Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

GIFTING: One very innovative use of Stars is the ability for apps to allow their players to send Paid Gifts to each other — special badges or achievements that live outside of the game and that players can show off on their Telegram profile. Experience with idle games — making a repetitive action seem fun and not taxing — is key.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This sense of putting a player's abilities to use against a difficult situation in a game (challenge), and rewarding their potential for every challenge they overcome and every progress they make in the game (achievement), makes a player want to play. What is Level Design? Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1.

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Fresh from raising $13 million in funding, Avalan Corp is beginning to outline its vision for Web3 game development, most particularly the company’s belief in creating development tools that aid world and asset creation, as well as interoperability between games. “Think about a Marvel Universe, for instance.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Six months into development, Coma accepted a job at Appeal Studios as a game designer, eventually becoming a game director. During his time there, he reconnected with a colleague from a previous game jam, Baptiste Remy, who shared an interest in making smaller indie games outside of work hours.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Art and Asset Creation Focuses on building 2D characters, environments, and assets on a two-dimensional plane. Which Animation Style is More Resource-Friendly & Effective for Game Development? Simpler Asset Creation2D assets such as sprites and backgrounds require less detailing, which makes them easier to build.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just like reality, games need an internal mechanism for the distribution of resources during gameplay. This system is known as the video game economy. The in-game economy creates balance within the game by enabling the player to earn and spend resources as part of the game’s progression.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Join us as we dive deeper into details about these ground-breaking games. What are NFT Games? Unlike traditional games, NFT games are based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are digital assets that are indivisible and unique. NFT technology is used in games to attract investment.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Again: the last two bullet points can be expressed also as: “the game is too long” Every RPG I’ve ever played felt too long, and the above two reasons are why. Too “balanced” Strategy games can’t really be too balanced, but RPGs easily can, and most that come out these days, are.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While these assets don’t have the returns of traditional investments, they grow in popularity largely due to the “fun” factor. What makes a market game “fun”? I propose three core components: Fun Assets. Fun Assets Thematics make dull things more fun. Not to mention the entire cryptocurrency space. Skill curve.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I should have predicted a $10 billion-a-year game if I wanted to sound like a true visionary. In my heart, I am a game designer. I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. I know a thing or two about power creep in game economy.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. In this blog, we’ll delve into the future of art and AI in game production, exploring the latest advancements, challenges, and potential industry-wide impacts.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With many games available today, gamers won’t hesitate to switch to a different game. But how can generative AI help in-game conceptualization and design? Generative AI tools can help game designers in different ways. This streamlines the early game development stages.

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iHobo

MARCH 16, 2022

It was, on the whole, extremely reasonable – and I knew that it would be a huge asset to the project to have Tom as narrator. A decision was made at some point that we would focus on getting the game balance right for the main body of the game, and not worry too much about the ending.

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

It should also have a perfect balance of academic activities to enrich knowledge and earn practical skills for future employment. It offers the following programs: 3D and VX Game Design and Development Film/Video Game Programming 24 – Cinema School 2D Film Animation 5. It must encourage collaboration among students.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As Yuval Harari writes in Homo Sapiens , our unique ability, the one that separates humans from all other animals, is our ability to weave stories that have real, tangible power , such as the stories of “the corporation” which can own assets and take actions, or “government”, or “money” So a cryptocurrency is just a currency.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. Video bumpers are also now an option.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

Having such a nostalgy hungry fanbase is a great asset. The control system is a key illustration of the game’s struggles to deliver in terms of immediate gratification. Another example of this is the game’s win condition, and the extent to which different strategies are encouraged and discouraged by game design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Due to the limitation of the 2D models, showing a different angle of a character requires new art assets instead of a simple angle change in a 3D game. For a 2D game, animated cinematics can significantly help with storytelling in the main campaign. Only a few balancing issues in some systems or features could be detected.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Both games were incredibly successful and powered by humongous content machines that could deliver maps, weapons, modes, and items at a regular cadence, thanks to a combination of large teams and a low bar for asset fidelity and design complexity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game. That means players engage more as a job (often as “scholars” from developing countries who borrow in-game assets from richer “sponsors” or “managers,” who receive a cut of their earnings) than for fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As an example, I used the following process to design the technical test for the artist position: Problem statement : “How can I check that the candidate has the versatile skills for the role (can define a strong art direction, can do hands-on work, understand game design)?” A team is a constant balance to maintain.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

One has the lowest possible production values, while the other boasts assets built by a multi-hundred team. One is an extremely high production value game with top-notch creatives. The effect of the release highlights the importance of balancing between releasing things quickly and testing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Battle Royale modes restrict the rewards players can be offered; permanent weapon upgrades impact the game balance, which kills the motivation to play. Activision has been trying to port Call of Duty to mobile for years, and many other studios have attempted to recreate the gameplay of COD with their own games. . #4

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch. This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. Voyeurs work differently, they have sex by watching a couple have sex.

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