Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games. A large part of Fidget Trading’s massive success was due to the popularity of the game concept and familiarity among TikTok users. Everyone remembers fidget toys, right?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

A game that really fell during 2022 losing nearly half of its revenues in the process. 5 Simulation Games (revenue -18%, downloads +16%) Roblox , which brought well over a billion Dollars in 2021, declined by 27% in 2022 while not losing downloads. Globally, time spent grew 25% from 2021 to 2022. Until next week. ?

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. You’d be forgiven for mistaking Stumble Guys for Fall Guys. In total, Stumble Guys raked in over 219 million downloads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s again taking a super simple addictive core game but actually pairing it with a simplified progression mechanic and some amount of live operations. And the progression mechanic result in in-app purchases. If you look at the top 30 new downloaded games in 2022, what you’ll find out is that none of them was a hypercasual game.

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Real Programming

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s dive into the changes in Ontario’s curriculum set for 2022 to see how students in grades 1-8 will embrace the STEM skills and foundational cognitive abilities that have always been at the heart of RP4K. Perhaps they can be chemical, mechanical, or civil engineers. Plus, we embed gamification concepts into the lessons themselves.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Gran Turisimo 7 , released in 2022, marked the 25th anniversary of the series’ beginning, and included implementation of Universal Scene Description (USD). Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Not much else is said about the death mechanic in the other game worlds of the series. I like the concept in theory. It is great for a story. Knockback.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments. CG Spectrum's 2022 Houdini FX student showcase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

The earliest would be 2022 and until then they’ll most likely scratch the puzzle itch through investment in studios who specialize in puzzle. Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. As is the whole Istanbul gaming ecosystem. source: Liquid & Grit.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. This concept grew organically from a single idea. What’s your creative process? “My If yes – how?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Vietnamese developer WolfFun breathed new life into its top-down MOBA Heroes Strike by relaunching it with blockchain-based play-to-earn mechanics. Keep in mind that the concept of “revenue made in the blockchain” is tricky. Thetan Arena (TA) is a fascinating experiment in the burgeoning blockchain space.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In fact, players downloaded hybrid-casual games over 5 billion times in 2022 alone. That’s where the concept of hybrid monetization comes in. Hybrid-casual games bring in more sophisticated graphics and characters, among other gaming mechanics, providing richer gameplay. These games are still new. Richer gameplay.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Stunt coordinator Katie Rowe (link to the IMDb profile ) shared with us how crucial the pre-production stage is and script breakdown in particular (you may also be interested in reading Top 7 Best film production management software 2022 ). This mechanism was specially designed for movies, so it has many points for fixing the camera.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 4, 2021

While the year has been a special one in Cogmind history for being entirely devoted to laying the groundwork for a great 2022, this is not only in the sense that a game-changing Beta 11 is well on its way to completion… For one, support via Patreon has really come into its own! The numbers don’t lie. Noticing a trend yet?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

Not only did we finally reveal the first official gameplay trailer for Kristala , but we also took part in a super exciting rapid pitch event held by our friends at Xsolla.and snagged free tickets to the 2022 Game Developers Conference (known as GDC to all the cool kids)! Concept Art. Staff Parry Icon. Riposte Icon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Coin Master truly innovated on a core Casino mechanic by making random chance just one block in the core loop, not the only block. 2019 Prediction #2: Existing top apps will incrementally improve live ops and content, and experiment with new meta concepts, additional currencies, and deeper/more complex social structures.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

On the other hand, Axie Infinity mashes familiar turn-based gameplay with a Hearthstone-like card battler mechanic. All of this is rooted in the fact that having a card battler mechanic live in the core gameplay greatly increases the player skill ceiling , especially when playing against other players.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2022

In 2022, it’s undebatable that the main gaming platform chosen by most people in the world is their smartphone. And potentially an existential threat to the concept of a standalone console in the next decade. After all, every PC and console player has also a powerful gaming device in their pocket at all times.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

GBuffer Definition of GBuffer In Deferred Rendering, the most important concept is the: GBuffer. It’s worth noting that Deferred Rendering is a concept, and there are many different implementations. On February 14, 2022, Khronos Group announced that all major browsers have implemented WebGL 2.0 2012-08-05, 99.5% Web WebGL 2.0,

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. There was no concept of events or free/ earnable content. Arguably, many campaigns Tencent was running back in 2012 are still bigger and more nuanced than what most western F2P games do in 2022.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 26, 2022

It is a concept of a persistent, online, 3D universe that combines multiple virtual spaces. The importance of NFT in 2022. Below are some notable trends which might dominate the NFT space in 2022. One of the leading NFT predictions for 2022 would be the growth of NFTs as a tool for utilities, rather than just advertising art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2022 has been a tough roller coaster for blockchain games. I think there is a lot to talk about, so let’s start with looking at what happened during that rollercoaster ride of 2022. The VC investment in blockchain games decreased significantly for the last half of 2022 (source: Jon Jordan ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The rules regarding IAP methods are now the following: Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency wallets, etc. The updates focused on the usage of NFTs and their functionalities inside games. to $184.4B

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

This widely used AI software helps users visualize concepts and create simulated photos using any kind of creative input. This program became especially popular in 2022 when users began producing different kinds of cool art and memes. This leading platform for artists provides a handy book on code and AI’s underlying mechanisms.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player. Robert Yang, 2022; (right) poem "Long years apart."

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