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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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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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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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Not just about content, but also design, production, and presentation. Developers also have to balance realism and fun, something that Moss found fascinating. There’s a fine line between good, satisfying depth and excessive, tedious depth and designers often struggle to find the right balance point between the two,” he adds.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Creating rewards that players want is the point - we want to make content players want to engage with. It's always a delicate balancing act between monetization, player engagement, player frustration, and the particular exclusivity to drive that engagement.

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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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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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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2023

We've found that the sweet spot for the quality, quantity, and pace of content we can deliver (and also for our financials) is usually a content patch every three months. This way we provide enough content at once that players won't burn through it within moments, while still avoiding crunch and burnout behind the scenes.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 16, 2023

With the availability of educational content, Roblox presents a platform that combines entertainment and learning, making it a valuable resource for parents seeking educational opportunities for their children. It uses automated systems and human moderators to monitor and filter content.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 16, 2024

While playing against better players usually increases skill level over time, it must be balanced against the frustration of that play experience or players on the losing end won't want to come back for more. From the developer perspective, we want players to keep playing the game so that we can keep paying the bills and making more content.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They provide players with a convenient way to start playing, and the longevity of such games hinges on the appeal of their existing content as well as the strategy for delivering and monetizing future updates. Striking the right balance between revenue generation and player experience is essential.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 1, 2024

This is by design, an underpowered new offering is easy for players to ignore and we don't waste resources making post-launch content nobody wants. We want players to keep playing the game and that's only going to happen if the content we add, both paid and free, is compelling.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

These rules might include requirements for certain hardware or software, limits on how games can be designed, or bans on certain types of content. To follow these rules, make sure your game’s content matches the right age group by considering things like violence, sexual content, language, and other sensitive topics.

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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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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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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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Played with Fire

JANUARY 22, 2024

A positive and enjoyable work environment leads to happier and more content team members. Striking a balance While we celebrate the positive aspects, we understand the importance of balance. Striking a balance While we celebrate the positive aspects, we understand the importance of balance.

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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2023

ALT Feedback is different from content. We’re not taking content (or specific ideas for content) that the users created and incorporating that into the game. When we act on feedback, we’re taking the things that players say they like and dislike and incorporating that into our own future designs.

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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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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Each type has its distinct advantages that enable you to strike a balance between visibility as well as user experience. This model allows players to download and play the game for free but charges for additional game features or content. There are various types of ads, like rewarded, playable, banner and interstitial ads.

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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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Game Errors

JULY 23, 2023

So, here are some of the methods you can use to unlock all the items in the game: Progress through the game Utilize cheat codes Mods and custom content Expansion and stuff packs Gallery and online communities 1. Mods and custom content Mods and custom content provide an extensive range of items created by the game’s community.

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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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Game Errors

APRIL 24, 2023

These can be summed up as follows: Your Xbox is configured in a way to put restrictions on content and prevents you from accessing the game servers. How to Fix Roblox Error Code 110 Check the server status Reset your internet connection Switch your DNS Disable content restrictions 1. The game servers are down for maintenance.

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AWS Games

JULY 30, 2024

Instead of experiencing 8-hour downtime every two weeks, fans now simply click on a reconnect message to access the most updated content. Amazon Route 53 was used to direct traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that pointed to a set of microservices hosted in Amazon ECS running on Amazon EC2 instances.

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

. “We’ve definitely just had a return to the office here… But the icing on the cake there is that we did have to return to the office this week, but we’re onto a four-day work week, which is great,” he says, providing a glimpse into the evolving work-life balance within the gaming sphere.

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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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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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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

Its creator hired a bunch of staff, and they've been releasing bunches of new content. 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. Meanwhile, In Vampire Survivors The game made a ton of money. A lot of it free.

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