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Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre

Deconstructor of Fun

New Entrants are Struggling to Break-In While elder games have been fighting over a stagnant TAM of players, new entrants have struggled to gain traction into the market. Within that audience, you then need to create a defensible position via product strategy: Strong differentiation, effective live-service execution, and productive content.

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

The game follows the template of many open-world RPGs, with players invited to freely explore, climb, glide, and fight their way through the vast region of Teyvat as they take on various quests and activities. Genshin Impact’s turn-based TCG minigame, Genius Invocation.

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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek: Lower Decks “The Inner Fight” and “Old Friends, New Planets” Episodes

Game Industry News

In season four’s ninth episode “The Inner Fight,” Mariner makes explicit that her self-sabotage stems from her fear that she’ll become a general who sends young people out to die like Picard was for Sito. She’s perfectly content living according to her Orion mores and values.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My Airships: Conquer the Skies is still going strong on Steam and Stark keeps adding new content to the game to keep the community interested.

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How Riot can Turn Team Fight Tactics into a Billion Dollar Game

Deconstructor of Fun

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. This balance opens the game up to several strategies as to how to play the game. After four months TFT has $.43

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy. Tower of Fantasy also has a balanced PvP mode, Apex League, with a seasonal ranking system and rewards for the best player. This makes interacting with players much easier.

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