Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

If you balance things right, the choice isn’t always obvious and will depend on evaluating other factors at the time of the choice. Making a choice without enough context isn’t interesting Have you ever played a game where you had to make a choice really early on (like your character’s race) that had a big effect later that you regretted?

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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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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If you balance things right, the choice isn’t always obvious and will depend on evaluating other factors at the time of the choice. Making a choice without enough context isn’t interesting Have you ever played a game where you had to make a choice really early on (like your character’s race) that had a big effect later that you regretted?

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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. So it’s all about finding a balance between these high costs and high ROAS. Please enjoy the shortened transcribed version of our conversation below.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Likelihood of the prediction: 62% #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. Secondly, these gigantic streaming platforms are engaged in ruthless cutthroat competition for subscribers and content. They focus on empowerment, clarity, efficiency, and work-life balance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained. The new move disrupted this balance. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players. The race then begins to draw and discard until one player positions ten cards in numerical sequence. The game is based off of Rummy, and players complete against one another in a race to complete 10 specific card configurations in order.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Tencent is known to put several of its studios into a race against each other.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

No one was completely happy with how they worked yet, and the balancing of a new card type was proving tricky. Where possible, we wanted to convey that through the cards and make the player feel the happiness and contentment of the world. Race and Class. The Planeswalker team needed more time.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. This might have some very light spoilers, but… honestly, one of my main criticisms is that there isn’t much to spoil in this game, at least not in the 27 or so hours that I played.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

There is also the fact that most of the big crypto investors who got rich through crypto hold most of their balance in Bitcoin. You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? So, it also shows how much the investors are gaining or losing at any given moment.

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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

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Looking ahead, the biggest opportunities I see for growth and innovation in 2025 will center around advancements in AI-driven content creation, new monetization opportunities utilizing e-commerce, loyalty programs, and hybrid casual. Some of the leading platforms include: Midjourney: For high-quality visual content. Poolday.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, it’s more of a question of how you want to balance your creator royalty against the trading volume. Missed a previous newsletter? You can find them all here. ?

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