Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games. Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!, the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

With Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its backend, the Metalhead team accelerate and optimized its development and deployment of “SMB 4,” ultimately launching the game simultaneously on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with global support for cross-platform play.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

3D Animation- This includes building models and animating them within a virtual 3D space. Art and Asset Creation Focuses on building 2D characters, environments, and assets on a two-dimensional plane. Simpler Asset Creation2D assets such as sprites and backgrounds require less detailing, which makes them easier to build.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

This trend presents a unique challenge for developers, as it requires them to balance gameplay mechanics and technical capabilities to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for all players. Cross-platform Play Cross-platform play has become more popular with the rise of cloud gaming and game streaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Building a brand Cilingir used League of Legends and Genshin Impact as examples of brands that have resonated outside games, and stressed that community-building has never been more important as it lowers your UA cost. He also said there are opportunities in going cross-platform and direct billing.

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Big Games

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the reasons to choose Outsourcing Let’s look at some of the benefits of outsourcing your mobile game development that can enhance your game quality and helps you balance the development and publishing process of the game.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

You can get started building applications today. Balancing quality and performance is done by controlling the game’s internal rendering resolution. Additional benefits include: NVIDIA Image Sharpening with a spatial upscaler and sharpening algorithm for non-RTX GPUs for cross-platform support.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The second largest sub-genre is the good and old Build & Battle. But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio. Both hypercasual and social casino markets can move on before your game gets to market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Unlike other card games that are built around specific heroes or mana colors, Marvel Snap has a more flexible deck building system. The filtering system in the card builder is particularly well done and user-friendly, making it easy to find the cards you need to build your ideal deck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , Executive producer at N3TWORK, who is building his first blockchain game. Ethan is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. The role is perfect for your skillset, the work/life balance would be great, everything about the role is appealing except the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

As a Lead Designer for LEGENDARY I invested a lot of time on creating and balancing our first few hundred heroes. But I spend anyways, ignoring the inevitable regret I'll feel when that month's credit card balance comes due. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games. .

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

This implementation handles spatial indexing of objects and, every frame, building a render list of objects drawn. Truth is, the main advantage of using them is the ability to build render command lists using multiple CPU cores. Balancing pros and cons, it's probably not worth implementing it, but the door is open for it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

You begin the game with a rusty, war-torn house that is slowly turning into a much more pleasant building with every level. The most important thing with Vigor is that it manages to maintain a balance between punishing survival of hardcore extraction shooters leading to a bit more accessible player experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, even back then, Chinese players would spend a substantial amount of money in microtransactions which, thanks to a massive gamer population, were driving multiple franchises above the annual billion dollar revenue mark, making the free-to-play model the only way to build a viable business.

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