how fast you can click your mouse.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Our effort to solve this problem is to add more robust CI processes to the workflow, you may notice that we already have a bunch of CI workflows like coding style check, compilation and build check, unit test etc.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Usually, when any of the reasons mentioned below exist, you will encounter the crashing problem on this game: Problem with the graphics card: Whether it is physical or just the driver, if there is a problem related to the graphics processing unit, Sons of the Forest or any other games may crash.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Politicians in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere have long raised doubts about games, sometimes due to valid worries about their potential ill effects, and sometimes for political capital. It remains an open topic, with multiple conflicting findings.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This mobile version of chess is most popular in the United States, which generates 37% of downloads, followed by the United Kingdom (8%), Russia (6%), France (6%) and Germany (5%). In terms of monetization, Chess is free to download and generates most of its revenue through paid subscription plans.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Additionally, while doing my research on this topic, I’ve discovered that there are a few other commonly encountered causes for this issue, such as: Insufficient Hardware : If your computer doesn’t meet the game’s minimum hardware requirements, especially the GPU and CPU, it will struggle to maintain a good FPS.

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Bringing servers closer to players Another key topic going into GDC is the importance of ultra-low latency for gaming experiences. GDC provides an ideal forum to engage with the community and partners to discuss how we can continue to innovate and address these challenges.

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Game Dev Unchained

MARCH 7, 2022

This comes as no surprise as the value of digital ownership was something of a hot topic this whole past year. He was able to describe himself as being a long time crypto fan but didn’t really see the value in NFTS just yet. Naturally, blockchain and anything NFT- related and its worth were openly discussed across the event.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

This is done by creating a game based on scenic road travel within the United States… The board will essentially be a road map of the United States. Accessibility is a loaded topic, so you can read more about it here , here , and here. In short, summarize the art style and provide examples.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, I strongly suggest listening to the podcast to hear the entire conversation between Mishka and Jordan as they cover a wider array of topics. The Power of Company Culture in Hiring: Insights from Jordan Mishka brings up the important topic of culture - what exactly does culture mean in the context of hiring, and why is it so crucial?

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DameDev.tv

JULY 12, 2023

Tokenization , also known as lexical analysis or lexing , is the process of breaking down a sequence of characters or code into smaller units called tokens. There are numerous resources that covers this topic much better than I would, like videos by William Fisset. Let's consider an expression like (2.6+4)*8. A binary tree.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 6, 2022

Earth has united with Titan under one governmental organization after the events from last season, but their newfound peace has not dulled the Terran paranoia a bit. Trek as a franchise has a long, long history of using metaphor to explore not only current events but difficult moral topics. The usual suspects make the usual arguments.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Upgrades are now mainly cosmetic , and they increase a Collector Level that unlocks units and rewards (in a way similar to Marvel Snap ), including additional skills for the Heroes. There is also a new gacha box system (Toy Machine) to acquire lootbox-exclusive units and cosmetics.

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Game Biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mobile Game Monetization in 2022: Navigating the eCPM Decline In the last six months, we’ve shared two posts on the eCPM trend due to the interest our clients and other developers have shown in the topic. United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, and Mexico. United Kingdom -17.8% -46.8% -4.5% -30.1%

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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. This post was originally published on the Developer Zone. Depth precision is a pain that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The topic of why Godot does not utilize ECS comes up often, so this article will explain the design decisions behind that, as well as shed some light on how Godot works. Some strategy games (while not the majority, some can use thousands or dozen of thousands of game units at the same time).

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

So, we don’t know if Fortnite can hold its position in the United States of America in the upcoming years or not. Source: Exploding Topics Number of tournaments and prize pools for Apex Legends and Fortnite Each year, gamers attend tournaments for both Apex Legends and Fortnite. of Fortnite players are young. In Fortnite, 72.4%

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Short: CPU has just a few big calculation units (cores) that work very well sequential but not parallel while GPU has thousands of small cores that run well parallel but not sequential. The topics will be the creation of creative content and how coincidence can help to get fresh ideas. Even when running on older hardware.  

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Merge gameplay usually involves merging two or more units into something more powerful. This means that Omega Royale will have a lot more unit variety than previous TD games. “There’s a lot of negativity around those kinds of topics, and a lot of emotion around words like NFT and Blockchain and Web3.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The gameplay resembles Legend of Solgard and Might & Magic: Clash Heroes (Nintendo DS): The objective of each level is to defeat enemy units located on the top of the screen.The bottom part of the board is filled with friendly troops that players can tap like in a blast game. They were additional layers of things to collect and upgrade.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Metrics reacted well to their holiday season update, which introduced new units and quests; but the boost lasted just a few days. One of the main problems in Clash Mini is the strong similarity with Clash Royale , the other Supercell auto battler whose gameplay and unit mechanics are very similar.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 13, 2022

Instead, it’s clear that the game was always about birds, and that the designer and artists took their time to research the topic and consider how aspects of the setting could be turned into mechanics (it’s a pleasure see how owls, buzzards, turkeys, and so on are each turned into a single rule). This is potentially game-changing huge.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Introduction Have you ever been sitting in a meeting – or listening to a podcast, perhaps – where the merits of a game were being discussed and the topic of “Game of the Year” was raised? In our anecdotal experience, the game has been a polarizing topic among industry insiders. Award for Mobile Game of the Year (Feb.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work.

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Filmustage

MAY 6, 2023

Additionally, international schools like the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the United Kingdom and La Fémis in France also provide highly regarded film education programs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

This forces players to rethink their previous strategy, and rotates the decks and units dominating the meta. Gizmos is a new gameplay mechanic that consists of static units with powerful unique effects. Originally it looked quite rough, but now it’s beautiful. Revamped Hero & Mini upgrade systems.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

Meeple Like Us is a series of ongoing notations regarding my work on that topic. Looking at the United Kingdom, the statistics are telling. In real life, I’m a lecturer at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen , with a particular interest in the accessibility of games. Around one child in twenty is affected.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. During this relatively long period (we could split this period into another 2~3 phases to be more specific, but we are not covering this topic here), the experience of paying players will be better. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. If those topics sound interesting, you might like to read about it here. Pathfinding System When you hear the topic of pathfinding, you might expect to see the A* (pronounced "A-Star") algorithm.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We’re going to learn a lot of stuff as we go along and as we make this, and we’ll dissect a lot of design topics as we go along to help you become the best game designer that you can be. 00:52) Now if you don’t know what a pixel is, it is the smallest unit of measurement on a screen. So it’s going to be fun.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

Actor Module New let’s talk about the most concerned topics: Player Control , Monster Spawning , and Pickable Item Generation. But before discussing these topics, let’s first take a look at the Actor module. If you want to process quickly, you can fill in all 0. By this point, the introduction to the Game module is over.

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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. Raster Operations Units - ROPs : This hardware unit is mainly responsible for writing pixel values into render targets (depth operating, stencil operating, alpha bending, etc.)

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Beta 11 is finally tackling this project, and we’ve already seen it manifested across propulsion , weapon mechanics , storage units , fabrication and more, but the comprehensive item-by-item review has only come to pass as part of the conclusion to this dev cycle. the low-mass storage unit with huge inventory space.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Snap ’s design mixes components from games like AIR, LAND & SEA, GWENT (score-based victory condition, multiple lanes, mindgames), Marvel Smash Up (unit design), Texas Hold’em (progressive reveal of key shared components, betting), and Hearthstone (usage of digital-only mechanics). The new currency partially solves the topic of sharding.

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