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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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With the help of the incentivizing Friend Invitation system mechanic, game studios can scout more players by making the playerbase perform low-key user acquisition on their behalf. Lock exclusive rewards behind the friend retention mechanic. Let players promote your game, more engaged friends the merrier.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Players move between fantasy worlds, from medieval to cyberpunk. Avalon has found investment backing from the likes of Bitkraft, Delphi Ventures, and Mechanism Capital raising $13 million in a round announced earlier this year. ”The drop that began to take shape in H2 2022 continued and even accelerated in 2023.

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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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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich. This genre is getting marginalized in the West.

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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. Knockback.

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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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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 game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc. What was Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s secret to success?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. The first title, Top War adopted the “merging” mechanic popular in the Puzzle genre with an ambition to introduce 4X games to a more casual audience. Yes, please! Think of Settlers.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Roguelike” was definitely a buzzword among game developers last year in China, and the shockwaves made by the boom can still be felt today – for example, still in May 2022, we spotted three new games that claimed to be “roguelike” entering the Chinese iOS top-grossing top 200 list. source: Wikipedia).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 19, 2025

Magicabin is a relatively new adventure game, released in 2022 by Ivy Mobile. Players help her restore and decorate it, learn magic, explore a fantasy world, and make new friends - all within a charming, magical setting. However, two special mechanics also encourage resource spending.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 17, 2022

But mundane boredom is important to sell the workplace fantasy -- working late at the office, doing a repetitive task alone. Fun facts from this 2022 history of the bald eagle : real-life bald eagles are really mean and unpleasant, and for decades settlers shot them on sight. Just his helmet. We expect virtual sex to be frictionless.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player. I have also prepared a new 2022 edition of Right Marital Living, which I believe has since fallen into the public domain since its original 1899 publishing date. Robert Yang, 2022; (right) poem "Long years apart."

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