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“Post-Balance” Cogmind Item Expansion

Grid Sage Games

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. There’s already a ton of core content--many hundreds of hours worth. Lots and lots of fun.

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Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre

Deconstructor of Fun

Players often return to established titles after trying these new games, reflecting the powerful gravitational pull of long-established live services that are firing new content on all cylinders. Players expect consistent, fast updates, and any delay or lack of content can quickly drive them back to older, more reliable games.

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The Importance of Beta Testing in Game Development

iXie gaming

Beta testing is a critical game quality assurance (QA) process. It allows you to detect technical problems in your game and assess gameplay and balance. You can think of beta testing as a pre-release measure to identify performance and gameplay issues before the actual launch. But what is beta testing?

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Supercell's Record Year: Crushing It, But At What Cost?

Deconstructor of Fun

In 2023 this increase in content cadence doesnt seem to have any positive effect on the games revenue that continues to slide until late 2023 when the marketing is turned on to 11. The annual letter defends the decision to forgo soft launch, points to positive beta results, the $100M of gross revenue, and Apple/Google backing.

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Web3 metaverse MMO Avalon unveiled in new trailer

Game Daily

With the technology and tools we’re developing alongside our partners, we want to foster a community for our namesake game that is able to create their own content and benefit from it, and immerse themselves in content that others have made and shared.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. The beta comes with a work-in-progress conversion tool that does part of the conversion work from 3.x beta 1 now! Check out the video!

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5 Major Stages of Game Testing 

iXie gaming

We test everything, including character customization, skill trees, multiplayer interactions, and endgame content. Content Testing While how a game works is very important, a great gaming experience is more than just its mechanics and systems. Stage 3: Beta Testing During the alpha stage, the main mechanics of the game were improved.

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