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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The connections and skills gained at MEST empowered Esio to build a platform that facilitates collaboration across Africa, connecting stakeholders and resources efficiently. ” While Ogunyebi and Abdulkabir balance full-time jobs alongside their commitments to the company, Esio remains actively involved.

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QORPO brings generative AI features to AneeMate with AWS

AWS Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The AWS team has been so helpful in showing us how to use new technology, like generative AI, so that we can focus more of our resources on developing games and testing out innovations instead of building every piece ourselves. QORPO has collaborated with more than 50 esports teams and leading gaming guilds.

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It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

In such situations, it’s important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. while more casual players cannot. Generally, that means the additional performance must come from two things at the pro level - a high bar for execution (e.g.

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UX Dev Balance Esports

It seems in competitive games with a healthy pro/esport community, balance is often different between the pro and casual levels. E.g. Class A tends to dominate Class B at the pro level, but Class B tends to dominate Class A at the casual level. If you try to make Class A relatively more powerful to make the experience better the majority of players, it will only exacerbate the imbalance among the minority of pros (which damages the health of the pro community). How do you prioritize/negotiate?

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In such situations, it's important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. while more casual players cannot. Generally, that means the additional performance must come from two things at the pro level - a high bar for execution (e.g.

UX

UX Dev Balance Esports

Are Video Games A Hobby?

Game Designing

AUGUST 26, 2023

You can also turn your hobby into a career by getting into esports and livestreaming. Where a gamer is placed on the scale is all about balance. Three-Step Process of Building New Habits Developing habits and addictions involves these three steps: 1. Gaming: Hobby vs. Addiction Is gaming a hobby or an addiction?

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2020 Predictions #9: Newcomers Will Reimagine Card Battlers

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hearthstone’s recent sets have also caused balance problems for the game, and in the time it takes to adjust, players churn at higher rates. Magic is trying to establish itself as a premier esport, so we can look to Twitch to gauge Magic’s success in that arena: From sullygnome.com, daily average viewers for Hearthstone and MTG on Twitch.

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Riot's Runeterra Declares War Against Blizzard's Hearthstone

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Players collect cards, which they use to build decks, which they use to compete with one another. A rough metaphor would be like party-building in an RPG, except instead of customizing the characters in your party, you customize which characters go in your party, and you can choose from among hundreds of characters to do so.

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Best High Graphics Games for From Casual to Hardcore Gamers

Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With a balanced mix of realism and accessibility, it features excellent handling, damage modeling, and a variety of cars and tracks. Fortnite: Save the World is a cooperative tower defense shooter, and Fortnite Creative allows players to build their worlds and arenas.

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

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. Supercell dominates two sub-genres (Build & Battle, RTS) and is extremely strong in one (MOBAs). Clash of Clans takes nearly 70% of all Build & Battle revenues.

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10 Years of Excellence - Deconstruction of Supercell

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Brawl Stars is an action-packed, esports-focused MOBA and thus it didn’t cannibalize existing games: in fact, Clash of Clans remained stable, Clash Royale continued its rate of decline, and Supercell’s total revenues in 2018 grew. This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device.

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Axie Infinity: Infinite Opportunity or Infinite Peril?

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. Essentially, the goal is to build an Axie Infinity Universe with more ways to earn and spend tokens (and therefore generate more ongoing revenue). Some concerns are easier to solve than others.

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Web 3.0: Crypto-currencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn

Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

An early esport competition for Starcraft 2 in 2011 awarded a 1 st prize of $500 and a prizes for players in positions 5-8 25 Bitcoin, worth about $25 then and roughly $1.4 It must have purpose in the game, and stats which are balanced with other items in the game. And why wouldn’t you. million today. It needs to have animations.

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

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. We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. The grand scene).

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