Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 was incredibly eventful (as you can read about below) and we are looking forward to starting the new year with all of you in a few days! 2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. 2022 has been the opposite. Subscribe here!

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

My initial blockout relied a lot on a new Trenchbroom 2022 feature "linked groups" , which allows a group of objects to update each other automatically, sort of like instancing -- I made one tree branch segment group, and then duplicated those groups into branches. It wasn't really fun to fight on the actual tree branches.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Other gaming VC-led deals followed a steady growth until peaking in 2022, after which the average check sizes declined across all categories, likely due to economic factors and increased caution in the VC landscape. a fantasy multiplayer RPG, but the project was shut down in May’24. Ex-ATVI studios saw a similar rise, reaching $10.7m

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

” The team sought to break away from traditional sci-fi and fantasy genres, finding inspiration in gaslamp fantasy—a style that blends nineteenth-century history with magical elements.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the best examples on the market today is Blizzard’s portable take on its dungeon-crawling RPG, Diablo Immortal , which takes players on an epic fantasy adventure set between the events of Diablo II and III. Call of Dragons features high-quality animated cutscenes that bring its fantasy world and characters to life.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The collaboration involved two One Piece games – One Piece Treasure Cruise and One Piece Bounty Rush – as well as Monster Strike , Knives Out , Puzzle & Dragons , and Granblue Fantasy. The film made the equivalent of $100 million after 46 days after its release and is the highest-grossing movie of 2022 in Japan so far.

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Designer Notes

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This episode was recorded on Sept 19, 2022. Games discussed: Super Mario World , Secret of Mana , Fallout series, Scorched Earth , MLB 2K ??? Civilization: The Card Game.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Three Kingdoms Fantasy Land ( 三国志幻想大陆 – 国创加强版 ) puts emphasis on an individualistic approach rather than incentivizing inviting multiple old gamers. Yo-kai Watch Punipuni (妖怪ウォッチ ぷにぷに) Invitation campaign has rewards tiers for invited players: new player, returning player, and active player.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The biggest acquisition in the sub-genre happened last year, with Applovin acquiring Machine Zone - the company that made some of the most iconic top-grossing 4X games of all time (Game of War, Modern Strike, Final Fantasy: New Empire). 2022 Predictions for 4X games We’ll see even more external IPs in the 4X genre.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Players move between fantasy worlds, from medieval to cyberpunk. Showing a demo for Fantasy Kingdom, the company announced various improvements including a new WebGPU graphics backend, allowing developers to run their Unity games anywhere on the web inside native apps or inside a browser. “In In-game businesses can be built and sold.

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Gamesbrief

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As many of you may know, I caught Covid in May 2022, and I have had Long Covid ever since. It’s a cozy, shopkeeping game where you clean, upcycle and sell trinkets in a wholesome fantasy world. I’ve been very quiet at Gamesbrief for a while. That gave me some time to reflect on what I want to do.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Dates to Remember From its opening on August 1, 2022, to the event climax on November 4-5, 2023, PRIFF promises to be a cinematic journey like no other. Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy ?: PRIFF is no exception, with its rules and terms designed to ensure fairness, celebrate creativity, and uphold the integrity of indie cinema. Best Comedy ?:

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Hey all I’m back with the first series of Winter 2022 for this week’s Anime Sunday. For those who like: Fantasy, LitRPGs, Action, Adventure, Comedy. It’s my Leadale Episode 01 Impressions! That sounds a lot more dark than this series actually is. Not for those who don’t like: Any of the above.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This is the last TWIG of 2022! Closing out the year, Seufert, Kress, and Laura discuss the 2022 Game Awards and what game launches to look forward to in 2023, Apple’s concessions on outside the app store payments, a brief FTC vs MSFT update, Playtika’s layoffs and Brawl Stars removing Loot Boxes. Read the full conversation here ?️

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

Developed by Kitka Games and acquired by Scopely Games in September 2022, Stumble Guys is a knock-out party game with a similar visual style and gameplay mechanics to Fall Guys. If you enjoyed reading this post, here are a few more you should definitely check out: Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

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Game Wisdom

MAY 19, 2023

While I did play plenty of them during the 2022 showcase, there were new games I had a chance to play for this … The post Best Games of Tacticon 2023 appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 1, 2022

