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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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The Most Important Article On Selling Indie Games Ever!

The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

Never trust professional reviews of AAA games. People who DARE to want a functioning, entertaining game for their hard-earned dollars. (I’m A Few More Key Concepts To Remember 1. Every year, a half dozen AAA games make enormous fortunes despite being barely functional. Also, wait for user reviews of games.

Indy

Indy Games AAA Communications

Mini compendium of indie games

Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. Although they are often devoid of loud releases from the AAA sector, they still gain unflagging popularity. Many players are already bored with the secondary nature of AAA games and the lack of innovative ideas.

Indy

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Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction. For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com.

Writing

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Upcoming CIMFest Keynote: Flavored by Authenticity

Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction. For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com.

Writing

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Stumble Guys vs. Eggy Party: Which Fall Guys Clone Is the King of Mobile?

Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

BiliBili, a Chinese games and entertainment company, secured the rights to publish a mobile version of Fall Guys shortly after its release, but Mediatonic hasn’t announced any plans to release the game on mobile in the West.

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The three most important qualities in an RPG

Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). Added: A helpful comparison here would be to look at Black Isle’s 1997 game Fallout , along with Obsidian Entertainment’s 2019 game Outer Worlds.

Fantasy

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. We love the concept. Torchlight Infinite by XD Entertainment. Torchlight Inifinite is an ARPG (action roleplaying game), and the fourth title in the series made by XD Entertainment. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can. And despite Net Fishing!

Mobile Gaming

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? Meanwhile, Aleksis is an entertaining character with a big complicated party setpiece that invokes past Arkane games and the game marketing. So far, Egor is a random guy you know nothing about.

Fighting

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A race to the bottom on creator royalties?

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

However, we are missing the forest for the trees when we try to stick to a couple of high-level concepts instead of seeing the larger picture. You should be fine as a player to be in that situation since you traded money for entertainment value just like any other game.

Racing

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App Store’s NFT Guidelines: Imminent peril or entry ticket for blockchain games?

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There is also the fact that the App Store allows certain price tags for IAP items which completely destroys the concept of secondary market. If that last sentence means the secondary sales happening between players should also be an IAP, it does not only make sense because of the 30% cut mentioned above. to $184.4B

Mobile

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The Hybridcasual Gamble

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. Instead, we believe that it’s the native hybridcasul developers, such as Habby and Lightheart Entertainment that will emerge as the winner. the surprise announcement of Counterstrike 2, CCP's massive raise for a AAA Web3 game and more. Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

Mechanics

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Part 1: How Netflix could become the 'Netflix of Gaming'

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

I think the “smaller Apple Arcade” concept is a bit of a red herring. But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are.

Mobile Gaming

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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

The Most Important Article On Selling Indie Games Ever!

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Mini compendium of indie games

Flavored by Authenticity: How Personal Experiences Amplify Narrative

Upcoming CIMFest Keynote: Flavored by Authenticity

Stumble Guys vs. Eggy Party: Which Fall Guys Clone Is the King of Mobile?

The three most important qualities in an RPG

The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

A race to the bottom on creator royalties?

App Store’s NFT Guidelines: Imminent peril or entry ticket for blockchain games?

The Hybridcasual Gamble

Part 1: How Netflix could become the 'Netflix of Gaming'

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