Game Dev Unchained

MARCH 7, 2022

These were on top of all attendees’ minds and this year had a mixture of support and pushback from developers and players alike. This comes as no surprise as the value of digital ownership was something of a hot topic this whole past year. Even expensive players would be desirable.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Although I already demonstrated much of the first new modal UI layout in an earlier forum announcement , I figure I could review those features here in order to provide closure to this series, plus cover some related dev topics as well as the second modal layout. The line count and duration can be controlled via advanced.cfg options.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Finally, Clash Mini is going through by far the longest Supercell soft launch, with more than 2 years and counting. The update has been received with mixed reactions in social networks , with players praising the gameplay additions and big amount of new playable content, but disliking the strong focus on loot boxes. It was not.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

The onboarding period is the delicate phase where the player’s relationship to the monetization mechanics of the game is often decided – for better or worse. In this last part, we will dive into new player monetization. Introducing monetization mechanics through free samples.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. We could cover a whole series of articles just on the topic of proper and productive play-testing. This is to make sure that all players could clearly see the information on the cards. Dylan: We had to get text sizing right.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Recently, the Snap team has announced the introduction of the Collector Tokens, a new currency primarily obtained in the Collection Level that will allow players to directly purchase cards in a rotative shop. Nevertheless, Snap's biggest opportunity is reaching broader audiences than just core CCG players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

This new switcher star feels fast and fair while also giving players more agency. Nothing that Royal Match does is new - most switchers build upon each other - but the execution creates a better player experience than that of rivals’. Items are hidden on the board and the player must match over tiles to unearth them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That means players engage more as a job (often as “scholars” from developing countries who borrow in-game assets from richer “sponsors” or “managers,” who receive a cut of their earnings) than for fun. The value of new Axies and SLP is propped up by new players putting fresh money into the game.

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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. That has been personally gratifying of course – as an academic I’m used to the readership of my papers being counted on the fingers of a single head. A game need only be accessible for one group of players to contribute to that.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

It's originator gave the original game the clunky genre title FREE, standing for 'Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment', supposedly to show the interactivity and freedom the player would have. Well, interactivity maybe - you can indeed spend hours meaninglessly opening each compartment in every chest of drawers, for instance.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?” Let’s get started!

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This makes observers wonder if there’s any real player interest in this. Or if most of the money comes from the initial sales, and then it’s just players selling those assets to successive waves of folks that are attracted by the promise of getting rich. And it’s not uncommon to see some of these projects end up in a rug pull.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

So at the moment, it seems that it hasn’t been able to keep players engaged (and paying) for a long time. To be worth releasing, Clash Mini not only has to become as effective at building LTV as Clash Royale but also introduce innovative gameplay that is able to engage veteran players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Keep in mind that if in-app-add revenues are counted, Puzzle games would generate between 10 to 20 percent more. Within 2020, puzzle games experienced a 18% jump in revenue between Q1 and Q2, a jump larger than the Q1/Q2 increase of 2019 mostly due to more time playing games, not necessarily more players. It made $5.1

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

You can even delete triangles that are never visible by the player and delete vertices under certain layers. The polygon reduction object from Cinema4D does not reduce the polygon count effectively. The topics will be the creation of creative content and how coincidence can help to get fresh ideas.   What's next?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

No doubt this is a deeply discussed topic for a genre that still shows great returns. Securing the Casino Cash Cows It is well known that Casino players tend to play 3-5 casino games at the same time - usually slots. A cross-app affinity analysis indicating low overlap between Coin Master and traditional slots players.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

I'm sure others have written about the same topic, but this article is written from my own experience, in hopes of it being useful. This does not work in game programming, because you are more concerned about how the player feels than what he or she will do. I've seen this so many times I can't count it with my fingers.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

Clearly, the game could be done cheaper with hobbyists or people passionate enough about the genre to work for free or below cost, for back-end, or with a trust-fund baby on staff, but the goal in putting together this plan is to explore it as real business, and our business model is a little screwed if we count on people working for free.

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