PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. Combining these elements with sim mechanics meant we could come up with some exciting, innovative gameplay.” But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. Wu emphasizes the importance of creating a game that strikes a balance between realism and player enjoyment.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of game development , Procedural Content Generation (PCG) has emerged as a transformative force. By utilizing algorithms to create game content dynamically, PCG offers exciting possibilities, from vast, intricate game worlds to unique, personalized player experiences.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Titles like Match Factory , Triple Match 3D , and Tile Busters have successfully carved out space by introducing fresh mechanics to the puzzle category. These games blur the lines between hypercasual simplicity and deeper, more engaging puzzle mechanics. These games are intentionally designed to minimize friction for players.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. Combining these elements with sim mechanics meant we could come up with some exciting, innovative gameplay.” But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. Wu emphasizes the importance of creating a game that strikes a balance between realism and player enjoyment.

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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. Thats why its so important to create games with unique mechanics and story; thats how you stand out, Bakala concluded.

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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. Games that tweak existing mechanics are not enough to break into this entrenched space. We’ve learned that FINALS was not enough.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Not just about content, but also design, production, and presentation. The complexity of player AI, dribbling mechanics, and zonal positioning in football translates into a massive technical challenge for game developers. Developers also have to balance realism and fun, something that Moss found fascinating.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Drawing inspiration from their own experiences in bouldering, the team sought to incorporate the exhilarating mechanics of climbing into the game. There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted.

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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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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

That includes popular games, mechanics, and themes; well-known designers; and how to run a successful Kickstarter. 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. Read the Overview so you so you know what to expect.

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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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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

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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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Game designers must work closely with other development team members, like developers and artists, to guarantee that the video game mechanics and elements work together smoothly. The game mechanics involve matching three or more candies of the same color to smash them. Let’s take the example of Candy Crush again.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. Alien Artifacts.

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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. Game mechanics, for example, cannot be copyrighted so game mechanics are fair to talk about.

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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

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. Graphics may be relatively simplistic but every moment has to be ‘perfect.’

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Between one job and another I always tried to include some type of content related to games. Throughout development, you may often be tempted to include incredible features and mechanics that weren’t originally planned, which can make the project’s completion elusive. Beware of mutant scope.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience. For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems. Ultimately, it seems that the strategy has been around completing the game with side mechanics and not touching the core.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Cogmind’s “ special modes ,” timed events with unique mechanics, can in one sense be seen as the experimental test beds of Cogmind. but to me it wasn’t the sort of tech that the game was ready for, be it for balance, architectural, or lore reasons. One new example of this phenomenon at work is the ID Mask.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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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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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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Sirlin

MARCH 11, 2015

The Pandante: Light & Dark expansion also adds lots of new content. Here's the four types of new content: Use the Light abilities (fun!) If you have never played Pandante before, the new base sets INCLUDE the expansion content built right in. Also, the "last hits" mechanic is removed. Dark abilities with Casino cards?

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

The game and mechanics themselves skew much more casual than the core titles in this comparison, but arguably the game is also slightly more casual than Travel Town and Merge Mansion. The event is balanced to provide easy progression upfront, but it significantly slows down as you approach the end.

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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. This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!)

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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

MAY 20, 2020

The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. HDP chose a “collapse” mechanic as their core (similar to Lily’s Garden, Toy Blast, or Toon Blast). The game responds quickly to input.

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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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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Balance is key Over the years, game developers have understood that finding the right balance between the level of difficulty of a game and the skill of the player is crucial. Analytics has helped our team track a player's progress and pinpoint frustrating levels or game mechanics that may cause them to stop playing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

King, when they ruled the casual puzzle space, chose to expand the breadth of their casual portfolio: Bubble Witch Saga (bubble shooter), Pet Rescue Saga (collapse/blast), Diamond Digger Saga (digging/water flow mechanic), Blossom Blast Saga (linker), Pyramid Solitaire , etc. Golems in action.

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