Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 19, 2023

It really depends on what you mean by whether major AAA companies “listen to the audience complaints”. Most major content updates ship every three months, so three patches in the future usually means players won’t see the things we’re working for another 6 to 9 months.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

More AAA and AA publishers are pivoting their main franchises towards these models to extend the lifespan of existing franchises. Games like Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox have achieved great success by adopting this approach, which focuses on providing players with regular updates and new content.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

The mobile market is incredibly competitive and there’s a growing number of AAA console and PC developers entering the fray. It can open up new ways to interpret and integrate live event data. Putting that framework together isn’t easy. Pay attention to the Motivational Driver Framework when using the Live Events Tracker.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We’ve repeatedly heard Xbox emphasize how important it is for the industry to offer a diversity of voices in content and make games available to players at different price points and via different distribution channels. Marketing spend is spiraling and even Apple has started fencing with AAA titles for their devices. Delicious.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS Compute Optimizer (New) – the new partner metrics feature allows developers to combine data from AWS as well as commonly used partners such as Datadog. This data provides suggestions for right-sizing game server instances on EC2. Learn more. Learn more. This allows game developers to quickly experiment with serverless backends.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

We just never thought that the impact would be so quickly visible in the data. On the bright side, the lack of investments in new content will lead to an unanswered demand in a couple of years when the market turns around once again. This is exactly what we warned about last year in our Console Gaming Triple Threat analysis.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

This evolving landscape presents opportunities for agile developers to thrive, even as AAA studios grapple with extended development cycles and rising costs. Trend: Single Player AAA Development Costs continue to Explode Premium Single Player games have been a healthy but stagnating market. in growth for the year 2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Economies of Scale Unlike Amazon which owns massive infrastructure, technology, and purchase and store search data, economies of scale for game companies don’t provide as much of a defensive moat to their businesses. use embedding strategies with game content companies as customers of their technology. Firebase), etc.

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines. Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. He holds a Ph.D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Secondly, look up profiles on independent data-driven websites. It specializes in producing both 2D & 3D content and has up to 200 employees. It is known for its 2D & 3D content creation as well as visualization and animation. AAA Game Art Studio. One such site is clutch. Bosi Art Studio.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 29, 2020

cell bg=odd_color,even_color border=color]AAA[/cell]. All input controls fully support structured text BiDi overrides, which do not interfere with caret movement, do not affect contents of the underlying raw string and unlike Unicode control characters can't be accidentally modified by the user. Compatibility.

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indie games like Wizard with a Gun often face more crash issues compared to AAA titles. I compiled this data by scouring various online forums, support platforms, and social media, where players often share their technical grievances. Table of contents: Why is Wizard with a Gun Crashing? Overheating can cause games to crash.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Source: Newzoo While many data and research companies are providing graphs showing modest growth, further analysis proves otherwise. During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Luckily, you - our dear reader - have the Deconstructor of Fun crew who combine public data and word-on-the-street insights to read between the lines and interpret what was left unsaid by one of the most influential game executives in the World, Mr. Ilkka Paananen. We’re bullish about the potential for growth unlocked by this decision.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Additionally, the Pass-related quests are great to foster horizontal content exploration , by directing players to engage with specific game modes or incentivizing them to acquire, play with and upgrade all the characters. I get THIS MANY CONTENT for this little money!? LiveOps linked to Pass content. You’ve got a deal!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

That makes them the closest thing in games to a rock supergroup: Maya Kylmamaa (Game Lead, Engineer) , was CEO of the now defunct Reforged Studios (a Helsinki studio focused on AAA strategy games). She previously was Technical Lead at League of Legends and a Software Engineer at several expansions of World of Warcraft , among others.

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Game Dev Unchained

JANUARY 16, 2025

Every single AAA studio is trying to copy that model. According to IGN (2024) , 70% of new AAA releases now have some form of live-service monetization whether its battle passes, microtransactions, or subscription-based expansions. Or are we just making content platforms?” Jordan: “We all saw it happening, right?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 22, 2024

Valve’s data shows games with a Steam page up for at least six months perform significantly better. ” Oh, and regularly update your tags to ensure they accurately reflect your game’s content and avoid irrelevant or incorrect tags added by fans. ” Focus on content about your game rather than unrelated events.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This allows smaller game companies to produce AAA game content, and that’s exciting.” Virtual Workstation – Epic Unreal Engine 5 Workstations on AWS seamlessly deliver high-fidelity, immersive 3D experiences across the globe without the need for expensive hardware and physical workstations to host and render the 3D data.

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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? Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. sorry if your game happens to crash, or you get a dreaded UI freeze. Kind of sad.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. They had the spinner idea in mind. Apex Legends Mobile by EA.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all data is gathered from the one and only App Annie and analysed by the author(s). While games like Plarium’s RAID Shadow Legends boast a lineup of AAA quality 3D champions, you can get away with less. Straightforward content production. All predictions can be found here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In live ops, these review processes are well-defined: systems and economy design, merchandising, UX, data analysis, and sprint planning for features that drive KPI improvements, better player segmentation, and improved UA funnels are the foundation of F2P mobile product success. Simply put, with the right circumstances, IPs mitigate risk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

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. Plus they have a library of world-class content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Instead of relying on tried-and-tested methods, they explore the untapped potential of generative AI to create entirely fresh approaches to content marketing and distribution. Notably, up to 10% of AI-generated content can be factually incorrect. AI doesn't possess ethical considerations; it simply mirrors the data it was fed.

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