The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

Never trust professional reviews of AAA games. They were written by professional indie game developers who should know better. They were written by professional indie game developers who should know better. People who DARE to want a functioning, entertaining game for their hard-earned dollars. (I’m

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

The video game market is an endless treasure trove. As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. If you look at the development of computer games, you’ll find that indie games have always existed, only now they have a much better channel of distribution.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Game development is a complex process that involves a lot of different specialists and consists of a number of steps and smaller tasks. . To develop a high-quality and competitive game, you should carefully execute every stage, step by step. This is what players first pay attention to, comparing your game with others.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL).

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Get your latest Newzoo report for free >>> HERE <<< In this episode of the Deconstructor of Fun podcast, host Mishka Katkoff engages with Ben Porter, NewZoo's Director of Consulting, to delve into the profound shifts within the gaming industry reflected in NewZoo's latest report.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 22, 2022

Recently I promoted my Lazy Game Dev product and this is one of the emails I wrote for the promotion. A lot of people found it funny so I’m sharing it here for some entertainment. You, Mister ‘Lazy Game Developer’ …come from the future?!?!” Maybe Lazy Game Dev could help you do the same. BAHAHAHA!”

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Gamesbrief

AUGUST 11, 2022

There are three major ways that we, as consumers, spend money on video games: We subscribe to services such as Gamepass, Apple Arcade or Netflix We buy “boxed product” games, for example: AAA titles in physical boxes or indie games on Steam We buy virtual currency or virtual items in free-to-play or service games.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sony aimed to redefine the handheld gaming experience and delivered on it while enjoying great success in the process. PSP was home to some of the most technically advanced game development on a handheld in its time. It became a staple device for family entertainment and gaming on the go.

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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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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

.” Alanah Pearce, who works with the narrative team at Sony Santa Monica made a similar case : “As a writer, having to edit AI-generated scripts/dialogue sounds far more time consuming than just writing my own temp lines I would far prefer AAA studios use whatever budget it costs to make tools like this to instead hire more writers.”

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. And sure, it will work again now, on some people: in particular, those who are newer to games like these.

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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). Email Address.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nevertheless, now that the hype faded out and people are more focused on actually making games, the trade-off between decentralization and mass market reach should sway developers to forget about buzzwords. Apple simply does not want game developers to direct players to make purchases with any method but IAP. to $184.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

You should be fine as a player to be in that situation since you traded money for entertainment value just like any other game. On the other hand, they might want to sell them simply because they got bored and don’t want to continue playing it even if it means being net negative monetarily.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Based on the current marketing environment, we made the decision to temporarily suspend our new game development pipeline until the ROI for new games is economically viable.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The gaming industry’s impact ripples far beyond the 3.4 We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated.

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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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