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Mirthwood by Bad Ridge Games is mixing genres with something darker and more adventurous

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We worked on Mirthwood part-part time for about two years before starting Bad Ridge Games in 2022.” All I knew was that I wanted something painterly and unique, and not necessarily more pixel art, which we love by the way,” he says. We knew the farm sim market was saturated, but still very popular,” Otis explains.

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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

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A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things. For both of these cases, pixel games often work as a great basis. The market has shrunk from 3.9B

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Only a handful of studios in Slovakia generate the lion share of game revenues

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million in 2023, but a long way removed from the pandemic-induced highs of 2021 and 2022 (€80 million and €77.1 Pixel Federation is still the biggest game studio in the country, both in employment (270 workers) and revenue. million in turnover, slightly up from €70.1 million respectively).

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Star Nomad 2 major update incoming

Half Geek

In the update, each system will be expanded, from 15K * 15K pixels in dimensions, to 24K * 24K. It’s not a huge increase in terms of 1D, only being 9K pixels extra, or ~60%. But in terms of flight area, it goes from 225K pixels to 576K, more than doubled.

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UN survey gauges player sentiment on environmental game content

GamesIndustry.biz

The survey gathered answers from 389,594 players between March and October 2022. The respondents were players of 11 games from studios that are members of Playing for the Planet Alliance, namely Future Games of London, Oh Bibi, Old Skull Games, Pixel Federation, Space Ape Games, Tilting Point, Ubisoft Barcelona, Ustwo Games and Wooga.

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Ada Eden’s AI-powered 1001 Nights is a human story about narrative power

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With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, the game became more sophisticated, incorporating new features and content. ” Pixel Art’s great aesthetics Visually, 1001 Nights is as compelling as its narrative. Despite the AI’s limited capabilities at the time, Sun managed to cleverly guide it into producing specific responses.

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Japanese solo dev Ginolabo: “I always wanted to make my own RPG”

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It became a huge success when it was released in early 2022, soaring up the rankings to #1 for paid RPG apps and #2 for paid game apps on both Google Play and iTunes in Japan. Gamers and critics praise the nostalgic pixel art visuals and the innovative take on turn-based battles. “I From start to finish, I gained valuable lessons.”

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