PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

His experience in those fields really helped him in his game development career. Overall, I’d say that coming from the film industry definitely helped the script-writing process for games”, he says. The more you raise the bar, the more you risk disappointing somebody, especially if you don’t have AAA budgets.”

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Starloop Studios

MAY 4, 2023

With every new console generation comes the anticipation of next-gen games and the experiences they can bring to players. The arrival of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S was met with similar excitement and curiosity as to what the new console generation would bring. At Magic Media, we are well-versed in [.]

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. These games offer different gaming experiences, target different audiences, and have unique testing requirements for game QA. Games that require a large budget.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 17, 2024

Any company that wants to release a premium game console basically needs to make an enormous investment that will probably not pay off for years. First, the company must develop gaming hardware. This requires a significant internal development team to build drivers and software interfaces.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

What are the fresh trends in the gaming industry? The last few years have been motivating the game development field quite actively. Game developers, designers, and artists had to be quite inventive and creative to move it forward. Video games development incorporates PC games and consoles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

This conversation painted a nuanced picture of the current market, particularly the PC/console segment, and offered a glimpse into its future trajectory. This evolving landscape presents opportunities for agile developers to thrive, even as AAA studios grapple with extended development cycles and rising costs.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game is an almighty genre mishmash almost reminiscent of a AAA console game, carefully combining heavy story and character-driven RPG elements with hectic shooter gameplay. The narrative is a vital part of the drive toward in-game progression. The range of genres on display in X-Hero is incredibly diverse.

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Game Development News

MARCH 28, 2023

Playground Games’ founder and former studio head Gavin Raeburn has announced that he has set up a new game development studio

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

With 95% of game makers developing or maintaining a live service game, live events have become one of the most important elements of finding and maintaining success in not just the mobile market, but PC and console too. You should start thinking of your LiveOps strategy from the moment you start developing your game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Finally, we concentrated exclusively on the gaming industry. While this includes companies beyond game development — such as platforms, tech solutions, and web3 startups — all the entities in our study operate within the gaming sector. 4 mobile games developers, founded mainly by former King’s employees. —

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. We anticipate that such lofty production values will only get more impressive as time passes.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2023

Development costs are lower, turnaround time is faster, expectations are lower, and audiences are larger on mobile, so it makes sense that licensors would go there. In addition to the rise of mobile, the relationship between a movie tie-in console game’s development cycle and the movie itself was already fraying in the mid to late 2000s.

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Game Development News

APRIL 21, 2023

PlayStation Studios has acquired AAA multiplayer game developer Firewalk Studios

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Electronic Arts (EA) engages players around the globe in immersive games across PC, console, and mobile. Known for popular game franchises including EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, and Apex Legends, EA regularly releases new game versions to mitigate issues, make improvements, and add new in-game content.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

At Heroic Labs , we see games development in a similar way. The rich variety of tooling available to games developers has delivered an explosion of creativity over the past decade. And that’s why we’re excited to support the development of the Godot Engine as a sponsor. Democratising game development.

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Starloop Studios

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Game UI design for multiplatform projects is a significant challenge for game developers. Video game UI requires certain elements regardless of platform, but the platforms can have wildly different requirements from game UI design.

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 3, 2023

Nintendo Switch development is a unique process in the field of game development. One of the main features of the console is the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con. Not as powerful as its Sony and Microsoft counterparts, it relies on interesting input methods and features to help devise novel gameplay experiences.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

The identity component also supports anonymous guest users for getting started quickly, and allows extending to other platforms, such as consoles, by using the existing integrations as a starting point. About Harmony Games Harmony Games was founded by AAA industry veterans Volkan Ediz, James Koh, and Joseph Kubiak.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The advent of handheld gaming consoles marked a significant era in the gaming industry. This bubble of time, between the early 2000s and mid-2010s, witnessed the rise of several iconic handheld consoles, including the Sony PSP, and various iterations of Nintendo’s DS line, such as the Nintendo DS, 3DS, and 2DS.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2023

As a part of iXie since its inception, he has made major contributions to the growth and development of this gaming division of Indium Software. Santosh has worked on all gaming platforms, but his core competencies are PC, consoles, mobile and web games. In the case of PC Games, Need for Speed and Road Rash.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

AAA Boom and Bust Supercell’s “much more typical of a AAA game launch, and is atypical of a mobile launch” strategy failed. At maybe $50M in launch budget, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the potential to forgo soft launch periods for other games in development. After all, what’s there to lose?

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Six highly accomplished veteran developers launched QXR Studios in 2020, simply because they enjoyed working together. It’s solid tech, so we didn’t worry about the infrastructure breaking,” noted QXR Studios co-founder Graeme Devine, whose development career began when computers were programmed with punch cards. “It

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

In this blog post, I delve into these trends, dissecting their implications and exploring the broader implications for stakeholders—from seasoned developers to aspiring entrepreneurs. The streamlining of game production processes is a blessing for the longevity of the industry. Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. The introduction of Unreal Engine 5 is an exciting development for the game development industry.

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Starloop Studios

JULY 6, 2023

Game porting is a common practice in the gaming industry, as it has been for decades, but in more recently, despite the complexity of game porting, game ports are released faster and with more efficiency than ever.

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Game Designing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Kojima always had a knack for creating and worked on film and writing projects before deciding to enter the video game industry in the mid-1980s after securing a job at game developer Konami. Game Development Style & Philosophy. More than anything Kojima treats video games as a storytelling medium.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Just like in the years prior, the blog post travels at lightspeed across the mobile gaming industry, achieving two distinctive outcomes: EXCITEMENT: Ilkka’s annual blog posts excite game developers everywhere. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. On the other hand, it leads to a quite unstable business where you might have to pivot after a year of development. However, the hard part lies in experimenting with everything except the game development itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g., Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Anyways… here we are 12 years later and Live Service and Other revenue account for nearly 70% of EA’s revenue, with Full Game sales making up an anemic 30%. GTA5 has spanned 3 console generations thanks in large part to GTA Online. But all of this is just the preamble to the real meat of this post. And the results were disastrous.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

4X games can’t scale by exclusively poaching users from other games -- they need to be able to recruit new audiences to achieve long-term unit economics viability. Successful 4X games developers are constantly bringing new gameplay mechanics to stand out in the market as seen in the examples below. 4 High entry barrier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Yet this year it’s the console segment that is the biggest revenue growth driver, with an impressive +7.4% Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. Console publishers rely on blockbuster franchises. year-on-year increase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

It specializes in game development. . iXie initially focused solely on game QA and specialized QA but recently the studio broadened its area of expertise to include game localization, art production, and 3D services. . Notable gaming companies Viking Corporation has collaborated with are Ubisoft, Sega, and Nintendo.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

On one hand, it makes sense that Netflix would want to be the Netflix of gaming. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

This is almost impossible to make game about unless it was a AAA console action game in the vein of Uncharted. I was not part of the development of either of these games. In Conclusion Creating a successful F2P mobile game isn’t going to get any easier.

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