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4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

A well-designed co-op game like Pandemic stands out among the crowd. At the time of writing this article, about 6% of board games listed on board game have cooperative play. In my anecdotal experiences, a new co-op game almost always gets a “ooh, it’s a co-op!”

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Q-Less: What Were They Thinking?

Game Industry News

As he gives the order, Q appears in Ops to mutter about how Picard would already have figured the whole thing out. Meanwhile, the crew in Ops is no closer to determining the source of the power drains. Sisko and Co.’s O’Brien worries about the toxicity, but Sisko orders it done.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. He concluded: “Nothing lasts forever – growth doesn’t last forever, but neither does decline.

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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Still, Nowell strives to maintain a healthy work-life balance. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge. Doggy Dont Care is all those things in the best possible way.

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2020 Predictions #10: Playbook to reach the Top of Sports Games

Deconstructor of Fun

We believe that the growth of individual titles will not necessarily lead to competition, in-spite of user base overlap, as there is enough room for them to co-exist and grow. We will see more aggressive addition of meta, social features and live-ops events combined with potential franchise tie ups. 1 position in 2020.

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Solo dev Simon Taylor saw his game Smash Dungeon fail “The journey comes to an end”

PreMortem.Games

You can write rubbish code and there’s no one to complain. I saw someone else mention a work life balance and being a solo dev can become all consuming. A mix of arcade games in Smash TV and Gauntlet Slayer while keeping the arcade couch co-op vibe. What are the biggest advantages of working solo? It’s all on you.

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The Fast Life and Fiery Death of Vampire Survivors Games.

The Bottom Feeder

If it looks good, you should write a copy of it. I was inspired to write this post because I saw a popular streamer playing Yet Another Zombie Survivors. However, the weapons aren't balanced well. The newer games try much harder to balance the weapons against each other, providing a better variety of builds.

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