AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2024

Load testing simulates heavy player traffic and mimics peak usage scenarios. Game backend solutions empower game developers to save time and money while building reliable and engaging games. They streamline the development process and ensure scalability, security, and reliability for your game.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Well, one part of the appeal of games is that they can theoretically simulate the real world and teach us about it, that we can make choices and see those choices be modelled accurately. These games could only simulate a faulty understanding of how baseball works. Let’s say someone wanted to test this theory with a baseball simulation.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. With FlexMatch, you can build a custom set of rules that defines what a multiplayer match looks like for your game, and determines how to evaluate and select compatible players for each match.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It involves simulating player actions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and keyboard inputs, to evaluate different aspects of game performance, functionality, and compatibility. It is crucial to strike a balance between automating repetitive tasks and allowing for exploratory testing to account for unforeseen scenarios.

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AWS Games

MAY 7, 2024

Palia’s external traffic is routed through a geo-load balanced domain name system (DNS) address to a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Still, there was fear that there were not enough players in alpha tests to accurately simulate launch numbers. Load testing their system was also necessary to ensure a smooth rollout.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Multithreading and workload balancing No amount of GPU work optimization will overcome a CPU bottleneck. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results. Recommended Balance command list creation and recording across all threads. This should be balanced with the ability to maximize workload overlap on the GPU.

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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 ). GoPractice is an online simulator course that will give you hands-on-like experience working on an ambitious product and making decisions based on real data in actual analytics systems.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You have to build VR experiences the right way to make this happen. Let people play out the fantasy Simulation is key for a successful VR game. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. It does take much longer to build a great VR game.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It continues from the initial player experience, building across game progression systems and the value exchange of in-app purchases, and throughout the user lifecycle.” Genres with a reputation for gameplay depth tend to score highest in loyalty rankings, with role-playing games leading, followed by strategy and simulation.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And are there potential challenges that developers should be aware of when using generative AI to build games? Also, you may not be able to simulate player behaviors accurately. Generative AI can help during game testing by simulating player behavior and identifying bugs in real time. But what is generative AI?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2024

Load balancing : Distributing player traffic across multiple servers to ensure that no single server becomes overloaded, accounting for regional latency. Whether you build your own backend solution or use one made by a third party is a business decision first and foremost. For multiplayer games this includes elements such as a.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. Graduate with an impressive animation showreel that you’ll build with expert guidance over your final term or trimester.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel.” RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. It looked really exciting to me”, he says. Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. We launch on Windows and Linux for now.

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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. NVIDIA Omniverse Connector for Unreal Engine 5 preview NVIDIA Omniverse is a 3D design collaboration and virtual world simulation platform for creators to connect and enhance 3D workflows.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. The event is balanced to provide easy progression upfront, but it significantly slows down as you approach the end.

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Game Errors

MAY 1, 2023

Simulation games have become quite popular over the years, and Hotel Renovator comes highly recommended by fans of the genre. Set High Performance in Power Options If your PC is set to “Balanced” power mode, it may not perform at its best during gameplay. This can be frustrating for anyone trying to play the game.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

For guidance on how to balance ray tracing and performance, we have a variety of webinars and other content that you can learn from. Their approach trains a neural network to learn the light transport characteristics of a scene and then builds a light cache that can be queried at a lower cost than tracing the full paths.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

It simulates how players behave, helping to spot balance problems, find cheats, and even measure how fun different parts of the game are. The best QA teams will balance AI automation and human skills, using both to their best advantage. The potential is vast, just like the virtual worlds we build.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. We’ve seen a few more simulation titles hit the charts this year.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There are other ways to build a game on a budget. Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists. It’s a life simulator game where you navigate through menus to manage your character. And Kaigan Games did a great job building relatable and believable characters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. 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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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

aoemica continued expansion of Cog-Minder , including not only the build and combat simulator and tons of raw searchable data but now also with an amazing new wiki including maps, encounters, strategies, and all sorts of good stuff. and the heavy combat guide , a style which leiavoia is very good at ;).

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Game Designing

JUNE 14, 2022

Yet, that’s not where Epic Games’ story ends, because the technology they have developed is also used in manufacturing, architecture, the automotive industry, and numerous simulation technologies. However, one of the key components that many current and former Epic Games employees noted was that there was a lack of work and life balance.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Strange Energies” builds upon the strengths established in season one to great effect. Here, it feels rushed, but despite that relatively minor criticism, “Strange Energies” successfully strikes the balance between calling back to a previous season and promising new things for the coming season that makes for a great season premiere.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Genre-Specific Losers: Arcade, Action and Simulation Games crushed by CPI increase: These genres have seen substantial drops, around 16% year-on-year, indicating a decline in user interest or market saturation. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the “single-player market” may sound like an oxymoron, innovative games like Shop Titans and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator tell stories through their in-game markets. For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

These performances can create empathy, build emotional connections, and draw players into the story more deeply than ever. Developers need to find a balance between realism and gameplay, making sure characters move in a way that feels real but also enjoyable to play. Gameplay Sometimes, realism should come second to gameplay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In many ways, Township has been the cornerstone for Playrix’s success as a title that allowed the company to build experience in live ops, analytics, and user acquisition. In 2019 Tycoon games, which are sub-genre of the simulation genre, grew revenue by 22%. Community Buildings = Higher Population cap: Needed to build more houses.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Without them, a 4X game suddenly becomes an aimless simulation where the players set their own goals. Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Ambitions and events can be a powerful framework to help the player build their story of victory.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation. Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Ranked Mode Builds Tournaments On-the-fly Most ranked modes do matchmaking by computing your matchmaking rating number, then finding an opponent for you with as close of a number as possible so that you’ll have as close to a 50-50 match with them as possible. Fantasy Strike ranked mode is a rough simulation of this excitement.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The interesting part is that you can see all these statues on the way in, foreshadowing potentially difficult bottlenecks on the way out (assuming you can’t directly confront and outright destroy all the living statues, a decent assumption for many builds).

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

Although in most games, at least usually one or two systems are kind of fully-cooked; in this one… probably the most polished and complete thing about the game is one of the minigames (the business simulator was pretty impressive). One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. And the battles kind of suck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

But what’s unique is that an actual villager needs to be assigned to the crafting building or construction site to finish the task. And players can arrange their buildings’ positions to make resource transportation faster. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. By the end of the game, that threat has disappeared and your build is fun and OP. But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone. It would feel terrible.

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