iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

PlayStation game testing is a critical quality assurance (QA) process. It involves testing PlayStation games to ensure they function as intended and deliver a positive user experience. Join us as we explore some insider tips from iXie that will help you thoroughly test your PlayStation game.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Manzano endured the rough times though and managed to finish the game and release it on Steam. The only problem with working alone in video games is that the level of work is multiplied by 10,000 compared to other things I have done before.” After some tests, some worked and others didn’t.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When it comes to female game developers, it’s not only about the quality of their work but also about the environment they work in. Reflecting on her experience as a mentor, she shared, “I played games a lot as a child, but 2013 is when I realized I wanted to be in the video games industry. We did 16 one-hour sessions.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Kucheza family Bukola’s childhood was filled with a lot more physical playing than video games. She recalls playing table tennis and tabletop games such as Ludo, Chess, Draft and Monopoly. Her favourite game then was 2D side-scrolling space shooter Gradius, which she enjoyed playing on the Nintendo.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 20, 2020

I encourage you to read these three articles that so you know where I started too! Turning Your Ideas into Reality (By Starting Badly). That’s true whether you’re making a board game or book, recording a video or podcast, starting a new job, entering into a new relationship, buying a new home… You get the idea.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I’ve started the final 100 play-tests. The final 100 play-tests start once I feel a game is basically where I want it to be. I start the final 100 play-tests after I’ve done a substantial amount of blind play-testing. Click here. On average, the game is average.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Never stop learning for when we stop learning we stop growing and this motto has stood Sankar Pandiyaraj, Test Lead at iXie , in good stead throughout the course of his life. Like all gamers, Sankar’s love for gaming started at an early age with Mario, Super Mario and City Racer.

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iXie gaming

JULY 2, 2023

All Gamers dream of a world where they can just play their favorite game, all day every day, but very few get the chance to make those dreams a reality. Like all gamers, Gururaj’s passion for gaming started at an early age, when he played old traditional board games with his friends.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

It’s likely you’ve seen these playable ads on social media or mobile news feeds - they often resemble mini-games or animations that users can play around with or view. When integrated with traditional marketing foundations like storytelling and retargeting, they hold even more data-rich potential for brand interaction and recall.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Play-testing is the most important part of board game design. It’s how you turn rough, raw ideas into polished, ready-to-play games. Play-testing is a labor of love, and sometimes it’s hard to even find play-testers in the first place! Things to Remember Before You Find Play-Testers.

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Game Errors

MARCH 17, 2023

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter with an amazing concept, time moves only when you move. In most cases, “not working” indicates that the game is not starting up properly or is not operating as intended. “I seem to be getting regular crashes at certain levels – mostly when I throw a katana.

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Real Programming

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s the start of another New Year, a time when people traditionally make promises or resolutions to improve in some fundamental way. Some resolutions are more philosophical, as when people commit to being a better friend to those in their inner circle. Many resolve to better their health by dieting or going to a gym.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This success has led him to start the creation of a series of animated shorts to meet the growing demand from his social media followers. Let’s travel back in time with Mwangi, and explore what made him a TikTok sensation resulting in a massive fan base just a year into his video game industry debut.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

It can be found at different times, or we might never find it no matter how long we search. In Naveen’s case he found it when he was just a kid, playing on his game boy and consoles. But as a game tester, you can play different genres of games and give your input which can be used to improve the overall specs of the game.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Cogmind’s “ special modes ,” timed events with unique mechanics, can in one sense be seen as the experimental test beds of Cogmind. A confluence of factors have contributed to now being the time it’s finally ready to be designed in. I’m sure it can save your butt, or enable some sneaky tactics.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. Yet I’ve never seen article that deals with one of the biggest issues with play-testing: being able to tell the difference between signal and noise. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Analyzing key data points throughout gameplay, the ‘Win Probability’ stat is designed to educate and inform fans as to how teams have fared when in similar competitive scenarios. The first test of the ‘Win Probability’ stat was during the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI 2023) in May. Why introduce ‘Win Probability’ to LoL Esports ?

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 30, 2023

He’s been on both sides of the table when it comes to developer/publisher negotiations and therefore has a clear view of the pitfalls in publishing agreements. Nowadays I think especially for indie games the starting point should be that you own the IP, so make sure that is clear in the contract.”

