Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Looking ahead, the biggest opportunities I see for growth and innovation in 2025 will center around advancements in AI-driven content creation, new monetization opportunities utilizing e-commerce, loyalty programs, and hybrid casual. Some of the leading platforms include: Midjourney: For high-quality visual content. Poolday.ai

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

This article explores the latest trends shaping the future of game art, including real-time rendering, stylized game art, AI-assisted creation, and the rising influence of user-generated content in shaping artistic directions. Struggling to balance cutting-edge visuals with performance optimization?

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Unlike traditional solutions, a comprehensive approach considers multiple factors - from content selection to optimal duration and technical quality. 264 codec configurations to balance visual fidelity and file management requirements. Place your most significant achievements first, maintaining momentum with equally compelling content.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

“The balancing of the game between two players,” Olczyk explains. We actively connect with our audience on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok, sharing updates, behind-the-scenes content and fun interactions.” We love the freedom that comes with remote work. ” So what exactly was the biggest challenge?

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2024

As game analytics advances and data collection becomes more pervasive, the need to strike a balance between leveraging data and respecting player privacy becomes more crucial. In this article, we dive into the ethical considerations developers must consider in-game analytics to ensure a balance between data usage and player privacy.

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

When all the aspects are imbibed and when the developers are content about the performance of the game app, it will succeed in the market. Therefore, the balance between simplicity and complexity is what is expected by the users, any game that satisfies this aspect is bound to succeed. Is It Easy To Balance Simplicity And Complexity?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Players often return to established titles after trying these new games, reflecting the powerful gravitational pull of long-established live services that are firing new content on all cylinders. Players expect consistent, fast updates, and any delay or lack of content can quickly drive them back to older, more reliable games.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In 2020, he was joined by his wife, Gorokhova Rita, who took on the role of 3D modeler and content lead. Click in my heart Selfloss stands out visually with a style that balances elegance with a folkloric, almost storybook quality. Later, Dmitriy Nakhabin, a former student of Khoroshavin’s joined the team.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Traditionally, gaming companies relied on application load balancers (ALBs) or network load balancers (NLBs) to connect players to services. AWS Global Accelerator can modernize your backend services that use application load balancers or network load balancers.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. Reinhard Wu explains: “The second test showed many players wanting to experience a city sim with more playable content, something they prioritized over historical accuracy. That gave us the idea!”

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

We believe that Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will be fresh and interesting to existing fans, since the game’s narrative and thematic content is very much in line with the Windstorm spirit, so to say. Horse game bubble Looking ahead, Ruppert has high hopes for Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

11:30am-12:00pm: Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds Room 3009, West Hall Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. Reinhard Wu explains: “The second test showed many players wanting to experience a city sim with more playable content, something they prioritized over historical accuracy. That gave us the idea!”

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Our overall goal with these balance updates isn’t necessarily to achieve perfectly balanced matchups. It isn’t even to achieve game balance that is “good enough”. The real purpose of balance updates is to keep the game interesting to the community so they want to keep playing it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While some players are willing to pay for exclusive content, others prefer progressing through rewarded ads. With these tools, they can pivot faster and produce more relevant, dynamic content. Adaptability to Diverse Player Preferences By blending IAPs with IAAs, studios can cater to a broader range of player preferences.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Balancing build compared to buy Launched in 2019, QORPO features more than 700,000 registered users globally and logs more than 100,000 daily users across its collection of first-party games. Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB continue to play a role in short- and long-term data collection.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 6, 2017

Make sure you have a basic sense of balance and no runaway leaders. Bonus content: a list of all the completion criteria in this article. Basic balance. .” Q: How does that apply to board games? A: First, strip out all obstacles to immersion. Make sure you have a clear objective and rules. Remove obstacles to immersion.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

We were made aware of a pretty sad bug where the ‘women in tech’ event in the game did not alter the gender balance of job applicants. – Mods can now add their own settings UI to the game’s settings-panel via a call to `GDT.addSettingsTab(title, content);` ( documentation ). Added: Translations of new content.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

” One concern raised during the conversation was the use of copyrighted material in AI-generated content, as seen with AI models like DALL-E and StyleGAN. ” In terms of legality, Chaumette expressed that large companies like Disney and Epic Games might not see AI-generated content as a threat, as it is not copyrightable. .”