With over 130 million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform offering fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball on it. In the 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Dream11 achieved its all-time high concurrency.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Of Course, It Has All the Other Crappe It's a game released in 2022, so of course it has to have all sorts of extras bolted on. It's the most Power Fantasy of genres. Once you’re really rolling, you can just stand still and watch huge waves of pixel dudes get threshed by your guns WWI-style. Permanent upgrades. Secret characters.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Final Fantasy IV In this spot in Final Fantasy IV , there are two visible rooms, and there’s a hidden passage that connects them, allowing the player to move between them.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Since the start of the year, there have been 7,800 announced layoffs so far in 2024 , compared to 10,500 for all of 2023 and 8,500 in 2022. Each has let go of a similar portion of its workforce. It would be naive to assume the bloodletting will cease any time soon.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

This stands in contrast to a post-COVID revenue drop of 5% for 2022. Games that were delayed from 2022 include hits like Hogwarts Legacy, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and the forthcoming Starfield. The report said that console sales will rise by 7.4%. Total industry revenue will hit $187.7 billion this year.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 4, 2024

She chose the one-on-one mentorship option and was paired with award-winning artist Tyler James (Blizzard, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games). We spoke with recent graduate, Sai Usha Poojitha Mannuru, about her time studying Concept Art & Digital Illustration Foundations at CG Spectrum.

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

billion from 2022 to 2027” at an annual growth rate of around nine percent. Loose definitions Certainly, metaverse enthusiasm still exists. Recently, author Neal Stephenson (who coined the word ‘metaverse’) delivered a keynote at the game industry DICE summit , titled “Games and the Open Metaverse.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This week we review Summoners War: Chronicles from Com2Us ✉️ Received this email from a friend? Subscribe here! year-over-year, comprising 54.9% of total revenue Social Casino portfolio revenue declined 10.2% year-over-year, comprising 45.1%

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2d Game Art Guru

JANUARY 14, 2023

Seemingly in an instant, they can conjure beautiful fantasy worlds, and depict unicorns. It’s amazing what AI image generators can achieve these days. Effortlessly your mobile phone app creates artistic portraits using your selfies. Ai is not creating these works from thin air.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This roguelike bullet-hell game has been one of the most loved PC games of the year and sits at position one on steam’s “best of 2022” list ( 1 ). It will be interesting to see if this PC port sees similar launch success as Survivor.io did (one article claiming that Survivor.io billion revenue and 1.1

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AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

The independently published title launched on Steam in July 2022, and has since attracted more than 50,000 players. Creating a game at this level is the fantasy of every game developer and I’m very proud of what I’ve been able to achieve thus far,” noted Omidi.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The development of non-fantasy tabletop (NFT) games is relatively new, so there are few well-established conventions. Throughout the first half of 2022, cybercriminals stole $1.4 Most NFT games use blockchain technology to track and verify who owns NFTs. This can make the game feel more secure and unreliable. billion from DeFi.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Hello, hello, there are only days left until the new year 2022, so we've put together a small list of the team's favorite and non-trivial New Year's Eve movies for you. The Polar Express" (2004) – Robert Zemeckis Robert Zemeckis is another famous creator of fantasy stories. Here we go! Very funny, witty and crazy.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2022

Situation Number Two I write computer fantasy role-playing games. That's how I will handle being a public communicator in the crazyhouse that is 2022. She told me that one of her friends was killed by a serial killer, and my smart-ass article greatly upset her. (I I believe her email and her stress were genuine.) What would you do?

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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. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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Filmustage

JUNE 7, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Joseph Kosinski There's not much to say. One begins to feel as if the entire plot is a hallucination, a child's fantasy that has been realized as an adult. One of the biggest premieres of the summer, which revived the niche of "summer blockbusters."

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala. Behold, friends!

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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 ). Captain Marvel” (2019) is a very cool example of the combination of Wires & Turning Fork.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Creature animator - Breathing life into real-life and fantasy creatures, creature animators add nuance and personality through movements, gestures, facial expressions, and how the creature interacts (and reacts) with its environment and other characters/creatures. CG Spectrum's 2022 Houdini FX student showcase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc. Mont Blanc Cookie is a designer so there’s a 2021-2022 Autumn Couture show. This shows that a global vision, an open mind, and a strong overseas team to delegate to and rely on can go a long way.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Lilith is also following a similar strategy that brought success to its competitors and published a new 4X title called “Warpath” in a completely different setting (World War 2 instead of the historical fantasy theme of Rise of Kingdoms) to expand its player base to a new audience. We expect at least Avatar to break into the Top 20 in 2022.

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