iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As the name suggests, generative artificial intelligence is a type of AI technology that can generate different types of content. This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery. Generative AI models can produce high-quality content depending on the data they were trained on.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The podcast unfolds an engaging conversation that delves into the challenges aspiring entrepreneurs face, the distinguishing traits of successful founders, and the timeless topic of work-life balance. This summary only provides a glimpse of the podcast's valuable content. This is really a very logical concept. Nick says no.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface.

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Real Programming

AUGUST 2, 2023

A few elements front-end developers oversee on static websites include: Button Layouts Navigation Images Content organization Graphics Animation These are visible to users and therefore fall to front-end developers. We start off lessons by emphasizing fun first and foremost while providing the basic mathematical concepts and coding knowledge.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion pieces of content had been downloaded, generating in excess of $500 million for creators, of which there were almost 300. We can’t wait to share new Minecraft content and experiences in the years ahead.” ” For Larsson, metaverse (always a blurry concept) is about joyful collaboration and creativity.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 9, 2024

Quality course content is imperative if you want to succeed in the creative industries. Experienced film and games professionals will be able to infuse relevant industry trends, technologies, and best practices within the course content. What is the student success rate? Online learning can remedy these issues.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The concept of a mobile game is worth thousands or even millions of dollars, which may not be enough. The mobile game monetization concept is simple – it’s about making money from the game. Providing regular updates, incentivizing events, and delivering fresh content are some common strategies adopted to keep players engaged.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog explores the concept of game automation, its potential benefits, challenges, and its role in shaping the next generation of testing in the gaming industry. Game automation testing allows for scalable testing by easily adding or modifying test scripts to adapt to changes in the game’s functionality or content.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Game Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

We focused on diversifying our optimization mix to balance scale and efficiency, test different creative concepts to appeal to a wider audience, leverage automation to grow at our scale and finally lean on new measurement approaches to truly understand the marketing channels that work for us.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 22, 2024

By the 1970s, the concept of user-friendliness of technology gained momentum. The 2000s and 2010s brought in digital content on screens of various sizes and resolutions, hence responsiveness gained in significance. Hyper-personalization is the process of using AI and real-time data to display highly curated products and content.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging. The proof of concept is crucial, helping decide if the game is feasible, its cost, team size, and timeline. Balancing creativity with project constraints is tricky. The 7 Odd Roadblocks!

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities. Generating Game Content Every video game features countless unique models, animations, sounds, graphics, and more. Producing these assets takes a long time and a lot of money.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As exciting as that was—let’s be real, the Orions are one of those species overdue for some development—watching Tendi learn how to balance her history as a prime assassin and her current reality as a science nerd has been great. She’s perfectly content living according to her Orion mores and values.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. Not only does it help your team manage the workload, but it means you can roll out more content to keep your players engaged later. It’s also defined a bit differently.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

A key reason is that Clash Mini seems in a much earlier and rough state than other Supercell soft launches : Less playable content, less spending depth, and several unfinished systems (i.e. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. No reason to play leagues…).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Big Games

AUGUST 27, 2021

One of the main reasons for the increased growth in mobile game development is because of the concept of instant games. These outsourcing companies have an exclusive team of professionals who are skilled in the concepts and technologies of their own field. And this industry shows unlimited growth possibilities to its audiences.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I was really unsure any of this would work at all, since internally it’s quite complex and therefore hard to gauge what outcomes are possible and whether they’d really fit into Cogmind, which has a pretty strong focus on design balance. The first iteration simply averaged together the stats of all the input items.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Every few years I think about the concept again, and it finds its way into my ongoing notes in yet another location in some slightly-altered form or alongside some other content idea, begging to be implemented.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Their attempt with Spooky Pop likely informed some of the good decisions that led to HDP: balancing known wins and innovation, testing a recognizable and previously loved IP and following best practices from top casual games. Florian Steinhoff has a great GDC talk about the balance of levels here. Obstacles are low complexity.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“I loved the concepts, the design. ” He subtly points to the age-old debate about work-life balance and the perceived differences between American and European professional cultures. Such exclusive content often ranges from in-game items like skins and talismans to digital rewards like wallpapers and physical media.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. We love the concept. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can. And despite Net Fishing!

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

I was content to move Civ 4 back to a top-down chess-board grid and away from the visually misleading isometric squares of Civs 2-3 , where horizontal and vertical distances were separated by a factor of two.). Indeed, many have commented that Civ 5 finally made hexes safe for video games.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. No, and in fact the concept of seeding exists specifically to prevent that from happening. Notice that this isn’t just about poorly balanced games. Even the best balanced asymmetric game will suffer this fate.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) Being able to refer back to an entire immutable history of player interactions with prior maps and their content, developers are able to more easily build sturdy plot lines that are harder to disrupt, for example. Meta Complexity.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Tilly’s approach reminds me of a concept in criminal jurisprudence known as restorative justice. That’s a good balance to strike, and it’s a nice note for a midseason episode. If you’re looking for more Trek content, feel free to check out the podcast on which I’ve been working here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. When it comes to heroes Puzzle Breakers has the same concept as E&P. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

The key to success is balancing IPM and LTV, and making sure that the gains on the IPM side are higher than the losses on the LTV side of the equation. Research different game themes and art styles The first step is researching different game themes in order to find the highest converting concept for a specific game mechanic.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

It was a very tranquil concept at first, though we found our prototype didn’t offer enough things for the player to do.” For stuff like gameplay balance and feature implementation we have equal input and chime up if there’s something we feel strongly about.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Sky Mavis team knows all this, which is why there are several new developments in the pipeline: a F2P version with (potentially) greater distribution, land, user-generated content, and more. That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important.

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