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

JUNE 13, 2023

However, balancing a three-faction card game is quite difficult,” Devine shared. Devine employs the solution to monitor gameplay traffic on a local workstation for debugging. By viewing the logs on the local workstation in real-time, Devine was able to easily identify the problem and fix it.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In addition, if the game is not evolving or developing quickly enough for players, live operations to keep up with content demands could require further investments. How much should you localize versus culturalize? So it’s all about finding a balance between these high costs and high ROAS.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

We test everything, including character customization, skill trees, multiplayer interactions, and endgame content. Content Testing While how a game works is very important, a great gaming experience is more than just its mechanics and systems. By the end of alpha testing, we have found and fixed many of the game’s problems.

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Filmustage

APRIL 10, 2023

They balanced the entire setup so that the camera was held by the third hand attached to the waistcoat, while the camera was pointed in the right direction with the cinematographer's hands. On the other hand, the affordability of licensed content these days cannot be overlooked.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

On the 8th September I was very grateful to have the opportunity to speak at my local security/hacker conference DC151 in Leeds. And since compliance is a local issue, it boils down to this: “Do it our way, and it’s free. We’ve tipped the balance of the scales in terms of cost.

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Game Errors

MARCH 8, 2023

The general advance here is experimenting with different Avatar Performance and Advanced Graphics settings to find the balance where the game runs smoothly, without crashes, with enjoyable graphics. Select Clear Download Content Cache. Select Clear Local Avatadar Data and confirm by selecting Yes.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Whether it was London or Helsinki, local networks were sufficient for finding talent. However, with the rise of mobile gaming around 2010, the industry expanded rapidly, making it clear that relying solely on local connections could mean missing out on exceptional candidates. Understanding these motivations is key for headhunters.

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Game Errors

JUNE 10, 2023

Restart your PC Run a speed test to check your internet speed Table of contents: Update your Graphics Drivers Verify Game Files Set the Game to High Priority Choose high-power options Adjust Windows settings 1. Click on Local Files in the left pane. Update your Graphics Driver Time needed: 4 minutes. Go to the Details tab.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Releasing your game on several platforms increases your sales, generating ongoing revenue from downloadable content and in-game purchases, among other game monetization strategies. Localization and Certification We live in an interconnected world. So, when porting the game, ensure it is accurately localized for the target audience.

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Table of contents: Why is Alaskan Road Truckers experiencing low FPS? Adjust the In-game Settings Finding a balance for the game settings made my FPS significantly better, and they also improved my overall performance. Select Properties , then Local Files. Sometimes, this passion for detail can result in unexpected FPS drops.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

CASHING OUT: The actual Stars balance a game publisher earns can be reinvested in ads promoting the app , which in theory cuts out a lot of the “middle man” costs necessary for a publisher to pay in standard mobile gaming. The game will usually express the price in the in-app store in local currency (USD, Euros, etc.),

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Also, game patches not only bring new content but also optimizations that can significantly improve how the game runs on my system, often smoothing out any rough edges in performance. Verify Files : Under the Local Files tab, click on Verify integrity of game files. Game Library : Go to your game library and find the game.

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Game Errors

MARCH 31, 2023

Table of contents: Update your graphic drivers Run the game as an administrator Change NVIDIA Control Panel Switch to Auto Settings in Video Verify game files Set High Performance in Power Options 1. Continue to adjust the settings until you find a balance between visual quality and performance.

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Game Errors

MARCH 27, 2023

Table of contents: Update your GPU drivers Close Background Tasks Update the game Set High Performance Verify the Integrity of Game Files Enable Game Mode Uninstall and Reinstall your GPU drivers 1. Then select the Balanced , High performance , Power saver , or Ultimate Performance radio button to change your plan. Navigate to Library.

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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. Spectating a dangerous game of hot grenade with the local opposing Demo squads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. Petrovic rounded out the panel by adding that Turkish companies must start to look outside local talent and look more globally, using Gram Games’ international offices as a good example.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In the game, you run your own farm, create your own products, and sell to the local community through your own small business. 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. As to be expected from Miniclip.

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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!) With backtracking, developers have the unfortunate task of addressing “stair dancing,” or repeatedly using stairs as an easy escape option, even as part of localized combat tactics. Do enemies follow through stairs?

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

You can play single-character matches or team battles, just like in local play. Even if a game were impossibly well balanced and had like 100 matchups that were all 5-5, but 20 matchups that were 6-4 or 7-3, then you’d hardly ever play the 5-5 ones compared to the other ones, even though at first glance MOST of the game is the fair ones.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prerequisites To deploy the solution, you are expected to create an AWS account , create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) User , install AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) , and configure AWS credentials on your local system. Docker needs to be running prior to starting any terminals.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Here, it feels rushed, but despite that relatively minor criticism, “Strange Energies” successfully strikes the balance between calling back to a previous season and promising new things for the coming season that makes for a great season premiere. The episode would land better if we actually saw more of that.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Over the years, Supercell’s portfolio has become slightly more balanced, with other games than the Clashes bringing in a more significant portion of the revenue. Supercell’s portfolio is more balanced and not so heavily reliant on Clash IP, which still brings over 50% of the revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

For stuff like gameplay balance and feature implementation we have equal input and chime up if there’s something we feel strongly about. Not only does this save a ton of texture memory and reduce draw calls, but it also sped up the creation process of parts, but admittedly at some cost of visual fidelity.”

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. SPOILER WARNING: This post spoils what happens in my new game That Lonesome Valley.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. This marks its true public release, with finished graphics, gameplay, tuning, more sex, and finally an ending.

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