AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. To strike a balance, the team aimed to automate as much of the body movements as possible while retaining the meaningful choices that players make while climbing. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

According to Sensor Tower, in January 2023, their grossed over $250M in IAP revenue which is their 3rd highest revenue month ever. The industry had to move from ad creative — audience pairing (showing the right creative to the right audience) to gameplay — audience pairing (serving the right content to the ad engaged audience).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As Slush 2023 wraps up, it sparked numerous conversations around the likelihood of small seed-funded gaming ventures growing into substantial teams within the current investment climate. This summary only provides a glimpse of the podcast's valuable content. And no, there are no pathways leading to instant success. Nick says no.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While Goodwin Games was officially founded in 2023, Selfloss has been in development since 2019, starting as a solo project led by Khoroshavin himself. In 2020, he was joined by his wife, Gorokhova Rita, who took on the role of 3D modeler and content lead. “Also, the boat traversal is quite unique.”

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

With such frequency and enthusiasm that, in April, 2023, Humble Bundle did a "Best of Survivors-Like Bundle" This, of course, was only a small selection of "Survivors-Like" titles, with the more successful ones (like Brotato and 20 Minutes Till Dawn) absent. However, the weapons aren't balanced well. Some of it very cheap DLC.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Take hybridization in gaming: while hybrid casual games were the buzz back in 2019, it’s only now—in 2023 and 2024—that they’re fully coming into their own. While some players are willing to pay for exclusive content, others prefer progressing through rewarded ads. Automation driven by AI is also reshaping user acquisition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Looking at the numbers, the first soft launch had three phases: April 2023 - Aug 2023: New content and new features (events) Aug 2023 - Dec 2023: Only content updates Dec 2023 - April 2024: No updates This suggests that the game lacked the same uptake and momentum that Royal Match saw.

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AWS Games

JULY 30, 2024

In June 2023, TPCi officially launched Pokémon TCG Live, an app that allows Trainers to enjoy the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) in an updated digital format. Instead of experiencing 8-hour downtime every two weeks, fans now simply click on a reconnect message to access the most updated content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

2023 was a challenging year for the mobile gaming market. Mobile Marketing Trends Mobile marketing has become increasingly sophisticated, with a growing emphasis on building lasting user relationships and leveraging user-generated content. Apps vs. Games The balance between apps and games in the mobile market is shifting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On February 14, 2023, Ilkka Paananen published a public letter “ The Next Chapter of Supercell ”. From the start of 2023 to the end of September, Brawl Stars was earning around $260k a day. From the start of 2023 to the end of September, Brawl Stars was earning around $260k a day.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The stunning visuals in "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) and Pixar's "Elemental" (2023) demonstrate how both live-action and animation redefine the limits of visual effects. VFX covers the blend of computer-generated imagery with filmed content and creates completely digital worlds.

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This episode is sponsored by Autodesk AU 2023 | November 13-15 in Las Vegas ⁠ ⁠ My conversation with Brian Canary, a seasoned game designer, reveals the intricacies of the industry’s shifting dynamics. A major topic that permeated the discussion was the advent of AI and its potential to revolutionize content creation.

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This episode is sponsored by Autodesk AU 2023 | November 13-15 in Las Vegas ⁠ ⁠ My conversation with Brian Canary, a seasoned game designer, reveals the intricacies of the industry’s shifting dynamics. A major topic that permeated the discussion was the advent of AI and its potential to revolutionize content creation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

In January 2024, Appannie recognized Microfun as the 16th leading Chinese game makers by overseas revenue, an improvement from their debut in the top 30 in January 2023. We will now go through many aspects of what the game is, but keep in mind that we will be looking at the balancing and pricing for one player account in this piece.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one! Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously community interaction is quite important and still plays an ongoing role in development, as always, but at this point I feel it’s more important to focus on expanding content as much as possible. In addition to lots of new content and strategic possibilities, the Garrison expansion even added a whole new faction system.

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California, and let me tell you: it did not disappoint! Start looking up specific companies relevant to you—artists and/or studios creating similar looking content or working on the type of projects you're interested in.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

This mode is designed for advanced players as endgame content and is played with eight card decks, consisting of three character cards and five support cards – players receive their first deck as part of the tutorial.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

trillion by 2023. Its interpretation of “metaverse” includes digital spaces where “individual interactions are highly multidimensional, and they can participate more profoundly with digital content,” than with written content. A newly published report from Market.us

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Metropolis Origins” launched in limited beta in November 2021, and the QXR Studios team anticipates a wider commercial release at the end of 2023. However, balancing a three-faction card game is quite difficult,” Devine shared. Amazon CloudFront is used for content delivery, and Amazon CloudTrail tracks user activity and API use.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

7 Challenges in the Metaverse Below are the common challenges one is likely to face when developing Metaverse games: Monetization: Generating revenue from Metaverse games may be difficult since creators must strike a balance between user satisfaction and financial sustainability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

As certain decks become dominant, players can quickly create counter decks to keep the game balanced and interesting. Each Season Pass has both free and paid content, and the free content is indicated with a "Free" tag in the corner of the pass. I feel like Marvel Snap has found a really good balance with this unique system.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

There is also the fact that most of the big crypto investors who got rich through crypto hold most of their balance in Bitcoin. Improved UGC integration : There is no denying that User Generated Content is becoming more and more important each day. So, it also shows how much the investors are gaining or losing at any given moment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

So of course, when Clash Mini and Supercell social networks started teasing about something big coming up in December 2023, many of us thought it was the global launch. … But there are also deeply impactful changes to the gameplay , which expand the new gameplay direction that was established in the July 2023 update. It was not.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems. For comparison, that’s a similar seasonal pace as TFT , a more established title with tons of content and higher degree of mastery depth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. IMHO, this makes it a different situation from the Second Dinner core team (of Marvel Snap fame), who were already used to working together at delivering top-level content and was easier for them to become operative.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I’m going to go ahead and just make this a SPOILER discussion as far as game content goes, so that I can write freely about related mechanics, so maybe don’t read this one if you’re spoiler averse and not familiar with teleporting. So here we are in 2023 still without a way to manage controlled teleports, what do we do?

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

It should also have a perfect balance of academic activities to enrich knowledge and earn practical skills for future employment. Selection of programs offered: VFX 3D Animation Game Cinematic Motion Graphic Content Production and Character Design 3. 2023, March 12). link] Accessed 10 July 2023. Best of luck! The Rookies.

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