PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“As I travel across Africa creating games, there’s something everyone seems to agree on…” says Bethlehem Anteneh , a trained architect, co-founder of SOSTLab and the moderator of the She Got Game panel at Africa Games Week (AGW). Think of a bar where 90% of the people are men. We did 16 one-hour sessions.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

UI/UX Artist - 1. The UI/UX must be designed in such a way that players can be absorbed in the game without feeling stressed. Complete Project Details. Game Genre. App Platform. iOS and Android. Time Duration of Project. Our Team on Project. Project Manager - 1. Quality Analyst - 1. Tester - 1. About Kushtena.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. In this blog, we will explain game mechanics, their benefits, and the crucial role of a game designer in utilizing these mechanics to craft captivating games.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

They provide comprehensive art outsourcing services, which include character/environment art, level design, in-game animations, 3D modeling, 2D concept art, and more. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Secondly, look up profiles on independent data-driven websites. One such site is clutch.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There's usually some number of each specific discipline that will get stays of execution - server engineer, UI/UX designer, tech artist, QA, and so on. Keepers are the ones who know all of the innermost workings of the projects that are slated to continue. The keepers are automatically safe from the reaper.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

and is developed based on our in-house open-source Graph component from the Web UI library. This plugin relies on Cocos Creator version 3.8.2 To promote collaboration and innovation within the developer community, we have open-sourced the full set of source code for this plugin under the MIT license. Open Cocos Creator 3.8.2

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For a mobile game to be engaging and interesting, it should be designed in a certain pattern so that it has all the aspects incorporated in it. Appealing UX/UI of A Game. Most of the unsuccessful games in the market lack good game design. And a good ranking in the App/Play store was considered the success of the app.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

These games are designed for simple gameplay, with no prerequisites and a wide range of difficulty levels, which means that they’re accessible to a much wider audience than most traditional games. Games are more than just a diversion. However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. What is a Game Art Studio?

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Creative Director - Design lead. All designers and content creators answer to him. His job is initially to work with the executive producer come up with core designs and ideas that will drive the gameplay, then gradually shift to managing the design team as they join up and keep them all tasked out and productive.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

UI, UX Artist - 1. To design multiplayer games with many difficulty levels where little ones can enjoy competing with their classmates, friends or anyone else in the world. Our game designer team spent time refining the animation of the characters in order to bring them to life. App Platform. iOS, Android, and Web.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amazing UX/UI. Make the UX/UI understandable for the users. . There are few games in the market that has failed to succeed because of various different reasons, like: Lack of innovative and creative appeal . Interesting monetization strategies. Poor user accession. Confusing or complicated gameplay . Audio Quality.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

First one is Unpubs/Design Cons. Emelie: I would guess Unpubs are good to test ideas and tweak designs. Some are gigantic like Gen Con, Essen, and UKGE. Others are close-knit and local, but still lots of fun. They are wonderful gathering places for board gamers. Need help on your board game? You can buy it here now. Parting Advice.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

March 2024 events and dates TBC DevGAMM Gdansk 1st – 2nd |Gdansk, Poland DevGAMM conference is aimed at developers, publishers, game designers, programmers, artists, business development managers, recruiters, journalists and everyone involved in the game industry in any way. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

That world is an advanced town on the moon designed on hard science and engineering. Our architecture is also being designed to be a platform for game devs looking for a great place to test, experiment, showcase, or browse other developers' ideas. Our three lovely devs can explain - Karim, Yael, and Zach. Sounds great, let's try ECS!

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Integration is the process of incorporating translated game content, modifying the code to add the translated content to the game, and adjusting the UI/UX to ensure that it appears correctly. There are nearly 8 billion people in the world, and you need to get as many of them as possible to play your game. Proofreading.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Access all of our previous predictions. Signup for the newsletter. Apply for our Slack group. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. All revenue numbers show net revenues. compared to $827M in 2019.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. Sign up for their newsletter to be informed when the latest deconstruction drops. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Create an account 2. Apply today !

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Prior to this I’ve always framed the zooming discussion as a full-UI thing, where not just the map but everything needs to be larger, which is kind of a show-stopper when there is a minimum number of text elements required to be visible at all times for proper play as designed. It must be done. Something in between 1.0x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

We have taken inspiration from the diff UI currently present in Atom, Visual Studio Code and various other popular text editors and IDEs. In 2018 we had 5 students working on various features for Godot Engine, and you can read about their work in last year's progress report. Interactive Music by Daniel Matarov. Final (PR candidate): [link].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Branches: Vitika9/gsoc-colorpicker , Vitika9/gsoc-colorpicker-ux. UX updates.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Note this article refers to design of a game itself, rather than the complete gamedev process , which is a pretty different topic altogether. (I I sorta covered high-level process before, albeit more in a technical sense than a philosophical one, in an early article on Cogmind’s alpha release cycle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Designers and UI specialists keep redoing the user flow when they should be referencing a successful competitor. Deconstructor of Fun's Weekly Newsletter All the insights, news, and updates weekly in your inbox. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. The Editor’s Note We can all agree that awesome ideas come from awesome teams.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 release, many contributors and users want a robust and mature 3.x x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. is compatible with Godot 3.2.x x and is a recommended upgrade for all 3.2.x

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called. Or maybe it wouldn't?

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Windows 8 was all about tablets and touch-screens so our designs – intended for phones – no longer cut it. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history. Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. You can find all of our 2020 predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. Also supported by insights from Lloyd Melnick. To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. Let’s dive in!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Port connection swapping was also added as a minor UX improvement. Then there are in-graph editable nodes , which provide a simple yet powerful UX improvement to the Visual Script. We also encouraged them to share words on their personal experience as GSoC students working with the Godot community. Work done.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In live ops, these review processes are well-defined: systems and economy design, merchandising, UX, data analysis, and sprint planning for features that drive KPI improvements, better player segmentation, and improved UA funnels are the foundation of F2P mobile product success. This is a guest post by Andrew N.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

A lot has been written, and there has been a lot of discussion about, the potential for a huge new gaming and virtual world paradigm which many are calling the Metaverse. However, very little has been written or yet discussed about how such a platform needs to work. You see, Tim Sweeney is a conservationist.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Given this product design stagnancy, one could say that the sub-genre is primed for innovation. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content Ad revenues not included. Coin Master - A Massive Disruptor?

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