Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Some titles, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby, have taken things one step further by taking a multimedia approach, with mobile games, anime, and manga series all coexisting and building an ever-expanding universe. These abilities allow players to gain an advantage in the race to the finish line by grabbing or punching other competitors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained. The new move disrupted this balance.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

Building on key learnings, the team continued to fine-tune its cloud-based pipeline, including integrating AWS CloudFormation , which allows users to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. We’re also looking at the multiplayer experience for our online competitive mode: pennant race.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Racing Games: In contrast, racing games have shown modest growth, especially in regions like India and the Middle East, suggesting emerging markets' potential for specific game types. Apps vs. Games The balance between apps and games in the mobile market is shifting. All it took was Apple's privacy changes.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

If you balance things right, the choice isn’t always obvious and will depend on evaluating other factors at the time of the choice. Making a choice without enough context isn’t interesting Have you ever played a game where you had to make a choice really early on (like your character’s race) that had a big effect later that you regretted?

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Anything with “evil race has come to the land” Demons, orcs, whatever, is all bad, because these are all stand in for “people” There is a way you can do it where it comes off as more of a “force of nature”, almost like a huge storm or something, which is an improvement. Let’s get into the list.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If you balance things right, the choice isn’t always obvious and will depend on evaluating other factors at the time of the choice. Making a choice without enough context isn’t interesting Have you ever played a game where you had to make a choice really early on (like your character’s race) that had a big effect later that you regretted?

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Game developers look for ways to improve online multiplayer experience while balancing availability and cost effectiveness. We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. Build containerized game servers with AWS Developer tools.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

Successful games strike a delicate balance by offering a mix of high and low-stakes rewards to keep players engaged consistently. If players continue to build their win streak, they encounter reward bundles along the way for them to collect.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. The second largest sub-genre is the good and old Build & Battle. Signup for the newsletter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

There is also the fact that most of the big crypto investors who got rich through crypto hold most of their balance in Bitcoin. You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? So, it also shows how much the investors are gaining or losing at any given moment.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2024

In a church filled with diverse races, I was exposed to lots of different people even when it wasn’t allowed in South Africa.” He recalls transforming his father’s old building into a nightclub. So, buckle up as we embark on this joyous ride down memory lane with Bowden. Bowden grew up in Durban.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Grid Autosport This is a 2014 racing video game by Codemasters, representing the third installment in the Grid series. The game aimed to return to the series’ roots, focusing on authentic racing experiences after the somewhat less well-received “Grid 2.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Significant Revenue Growth Over the last month, Legend Of Mushroom has raced up the top-grossing chart to a top 10 spot, largely due to revenue growth in the Tier 1 Asian countries of Japan and South Korea. To compound on that, the items that you unlock don’t always translate well to guaranteed progression.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Many of us remember 2007 when Mark Zuckerberg said 'build your business on our app platform and you can keep the profits’. Likelihood of the prediction: 62% #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. They focus on empowerment, clarity, efficiency, and work-life balance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. PUBG Mobile was developed by Tencent’s Light Speed studio while Timi, who allegedly also was in a race to develop PUBG Mobile, ended up making Call of Duty. Why does Call of Duty Mobile retain so well?

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Game Industry News

APRIL 6, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS As the action amps up, you can really tell that Star Trek: Picard ’s final season is racing into the endgame. There is such a thing as too much build-up, after all. There exists a limit to the amount of hinting and promising and build-up before there’s just no way the reveal will be nearly impressive enough.

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Game Industry News

JULY 8, 2021

One assumes that the Wadi have some understanding of diplomacy as a spacefaring race, so surely, Falow can understand that their Chula causes the Alpha Quadrant contingent real concern. Joel Brooks gives Falow just the right balance of silliness and menace. Why he chooses not to alleviate same remains a mystery.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In Old World , missions could push the player to try out new paths and strategies – if a mission requires me to build eight shrines, for example, maybe I’ll try out pagan religion for the first time? At competitive difficulty levels, VPs serve as a dynamic game timer that the player is racing against to fulfill their ten ambitions.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good. One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. And the battles kind of suck. Let’s talk about that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The low entry barrier creates a race to the bottom where publishers will need to compete for developers on the basis of revenue share. In theory, the IDFV allows a publisher to build user profiles.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

While the rescue mission continues in the background, Stamets and Tarka build a to-scale model of the DMA, based on the assumption that the item has a control mechanism. They work together to build their model, and despite the intense power drain, they come very, very close to recreating the DMA. Rating: Three cups of Earl Grey Tea.

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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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. This is a game of building a deck of cards.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

It mimics the crowd simulation systems used by real-world architects to test building and street circulation. But a building is more than just walls and floor, a building also has a program -- a consideration of how it actually lives. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really. We call this ecology.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! Acquiring more Leader tiles gives the player more to try to balance. The Race to the Finish.

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