The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Behind that is the tacky fantasy castle. Behind that, as you would expect, is the New York City skyline. You are now allowed to go there. Las Vegas has one awesome selling point in this age of quarantine: It is not inside your house. Everything that hasn’t reopened will reopen soon.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. The motivations data for The Ants indicates that the game puts slightly more emphasis on the social elements than the average 4X game.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 9, 2024

Then I can sell my games to them eventually, much as a catfish eats the scum at the bottom of a lake. It's also a great opportunity to pick apart a good game's design. If a game sells well, that means every choice it made was correct, and you should pick over the carcass for ideas to steal with all speed. 5E for short.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Also, make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content I have been in the games industry since 1993 and in that time there have only been two new models, try-before-you-buy and free-to-play. First came the try-before-you-buy then a decade later free-to-play. Please make sure to bookmark Lloyd’s fantastic blog.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That frees me up to spend a few posts pointing out teachable moments in God of War Ragnarok. Places where things went wrong, so others can learn from it. But in a, you know, Norse way. However, if you did play this game and find it was unsatisfying and you can’t quite articulate why, maybe I can help.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

When you get stuck on a boss, you can summon naked weirdos to kill it for you. Really, how hard a game can it be? I just can’t sit back while everyone else grabs all the good Hot Takes. My Scorching Hot, Muy Caliente Take: It’s good. I had to do it this way.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Need help on your board game? This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. How do you test your rules?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Need help on your board game? This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. so I’ve time off of work.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We know it's been a miiinute since we've shared some in-depth development updates from Kristala with you, but we're SUPER STOKED for you to see everything we've been working on since the last time we met. If this is your first time joining us, thanks for stopping by to our little corner of the interwebz! HELLO, FRIENDS!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

You can find edited highlights of each talk below, and videos of each session – just hit play to start watching. Kress said that the current’s market’s woes were “all Apple’s fault”. “We as particularly notable through its hypercasual-style play that adds in more depth over time. They care about themselves,” he said.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Yet, once I overcame the initial hurdle, what I found was something with a promising meta that set it apart from its competitors and consequently kept me hooked. It does a good job at solving the issues many of these games have, which is the One Deck Problem by forcing you to have multiple decks fully upgraded to finish the campaign.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The reviews and player reaction haven't been positive, but as an Arkane fan I felt compelled to play it for myself and take it on its own merits. Overall I feel it's an OK game that's basically playable, despite the bugs and aggressive texture streaming and general unfinished feeling. But not really.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

I wasn't involved in creating Future Sight, but I was a big contributor in a major debate that had started in one of our Tuesday Magic meetings, where everyone involved in Magic gets together to discuss the current major issues. The discussion revolved around the new card type that we were going to be debuting soon: Planeswalkers.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I thought the writing was good (great, for a videogame) but the actual combat I found to be very annoying; real time button mashy combat where the enemies have gigantic health bars resulted in my hand literally aching after beating one boss. It just wasn’t that interesting to me overall.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. Perfect for pretending to have played Deathloop if you find yourself talking to a game dev. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet, once I overcame the initial hurdle, what I found was something with a promising meta that sets it apart from its competitors and consequently kept me hooked. Written by Christopher Brousseau. A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focussed on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! 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. This deconstruction is done by our friends at Naavik.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Innovation can come in many different flavors. I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A few weeks ago, the Clash Quest team announced that they were going to discontinue the development , after a soft launch of 16 months. A cancellation shouldn’t be too surprising, since Supercell has never been shy about its philosophy of ruthlessly killing games that fall behind their billion-dollar hit expectations.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The same studio that is responsible for t he biggest MOBA in the World, Honor of Kings. Yet they are not that difficult to get greenlight because of the multi-billion-Dollar success of the Honour of Kings and League of Legends (PC). As you can see, 62% of all revenue comes from China. Even League of Legends: Wild Rift.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

To end any confusion: The guy you play is called Zelda. That’s why it’s called The Legend of ZELDA. I think one of the big problems with game criticism now is that it's so rushed. Another big problem with game criticism is that, "Who cares? Don't you have real problems?" Don't you have real problems?"

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Thoughts and opinions shared in this analysis are strictly his own and do not represent those of his past or present employers. In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 19, 2019

“It must be great to be your own boss!” You know the sort: “yes, it’s pretty great, I’m very fortunate! ” And, yes, indeed, I really am very fortunate. Need help on your board game? You can never really be your own boss.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

What’s driving this trend is looking at the changes that are happening in the Top Grossing charts. What’s driving this trend is looking at the changes that are happening in the Top Grossing charts. A push that is very likely to continue… data from the one and only - GameRefinery. Lilith is a company you may be familiar with.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. I wanted to try to merge these design sensibilities with my first person gay sex aesthetic, paired with the old tradition of retro grid-based first person CRPGs like Wizardry / Ultima Underworld / Legend of Grimrock where you crawl through dungeons step by step.

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