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. Leaving components aside, Godot has no differentiation between Data and System, choosing to bundle everything together in a more traditional OOP fashion. Optimization.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

When discussing the decline of the business, Ilkka mentions three topics: Firstly, it’s the end of the lockdown-induced hyper-growth. In a typical Supercell fashion, they did it with no fanfare, which resulted in even more interest because of the limited context around their plans.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 9, 2024

This will all be a bit disjointed with lots of small individual topics. And hating on D&D is very much the fashion of late. I want to spend a post or three picking apart the game system, pulling out specific structures and ideas, and looking at them in the light. But it's worth it, because this is a very interesting game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Unrelated to the pandemic, Apple proposed a change to IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers), which was also a hot topic across mobile gaming. A question that could very well lead us to a place where specialists are increasingly more likely to become guns-for-hire than exist as a part of a digital tribe.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 26, 2023

This particular topic can be a real rabbit hole, but let’s try to keep it to the basics for today. Rewards must arrive in a timely fashion A good leveling system must take timing into account. At its core, a leveling system is a series of goals and rewards for the player.

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Filmustage

MARCH 18, 2022

Simona has been working on entertainment and fashion products for 10 years. However, that does not make it any less interesting - on the contrary, it is not only very informative, but also highly topical, so we did not want to spoil everything for you. Here are just some of the images from his incredibly informative presentation.

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With RPN, there's no need for parentheses, and we don't have to worry about the order of operations since it can be evaluated in a linear fashion, from left to right For example, the infix expression (1 * 2) - (3 * 4) would become 1 2 * 3 4 * + in RPN.

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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. Different fashions are launched for players to collect.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

By comparison, in true Angband fashion the distant Angband descendant ToME 4 fully embraces randomized items and has quite the pool of possibilities. Perhaps one of the more unique aspects of ADOM here is that the degree of possible enchantments, among other properties, is tied to the material the item is composed of.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

See our previous announcement for a quick presentation of each topic. Loading the MIDI files happens in a similar fashion to SoundFonts. We have five students working on some great projects to add new features to the engine, either via C++ modules, GDNative plugins or external plugins.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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). also comes with a brand new visual scripting language (originally named VisualScript), in the typical "boxes and connections" fashion. Visual Scripting.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2021

According to Sky Mavis’ last update on the topic, DAUs are slightly north of 2M. This means the current player base is increasingly moving around a stabilizing pool of Axies, and in turn not sinking their SLP in a healthy fashion. While the daily count of Axies is dropping, the daily Axie transfers continue to rise.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Lau, was apparently such a fan of the game (among millions of others) that Supercell’s CEO, Ilkka Panaanen, reported: Mr. Lau (CEO of Tencent) had just dropped out from Clash Royale’s global top-100 players leaderboard, and it was almost impossible to get his focus back to the topics we had to discuss.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The issue of “infinite city spam” seems to be a constant topic in Civ discussions. In contrast, “fake” emotional AIs (no magical machine learning, just old-fashioned integer math) are quite useful. This seems like exactly the kind of thing you would need to manage with AI opponents.

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