PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.The recent Kickstarter campaign for the game reached its 60.000 goal in just 19 hours! Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will release in Steam Early Access in September 2024.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ). Including art!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Now we’re in 2024 -- and since 2020, we haven’t seen any new IP get a foothold into this market. The player base dropped from 80 million monthly active users in 2021 to 50 million by mid-2024.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The success is also made evident by Lily’s Garden, which added its own Wordle-inspired minigame, Juice Bar , in July 2024. The primary gameplay loop revolves around an abandoned farm, which players have to care for to survive, planting and harvesting crops, constructing buildings, and fulfilling orders for villagers.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. of each level.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters. At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Content stays king. year-over-year to $186 billion in 2024. Console hardware sales are projected to decline sharply by 31% in 2024 and another -11% in 2025E, due to the end of the current console generation cycle. Some highlights from the report: The global market for interactive entertainment is on course to reach $250.2

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city. When the team first decided to make a sim management style game, they quickly settled on a city building sim. “We That gave us the idea!” by Emperor Taizu of Song.

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AWS Games

MAY 9, 2024

At GDC 2024, AWS thought leaders, game developers, and 12 technology partners hosted a partner showcase where they discussed best-in-breed tech used to build, innovate, and maximize growth of today’s games. Three panels covered Generative AI, Cloud Game Development, and Game Backends.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape. Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will release in Steam Early Access in September 2024.

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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. Manish breaks it down: with hybridization, studios can start monetizing right out of the gate, capturing ad revenue early on and building toward IAP conversions down the line.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

iXie, through this article, explores the top 5 mobile game monetization strategies to consider in 2024 for the best results. Providing regular updates, incentivizing events, and delivering fresh content are some common strategies adopted to keep players engaged. This will help maximize monetization potential and improve retention.

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Cocos

MARCH 31, 2024

Try to test a simple, empty build, but failed when XCode builds (or using Cocos Creator ‘make’ button). The following is the build error logs. We need to upgrade our MAC build machine soon. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/audio/apple/AudioPlayer.mm:30: Can anyone help?

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity is used for use cases beyond games, and these new use cases may not run on traditional game platforms, so being able to build for a wide variety of platforms is critical. Below are some ideas implemented in this solution.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai Mobile Marketing Trends Mobile marketing has become increasingly sophisticated, with a growing emphasis on building lasting user relationships and leveraging user-generated content. 2023 was a challenging year for the mobile gaming market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The average check size for Early-stage VC-backed gaming studios has fluctuated notably between 2020 and 2024. In 2024 YTD, a slight rebound indicates cautious optimism but continued conservatism in investment size. In 2024 YTD, ten deals totaled $49m in disclosed funding. over 38 rounds during the same period.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not only are collaboration events a great way to engage players, but they’re also a great way to boost your game’s monetization through the addition of new content, such as event-exclusive cosmetic items and collectibles. The best in-game collaboration events are often mutually beneficial. Source: GameRefinery SaaS Platform.).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I have prototypes of the game going back a few years, but I started really working on this iteration in November 2024. And the beauty of this museum being a virtual experience is that theres no space to rent or building to upkeep, so I can afford to make it free! Its also my first real 3D game. How did you discover Godot?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Catizen — one of the top Telegram success stories — earned $25 million in revenue as of September 2024 with over 1 million paying users. It’s a simple but very slickly designed “business sim” where you build your own ‘crypto exchange’, with a hamster as CEO. The game Hamster Kombat hit 300 million users.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With USD, we envision a future where XR content creation becomes more streamlined, efficient, and scalable, empowering users to bring their visions to life with ease.” Dive into the future of mixed reality with Varjo CEO Timo Toikkanen at GTC 2024. Varjo XR-4 headset The Varjo XR-4 series is now available to order.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s find out how KAYAC approaches development of Hypercasual games in 2024; what their expectations from the market are; which best practices for game development they can point out; and what tips for adapting games for the Western region they have to offer. As such, we intend to pursue both moving forward!”

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AWS Games

JULY 23, 2024

With social interaction central to the gaming experience, demand for user-generated content (UGC) across games is exploding, from Roblox to Fortnite and beyond. Set to launch by the end of 2024, it runs on servers powered by AWS and is currently in an alpha test phase on Android in Southeast Asia.

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Cocos

MARCH 28, 2024

Hello, When I try to open Cocos Creator and build the game (the scene was saved), I encounter issues with attached scripts. However, if I build an Android build using this, it will not work initially. Strangely, after rebuilding the game, the issues are fixed, and the Android build runs perfectly fine. 118269:40)

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

Stay tuned for follow up content on these sessions! Learn more about how to build a fully serverless game backend. They shared experiences and advice on how to build a more inclusive industry. FromSoftware – Elden Ring won three awards, including Best Design, Best Visual Art, and Game of the Year.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. Oscar Salandin is named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 2, 2024

It should also have high-quality, updated content, clear calls to action, and be fully accessible to people with disabilities. Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform that has been used to create more than 124,071 live websites, as of May 2024. Magento helps build trust among customers and enhances their overall experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Recently, I had the privilege of discussing the latest market insights with Devan Brennan, Senior Consultant at Newzoo, dissecting their August 2024 market forecasts. in growth for the year 2024.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Human touch Operating under the name RodentGames , Jason Larabie has taught himself the necessary skills to create his upcoming game Artificers Tower , a happy mix of base building, management sim and boss battles. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the games marketing efforts, he explains.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, the game's recent success is evident in its January 2024 performance, marking a historic high in revenue and unprecedented engagement metrics. New content releases would drive intermittent spikes in revenue, that would push revenue up to between $500k and $750k.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2024

This perspective is vital, especially as the industry grapples with the phenomenon of 'rightsizing,' which we recently discussed in our post on The Three Game Industry Trends to Watch in 2024. Intensive Relationship Building : Building relationships with top-tier candidates often takes years.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. Before we take a look at the bundle content, we will take a look at the standard gem packs to get a sense of the costs of the hard currency per price point.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2024

The pipeline builds and tests the application, deploys it into a QA environment, runs system tests on the deployment, and if they succeed, deploys the infrastructure changes into production. This solution is built using foundation models hosted on Amazon Bedrock. This is the self-mutating piece of the pipeline.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Written by Michail Katkoff , founder of Deconstructor of Fun and a games industry veteran with 15 years of experience in building, operating, and scaling games and game companies. A live game is expected to grow with each content update. Hammers are used to build decorations in the main menu. Another Squad Busters post?

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

NPCs are not limited to interacting with the player—they can also interact with fellow NPCs, making the world come alive with real-time generated dialogue content. The latest Convai technology also opens the door for multiple emerging use cases, such as building brand representatives and tutors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Of course, you can't always build the game without the cash. But then it goes down to looking at what the team has built and what are they building now. They leave Peak and they build Match-3 games, which they know so well. Create an account 2.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 22, 2024

The 2000s and 2010s brought in digital content on screens of various sizes and resolutions, hence responsiveness gained in significance. User-centered design took a human approach to building websites, applications and products, and not just a technological one. The solution is to collect only what is necessary with clear user content.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and TV Series (2019-2024) with the same name. Horror script synopses build tension naturally. For example, thriller synopses work best with short, punchy descriptions that build suspense. Writers should create a complete database of industry professionals who work with similar content or genres.

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