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. A comprehensive breakout and applicable use cases can be found below.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Streaming is a growing business, and more companies are looking to stream game content to minimize the end user cost of consoles. Other services scale automatically as well, like Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) which scales slowly with increased traffic, so they need to be considered as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 13, 2025

The Core Thesis Behind the Skillz Content Fund At its heart, the Skillz Developer Accelerator is designed to nurture studios capable of building high-quality, skill-based games. Today, Skillz is a public company with over $300 million on its balance sheet, operating in a sector that has exploded in value. Lets dive in.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

We believe that Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will be fresh and interesting to existing fans, since the game’s narrative and thematic content is very much in line with the Windstorm spirit, so to say. Horse game bubble Looking ahead, Ruppert has high hopes for Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori. “We

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Hardware resource contention : Reducing the thread count can often decrease the pressure on the memory subsystem, reducing latency and enabling the CPU caches to be more efficient. Software resource contention: Locks and atomics can have much higher latency when accessed by many threads concurrently, adding to the memory pressure.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A big part of this strategy was the integration into Light & Wonder , a cross-platform games company known for creating physical slot machines, i-gaming products, and innovative game experiences that connect content, hardware, and systems across platforms and channels. A Balanced Growth Philosophy This doesnt mean SciPlay isnt evolving.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With the technology and tools we’re developing alongside our partners, we want to foster a community for our namesake game that is able to create their own content and benefit from it, and immerse themselves in content that others have made and shared.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In 2023 this increase in content cadence doesnt seem to have any positive effect on the games revenue that continues to slide until late 2023 when the marketing is turned on to 11. The team experimented with everything from esport to UGC and even went as far as removing gacha - only to put it back in. Looking Ahead: IPO on the Horizon?

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

“We’re trying to make it really easy for anyone to be able to build content that’s a lot more user friendly and accessible than the applications that exist today,” says Pinnock. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.”

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AWS Games

JULY 23, 2024

With social interaction central to the gaming experience, demand for user-generated content (UGC) across games is exploding, from Roblox to Fortnite and beyond. Just as no two humans think, talk, or move the same way, many video game development studios and players are of the mindset that digital characters shouldn’t either.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

The Overview could be an actual overview paragraph, a summary section, a Table of Contents, a list of blog articles, or the abstract of an academic article. I moved starting spaces around on the map so they’re more balanced. I broke the hardest roads into two sections for both balance and simplicity.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

Our game design team conceptualizes, implements, and manages gameplay systems that produce addictive game loops, an enjoyable flow state and a risk/reward balance. Balance and challenge A balanced game provides suitable challenges to gamers while ensuring they remain achievable. Game Designers' role in video game mechanics 1.

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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. And no, there are no pathways leading to instant success.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Airships: Conquer the Skies is still going strong on Steam and Stark keeps adding new content to the game to keep the community interested. Solo dev Mario Malagrino “The psychological pressure is the worst part of game development” David Stark has built a living from his debut game that he started 9 years ago.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. To strike a balance, the team aimed to automate as much of the body movements as possible while retaining the meaningful choices that players make while climbing. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted.

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

While it doesn’t match Unreal’s rendering power, it balances quality and performance well for smartphone devices. Advantage Balanced graphics that ensure smooth gameplay across all Android devices. Its active collaborative forums provide extensive support through forums, tutorials, and user-generated content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This success highlights their ability to generate revenue through a balanced mix of IAP and ads. Players are given fewer levers to pull, which forces the design to focus on creating engaging, well-balanced puzzles without relying on extraneous elements to sustain interest. Why have hybridcasual puzzles become successful?

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Even former mainstays like Nintendo titles and Grand Theft Auto have embraced paid DLC, ongoing content drops, and a live service model. Call of Duty's annual release) with regular content updates alongside battle passes, cosmetics, and microtransactions. Everything else is basically a live service or approximates a live service (e.g.

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