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Also, they boast advanced capabilities, making them more complex to test. Manually testing such games can be time-consuming, delaying their release to the market. And that’s where video game test automation comes in handy. It allows you to automate various testing aspects, accelerating the process. Let’s find out.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Creating board games takes an enormous amount of time and effort. When it comes to delegation, it helps to define some roles. When it comes to delegation, it helps to define some roles. Let’s start with three roles: board game designer, developer, and publisher. They commission art, proofread, and play-test.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 27, 2023

Therefore, before developing the game's final version, you must test a prototype. It enables game app developers to fine-tune their ideas, find possible issues and test gameplay mechanics before the game is built. It enables them to avoid wasting money and time on building features that are either ineffective or unattractive.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

This wasn't their first time working with Lurkit. This player base is picky about their games and would only play them if a recommendation came from someone they trust. “It’s impressive how Lurkit can deviate from the roadmap to consider other opportunities. “But how do you satisfy the needs of all players?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I was always washed up in cascade of (admittedly pretty valid) excuses about time and cost. I figured now was a good time to give it a shot. Some people attend as designers and some people attend as play-testers. It’s the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Need help on your board game?

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AWS Games

MARCH 28, 2024

Block and avoid lists are a way to ensure that your players don’t have to interact or play with players that they don’t want to. Use the Amazon GameLift console to build from samples or start from scratch. Player attributes are declared when designing a rule set and require a unique name and data type.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. “We didn’t know each other, we just all got a call from a bigger studio that told us we could use some of their spare space to develop video games.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Expertise Unreal Engine is the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. Pre-production This is the primary stage when the game is planned. Production 1.

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AWS Games

MARCH 28, 2024

Block and avoid lists are a way to ensure that your players don’t have to interact or play with players that they don’t want to. Use the Amazon GameLift console to build from samples or start from scratch. Player attributes are declared when designing a rule set and require a unique name and data type.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 29, 2022

To shed some light on the most recent best practices, I had the privilege of talking to Annelie Biernat (Game Director at Wooga) and Aaron Hiscox (Business Development Manager at Google Play). In our conversation below, we discuss key learnings from her experience and compare them to wider best practices observed by the Google Play team.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Well, it implies that cross-platform compatibility testing is more critical than ever.  Cross-platform compatibility testing ensures your game delivers a seamless and consistent experience across all platforms and devices. But before that, let’s start with some basics. What is Cross-Platform Compatibility Testing?

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This time we’ll be splitting things up a little different than the original lesson, and I wanted to extend a couple things a little bit. The other is that the Axis components in the input manager are split up as one Axis each for positive and negative, and when we check the axis in code, we call a function with the two as parameters.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A game economy design will differ from one game to another, but the core principle remains the same: it encourages users to play more by earning resources (like energy, gems, and in-game currency) and incurring losses, creating a loop of endless gameplay. On the other hand, the “coins” earned from completing tasks are a currency.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

When the team first decided to make a sim management style game, they quickly settled on a city building sim. “We With the genre and setting firmly in place the ideas started flowing. “We We also revamped the game resources and time systems and transformed the lengthy campaign into a segmented storyline.” That gave us the idea!”

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Half Geek

AUGUST 3, 2022

Star Nomad 2 was released in 2016 on Google Play & iOS. Your old device CPU, GPU & RAM are quite capable, but it just slows down over time as you update the software. When it works, there could be other game breaking bugs, so the developers have to basically discard gamers who have not upgraded to recent hardware.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 10, 2024

Are you now getting started? A conversation on social media sparked this idea, I thought it would be interesting for the Retro Game Coders community to share how you got into programming and your journey from starting out to what you do now? The main thing for me was the school got a BBC and I got to spend a little time on it.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Development Time As of the latest tally I’ve reached a total of 16,785 hours of work in these 10 years. Sure even now I still spend lots of time engaged directly with the active player community (which has other benefits for development like feedback!), Numbers go up. The dip below 1.0

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 30, 2017

Common situations include: Waiting on the manufacturer to print a sample run of your game so you can complete product testing or send copies to reviewers. Yet it’s important to accept its inevitability and have a mindset that allows you to make the best use of your time. So what does one do with all this extra time?

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If you need a completely new custom character model, that takes time from a character artist and a texture artist. needs its own rig), that's time from a rigger to create. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene.

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