Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box. It’s all outreach!

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 13, 2017

Not only does he help gamers make healthier choices, but he’s a fledgling designer himself! Today he shares with us a game he really enjoys: Colony. Burt: I’ve fallen in love with Colony by Bezier Games, designed by Ted Alspach, Toryo Hojo, and N2 (the pen name for Yoshihisa Nakatsu). Think beyond the words themselves.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Not only does it help you demystify some of the speech you hear when you get into gaming, but it also has implications that could affect how you classify your website, categorize your Kickstarter campaign, or target an audience on social media or for advertising. What are hobby board games? Game Design.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Knowing the age, gender, location, income level, and other characteristics of potential players allows them to make sure that their games are targeted to specific groups and that the game content resonates with their audience. Demographic information also influences game design decisions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A brief rundown of current Telegram hits include: Hamster Kombat This idle game is the most popular gaming app on Telegram, with almost 100 million MAU! It’s a simple but very slickly designed “business sim” where you build your own ‘crypto exchange’, with a hamster as CEO.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

With WebGL, developers can harness the power of the GPU to create immersive gaming experiences that can be accessed by a wide range of users. Whether you’re looking to build the next big hit game or simply interested in exploring the possibilities of 3D graphics, WebGL is an exciting technology that offers limitless possibilities.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For instance, game development studios use GFS solutions to manage game assets, build distribution, and engine data for collaborative work among game designers, developers, and artists. Similarly, advertising agencies create commercials, digital advertisements and marketing campaigns.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

Compliance testing, a key part of Game QA , helps prevent these issues. By carefully checking if a game meets legal and platform requirements, it ensures that the game can be released, helps build player trust, and reduces risks. Advertising and Marketing Honest advertising is key to following the rules.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With privacy becoming more important to mobile players and the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in app advertising inventories, the quality of your creatives has never been more important to the success of your games. In most app advertising inventories, you do not have many levers to pull.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It continues from the initial player experience, building across game progression systems and the value exchange of in-app purchases, and throughout the user lifecycle.” Advertising remains the most successful discovery method for most players, with nearly half saying they rely on ads to choose their next game.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Though there are millions and millions of mobile game apps available on the Play/App Store, the game companies and developers are interested in building more and more games. Building the game and launching it in the market alone wouldn’t bring success to your game app. Maintain Simplicity .

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

How to become a 3D modeler CG Spectrum's 3D modeling career track and Bachelor of Animation and VFX (3D modeling) will help you build solid 3D modeling and sculpting skills. You’ll learn industry-quality asset creation, building 3D props, creatures, and environments using Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, guided by industry experts.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The price of this blog is that, every so often, I put an advertisement in your inbox. We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. When I did earlier remasters, I often redid things like the game system, because I thought my wiser game designer brain could make the old stuff better.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

The gaming sector uses game analytics in the following ways: Player Behavior Analysis: Game analytics can give information on how players interact with a game, including which levels they find challenging, how long they play for, and which features they use most frequently.

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Game Designing

JANUARY 23, 2023

This article will cover everything you need to know about building your digital portfolio, the tools to use, and why you should start making a portfolio now. First is a personal website that houses your art portfolio, and the other are tools designed to help create online portfolios, also called ‘portfolio builders’ or ‘website builders.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

By following the do’s and avoiding the don’ts, you can ensure that your game stands out in the competitive PC gaming market. In this guide, we will cover a range of topics, including best practices for game design, effective marketing strategies, and tips for optimizing game performance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

An idea crops up – Overwatch could create a co-op PvE mode, leveraging their fantastic characters to attract non-competitive players and grow their game. A round peg in a square hole Building a PvE mode for a PvP game is easier said than done. Hero mode will need to build all this out.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2. Sure, those are options.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

With progressively deep content wrapped into a single slot machine, casual art style, a more substantial meta, strong social features, hyperactive live operations and great UX/production value, Israeli developer Moon Active has pretty much flipped the traditional Slots games design model on its head. Coin Master’s Game Systems.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Monetization Strategy You should develop a fair and discreet monetization strategy if your game offers in-app purchases or advertisements. A player values the openness and the opportunity to play the game without being constantly upsold. When you gain confidence and experience, you can tackle more complex game ideas.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 7, 2022

Of course mobile F2P gacha games are the absolute peak level of this sort of stuff, but it bleeds out and infects everything else too, more and more, year after year. The alternative to aesthetic gacha-ism is to build games that are meaningful, that are human, and that are specific. Probably, games that are smaller.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Monetization Monetizing hyper-casual games is a major challenge for developers. As these games are usually free-to-play, the only way to generate revenue is through in-app purchases and advertising. Without strong retention strategies, players may quickly lose interest and move on to the next game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

To the well-known 2D animations belong the following examples: Cuphead, a classic run & gun action game. Mark Of The Ninja, a stealth-based platform game. Factorio, a game about building and creating automated factories. 3D art is predominantly seen in movies, TV, and video games. . Looney Tunes cartoon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Supercell’s previous entry, Spooky Pop, had a lot of design mistakes that prevented it from competing with the Saga model. Hay Day Pop however shows that Supercell has learned their lessons and clearly understands how to build on the genre. Both models start with an empty space and the player completes levels to afford to build it up.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The exchanging of audiences between hypercasual titles can be seen in the share of ad impressions “Jelly Shift” by SayGames has across 8 out of the top 11 apps it is advertised in. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Similarly, look for a wave of new titles from established companies—both in the casino and in other genres—as they strive to build growth. Signup for the newsletter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

This sort of elongated production process obviously has increased project cost ramifications, which only reinforces the above mentioned design evolution - more Hybridcasual! It leveraged its hypercasual core game design to center its marketing videos around, while also showcasing its more RPG elements in a light and fun way.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Sustainability is key to building long-term retention : It turns the game into a hobby that can be kept for months and years. And it also means a general mobile game industry shift from niche audiences (that could be once reached out through hyper-targeted advertising but are way harder to reach now) to broad audiences.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

Meanwhile, for a degree in Computer Game design, Digipen tuition is almost $60000/year now. Annual tuition to learn to make games at Digipen. And, once, shiny offices in a shiny building furnished in Modern IKEA.) It's become routine for those who make indie games to have contempt for gamers. Build a Discord.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

Thirdly, Rovio is boasting an organization with both technical and operational capabilities to publish games. In other words, the company has all the resources to build, launch and grow games. Rovio’s track record of launching games nearly every year is solid. The likelihood of the two new games failing is high.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Special thanks for the Hybridcasual design insights to Abhimanyu Kumar , founder of Naavik consulting. In theory, the IDFV allows a publisher to build user profiles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

For a market game designer, revealing information should be an orchestrated event. However, the current design craft feels immature. Robust frameworks like those described above will help develop the craft of game market design. Eric is an ex-Riot veteran and currently does economy design at SuperLayer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This post is sponsored by Lab Cave , a Mobile Growth Company that provides App Store Optimization and Mediation services for mobile Apps and Games. This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The tutorial phase doesn't adequately prepare players for the intricacies of the game, leading to confusion and potential player churn. Addressing the initial learning curve, introducing enticing mid-game offers, and refining unlocking progression are essential for the game’s long-term success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The tutorial phase doesn't adequately prepare players for the intricacies of the game, leading to confusion and potential player churn. Addressing the initial learning curve, introducing enticing mid-game offers, and refining unlocking progression are essential for the games long-term success.

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