Game Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Two new research surveys were released this week, helping us to understand the ever-shifting nature of game consumers, their habits and their preferences across demographic sectors. Parents of teens are 46% more likely to play games with their kids. The top five games parents play with their kids are either wholesome, or creative.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Competition is fierce in the mobile game market, but even more so for developers of casual and hyper-casual games. So, what can mobile game developers do to increase the chances of their games performing well? So, what can mobile game developers do to increase the chances of their games performing well?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Despite the release of numerous highly anticipated games last year, the game industry as a whole struggled to achieve significant growth. By understanding these complexities, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics shaping the contemporary gaming landscape and explore potential pathways for future growth and development.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. Paid membership also removes in-game ads for a more seamless experience. So, what’s to blame?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Former Disney and NBCU Execituve Talk the Death of the Games-as-App Before going deeper, let us define the terms: Hypercasual games are the bubble gum of the gaming industry.

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Game Global

JUNE 13, 2021

Long before physical instructional manuals were replaced in favor of in-game tutorials and storytelling, there was the overlay. The overlay; an almost forgotten accessory that used to be included with many games for second-generation video game consoles (1976 to 1992) like the Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Colecovision, and Vectrex.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) I keep saying this blog is free.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Roblox CEO David “Dave” Baszucki is big on people interacting in visual social environments – most especially playful places like the game platform he runs. Game companies have reacted variously to the challenge of remote work. He even thinks dating is going to be a thing on Roblox. It’ll be very safe.

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Game Design Aspect

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I did in fact win a 2020 Women in Games Hall of Fame Award. For SXSW, we have panels about emergent narrative , immersive story worlds, and designing games for social change. Vote here for this panel : [link] How Not to F**k Up Games For Social Change Can life really be gamified for the better?

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 9, 2023

As the gaming world evolves, testing has become more complex. In fact, manually testing modern games can be time-consuming, delaying the release cycle. These games have high-quality visuals, animations, and sounds, which renders 100% manual testing infeasible. This makes it easier to identify errors or bugs in your game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. What makes these strange hybrid “casino battler” games tick? And this isn’t a one-off anomaly. How To Play?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. The core gameplay in Gossip Harbor.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And this bold statement is not (only) marketing speak, the winner of GitHub Game Off 2017 was indeed a Godot-made game by Securas, Daemon vs Demon. The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. Check the details on itch.io: Game Off 2018.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The video game sector has experienced significant growth in recent times. As more games emerge, new genres have been born to keep players more engaged. One of the latest introductions in the gaming world is hybrid-casual games, which combine elements of mid-core and hyper-casual games. The Solution?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. As an example, collaboration events are used by more than 70% of the top 10% of highest-grossing games in the China iOS market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Is it the artwork in itself that is not selling the game? Exit mobile.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

This hardware does not posses enough video memory to run a modern game engine, anyway. will be a hybrid. Still, if you are making a high-end mobile game, keep in mind that we will support a mobile optimized version of the Vulkan renderer. launches). To put it simply: In Godot 3.x The GLES3 implementation in Godot 4.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

AppMagic has released a new quarterly report with an overview of the most successful hypercasual games on the market right now. Top 10 Games By Downloads Now, it’s time for a deep dive into the top 10 hypercasual games by downloads. The game features different modes and progressively more challenging levels.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2020

This post wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Tatyana Bogatyreva , Head of UA at Gram Games, Nebojsa Radovic , Growth Lead at N3TWORK and Yevgeny Peres , VP of Growth at ironSource. In addition to advertisers implementing and testing early game events they will have to make sure to have control of the events from the server side.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifically, video production and game development require efficient workflows that involve multiple departments and span different time zones. Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important.

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Retro Game Coders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Agon Light is a single-board computer based around a Z80 CPU, along with an ESP32 for audio, video, and IO. It is also capable of running in a hybrid mode with a mixture of 24-bit and 8-bit code. A second CPU is on board, and that is dedicated to handling video, sound, and keyboard IO.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In order to monetize your board game idea successfully, you must first understand what your gamers expect from your games and how much they are willing to spend. What is game monetization? Game monetization is the process of making money from games. To generate revenue through the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. You can find edited highlights of each talk below, and videos of each session – just hit play to start watching. Shooters got creamed”, too, he said – down 33%.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We are excited to announce the general availability of GameLift Anywhere, a new Amazon GameLift feature that decouples game session management from underlying compute resources. With this release, Amazon GameLift can now deploy and manage dedicated game servers hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or through hybrid configurations.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category. The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5%

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Martial arts one-on-one fighting games have been a staple for consoles and arcades dating back to the 1980s. While there were games like Karate Champ that helped popularize the genre, it was Street Fighter in 1987 that really set the tone for what would come for Martial Arts games over the following three decades.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Blog Authors: David Holladay - AWS Game Tech Head of PMM & Ryan Greene - AWS Game Tech Sr. Announced today, AWS for Games adds eight new services and solutions for game developers. Amazon GameLift now enables customers to manage game servers hosted in the cloud or on-premises. Highlights. Highlights.

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Game Daily

JULY 14, 2023

Each year, the Entertainment Software Association releases a raft of stats about video game consumption in the United States, that speaks to the growing popularity and positivity of gaming. After all, the ESA is tasked with representing the political and collective public-facing interests of game companies.

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

Furthermore, SFX and VFX are not limited to filmmaking—they are also leveraged in marketing, gaming, theme parks, entertainment centers, and more such applications. Selection of programs offered include: Advertising Animation and Visual Effects Game Development Graphic Design Motion Pictures and Television 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Instead we predicted an evolution of these games on two levels - Hypercasual meta systems will deepen to drive stronger medium term retention Hypercasual monetisation would ‘hybridise’ to rely on both Ads and IAPs Fast forward 10 months, hypercasual downloads are at an all-time high - as you’ll see in the data ahead. So, let’s go deeper. #2:

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. The game experienced a 31% drop sinking to the whole sub-genre with it.

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

Introduction Document database is one of the fastest growing categories of nonrelational database that makes it easier for game developers to store and query data as JSON-like documents. DMM GAMES uses Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to store user data, friend data and battle data for two of our popular game titles.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Creating video games is a complex process, requiring diverse teams to collaborate across various aspects of a project. With recent world events, development environments are increasingly hybrid. Caching is essential in the development of large, immersive games to ensure efficient asset retrieval and performance optimization.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It is a typical midrange configuration for a gaming machine nowadays. This is naturally expected, especially when compared to other games using many ray tracing effects at once. For instance, for game scenarios with ray traced shadows and ray traced ambient occlusion only, an NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super could be an acceptable solution.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul! Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies.

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