PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Things were getting serious three years later when Ryding decided to quit his job as a software engineer and work full time as a game developer. One of my close friends, Ches Denison, joined me working 5-10 hours a week as a playtester, game designer, and just a general jack-of-all-trades-guy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Integrating IAP into traditionally ad-driven games requires rethinking game design and player experience, proving that hybrid monetization demands more than simply adding IAP options. While some players are willing to pay for exclusive content, others prefer progressing through rewarded ads.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 25, 2024

This data includes player preferences, interactions, and in-game actions, to mention a few. By analyzing player behavior data, you can gain valuable insights that can help improve the gaming experience and player engagement and optimize game design. The outcome? A more satisfying and engaging gameplay. The outcome?

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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

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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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This episode is sponsored by Autodesk AU 2023 | November 13-15 in Las Vegas ⁠ ⁠ My conversation with Brian Canary, a seasoned game designer, reveals the intricacies of the industry’s shifting dynamics. Collaboration and Single-Player Game Resurgence The discourse delves deep into the essence of game design—collaboration.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 31, 2023

When creating a game, game app developers analyze player behavior to improve their interactive scenarios, by identifying what works and what doesn't for the players in a game. This is done to refine the game design and create a more enjoyable experience for their audience. Optimize game performance 3.

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

CEO and founder Sean Pinnock acknowledges that the company’s core offering is a game engine, albeit one made from the ground-up to help resolve Web3 game development’s most pressing challenges. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.”

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

Tracks game performance and player behavior in real time, alerting teams to issues as they arise. Gauges player reactions to new features or content, helping developers make informed decisions. In game development , where time equals money, AI is a great financial benefit. Real-Time Monitoring and Reporting. Sentiment Analysis.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

Both about game design, and about the indie games biz as a whole. Brotato has a great design. I’m sure they care about their game, but this title makes it seem like they don’t. Meanwhile, In Vampire Survivors The game made a ton of money. Steam Workshop could do INSANE things with this game.)

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability: As game complexity and scope increase, the number of tests required also grows. 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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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Moreover, AI algorithms analyze vast amounts of data, including player behavior and preferences, to create personalized and adaptive gaming experiences. AI-driven tools generate dynamic content, adapt game mechanics, and customize aesthetics, resulting in more engaging gameplay and new storytelling possibilities.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 22, 2024

This is when information architecture and interaction design became essential in UX practice. The 2000s and 2010s brought in digital content on screens of various sizes and resolutions, hence responsiveness gained in significance. With UX taking centre-stage, could user-centered design be far behind?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Mobile game designers who are focused on in-app monetization know that this genre offers long-term objectives and quest progression that require either hours of time or currency spent to make meaningful progress. 38 percent enjoy a regular roll-out of new features and content updates.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

The fact that Battle Passes have been successful on audiences so alien to each other like MOBAs and Match-3 Puzzle fans shows how versatile its design can be. Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience.

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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. What does a game designer do?

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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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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. Fortunately, when you get tired of a certain sort of content, you can skip it. Treat yourself.

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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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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Every aspect of the game’s development has been thoughtfully considered, from ensuring each card has a rich backstory to using a low carbon footprint blockchain and efficient cloud-based technologies like Amazon GameLift on Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, balancing a three-faction card game is quite difficult,” Devine shared.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. Today, I’ll go into some more specific implementation principles that designers can use while crafting their choices in order to get the player thinking.

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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. Want to learn game development? I’ve updated the game to Version State Route 8, and it’ll probably be State Route 9 by tomorrow.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Augmented Reality (AR) AR is becoming increasingly prevalent in hyper-casual games. This technology is revolutionizing the gaming experience by bringing the real world into the game, making it more interactive and immersive. Monetization Monetizing hyper-casual games is a major challenge for developers.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously community interaction is quite important and still plays an ongoing role in development, as always, but at this point I feel it’s more important to focus on expanding content as much as possible. Read more about its design here on the blog. So we’re done, right? Ready to do that Beta 12 map?

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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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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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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And if I, a game designer, can't enjoy fun, what am I even doing here? People who really understand the art form and are familiar with all of the works in contention. It’s more fun to like things than not like things. Awards are a silly, meaningless thing to love. Turning the glorious world of art into a tacky competition?

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. Today, I’ll go into some more specific implementation principles that designers can use while crafting their choices in order to get the player thinking.

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

Penny was kind enough to share her experience at GDC and why she believes it's such a valuable event for people looking to break into the games industry. GDC is an annual event that brings together programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders from around the world.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Well I don’t really want* to go as far as creating a full-blown in-game design system with a dedicated interactive UI like you might find in some sort of RTS or games with a vehicle design element. in order to force them to use alternatives, either from their inventory or provided by Cogmind.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Supercell’s previous entry, Spooky Pop, had a lot of design mistakes that prevented it from competing with the Saga model. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market. Florian Steinhoff has a great GDC talk about the balance of levels here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The principles and design tenets he acquired in architecture seamlessly blended into his game design. ” He subtly points to the age-old debate about work-life balance and the perceived differences between American and European professional cultures. They’re not locked in right out of college.”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Making Early Content. Be sure to consider your Content Mix when you are backdating posts and scheduling future ones. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Core Loop and Gameplay Every game that raises the bar in an established genre does so by capitalizing on at least 2 elements of the framework described by Mark Pincus at Zynga as ‘Proven-Better-New’. Proven : The first merge games in the app stores were the immensely popular 2048 and the game design darling Triple Town (also by Neskin).

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

I've been trying to get good at game design for almost 30 years. It is a very cool fight with very cool design. That so much craft and care went into content this far in shows admirable dedication on the part of the developers. This is the best known, most-feared fight in the game because it breaks the rules.

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