Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. The new move disrupted this balance.

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AWS Games

MAY 7, 2024

Palia’s external traffic is routed through a geo-load balanced domain name system (DNS) address to a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Still, there was fear that there were not enough players in alpha tests to accurately simulate launch numbers. Load testing their system was also necessary to ensure a smooth rollout.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

They deploy live operations that surface real-time data and make accurate predictions on players’ actions. You can get an accurate prediction on customer churn without having to hire an entire data science team or take precious time away from your game developers. This can be the difference between failure and success.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2024

Load testing simulates heavy player traffic and mimics peak usage scenarios. Pragma powers services like accounts, matchmaking and player data for the world’s most ambitious live service games. The collection of data and metrics from the system provided real-time visibility into its performance.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Now I’m going to share with you specifically the feedback I got and I’ll tell you how I’m processing it… Step 1 – Gather Data through Surveys. Major fixes include: Event card balancing – no more accidents to completely take your turn away, that just sucks. That’s why it’s so important.

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2024

However, as the number of players being matched increases, the number of potential matches increases exponentially, making the task of creating balanced matches more difficult. We’ll also show you how to test these rule sets by simulating matchmaking using the Amazon GameLift Testing Toolkit.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games. This success highlights their ability to generate revenue through a balanced mix of IAP and ads. Players are given fewer levers to pull, which forces the design to focus on creating engaging, well-balanced puzzles without relying on extraneous elements to sustain interest.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set. With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. An outlier can cause serious problems in statistical analyses. Check everything for grammar and clarity.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

.” In a recent article by The Verge, OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E, announced a new policy that requires artists to grant permission for their work to be used as training data for AI models. AI in Art: Balancing Creativity and Ethics In the realm of digital art, AI technology is stirring up a mix of excitement and controversy.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Live-action productions must capture clean plates, handle green screen setups, and collect technical data for VFX integration. These facilities process huge amounts of data and often render millions of frames for one production. Studios balance quick delivery with quality standards , which often leads to higher costs to speed up work.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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. Also, you may not be able to simulate player behaviors accurately. Imagine being able to create a game by simply inputting a few prompts.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Multithreading and workload balancing No amount of GPU work optimization will overcome a CPU bottleneck. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results. Recommended Balance command list creation and recording across all threads. This should be balanced with the ability to maximize workload overlap on the GPU.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It involves simulating player actions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and keyboard inputs, to evaluate different aspects of game performance, functionality, and compatibility. Game automation tools can also collect data, generate reports, and identify bugs or issues that need to be addressed by game developers.

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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. This feature is especially helpful for online games, which rely on real-time simulations to work successfully. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to simulate the real world.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

It records real actors’ movements and turns them into digital data, making game characters move more realistically. The cameras capture the marker movements, which are then translated into 3D data. Data Processing. The captured data is cleaned up, removing noise and errors. Data Cleanup. Inertial Systems.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

Machine learning algorithms analyze game data, identify patterns, and intelligently generate test cases to cover a wider range of scenarios. Algorithms learn from existing test data to predict potential issues and prioritize testing efforts. Forecasts potential problems before they impact players, based on historical data.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The sheer amount of data and calculations happening behind the scenes of Football Manager 2024 can sometimes lead to unexpected crashes. Additionally, outdated graphics drivers may contribute to suboptimal GPU performance, and the heavy load on the CPU from the game’s intricate simulations can lead to decreased frame rates.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Houdini provides sophisticated node-based workflows for complex environmental simulations and procedural effects generation. Provides flexible data management through direct Excel editing capabilities, enabling teams to customize and refine VFX planning documents. It's where technical precision meets artistic excellence.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The core team's responsibilities include: Managing technical needs for green screenshots Blending practical effects with digital enhancement plans Gathering camera movements and lighting reference data Placing tracking markers correctly Post-Production Workflow Raw footage turns into final VFX shots through a structured post-production process.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The immersive world of Football Manager, with its intricate tactics and realistic simulations, is not just a virtual playing field. Also, when the hardware falls short, the game struggles to load the intricate football simulation, resulting in extended loading times or freezes. Purchase compatible RAM sticks.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

For guidance on how to balance ray tracing and performance, we have a variety of webinars and other content that you can learn from. Deep learning can be used to complement ray tracing, “filling in” missing information with plausible interpolated data, such as with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). Eric: Yes, in many ways.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Therefore, Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s similar but improved art style with a casual Build & Harvest and in-depth RPG gameplay makes it easier to win over adult players, which is supported by the user data. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists. It’s a life simulator game where you navigate through menus to manage your character. Data can tell you a story of its own. Is this a safe choice? What’s the risk like? Is my character in danger? Conflict: 10/10. Change: 10/10.

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Filmustage

MARCH 27, 2025

Industry-standard data reveals that a single minute of screen time typically requires 120 minutes of shooting time - meaning a 15-minute production could demand over 30 hours on set. It's crucial to balance quantity with quality, ensuring enough time for proper setup and execution of complex effects. While standard scenes may run 1.5

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Genre-Specific Losers: Arcade, Action and Simulation Games crushed by CPI increase: These genres have seen substantial drops, around 16% year-on-year, indicating a decline in user interest or market saturation. Yet the data on how much of the revenue is offset by webstores is scarce. All it took was Apple's privacy changes.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

On reviewing the data I’m happy to see that my game-to-non-game-stuff work ratio has continued in my preferred direction (I shared a graph and more info about this trend back in the 2020 review ), so more working on the game itself and less community-facing marketing-type stuff. A sample entry from aoemica’s new wiki.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Document camera data, lighting conditions, and set measurements. Balances colors, adjusts lighting, and fine-tunes details for realism. Its robust rigging and simulation features empower filmmakers to achieve complex animations efficiently, reducing the time and effort needed for iteration while maintaining high-quality results.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

You need a game backend that provides management of player identity and storage of player data, and a way to communicate with the game backend from your game. One of the most important things that we need is a service to keep track of players and their data, and allow them to initiate matchmaking requests. CurrentPlayer().Id();

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Game Designing

JUNE 14, 2022

Yet, that’s not where Epic Games’ story ends, because the technology they have developed is also used in manufacturing, architecture, the automotive industry, and numerous simulation technologies. However, one of the key components that many current and former Epic Games employees noted was that there was a lack of work and life balance.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Additionally, while searching for fixes, I’ve also discovered that the game won’t launch because of: System Requirements Strain: Football Manager 2024’s intricate database and real-time simulations can strain your system, leading to launch issues. Check your motherboard’s manual for guidance on installing RAM.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. They can also simulate fur, feathers, fabric, skin, fat, and rigid body dynamics. CG Spectrum's 2022 Houdini FX student showcase.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

This focused environment helps us collect specific feedback from different types of players, finding bugs, balance issues, and usability problems that we might have missed earlier. We simulate extreme situations to find potential crashes, memory leaks, and slowdowns.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

In my opinion, classes are a fantastic feature : They add a layer of gameplay depth in deck building and usage that was much needed in Mini , while simultaneously providing a great balancing tool to give relevance to specific sets of units and discourage unbalanced combinations, and a great incentive to acquire all units belonging to a Class.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 4, 2022

We used a counter-balanced randomized order and each participant had the option to decline or stop participating at any point if they chose. We performed a pairwise t test on this data, indicating that the difference in these means is statistically significant for the 900 trials that we included in the analysis ( p -value=0.000325).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

All the data is derived from Sensor Tower’s fantastic data plarform. Clash of Clans has shown unprecedented staying power by staying in the top 10 grossing since 2012 (data: Sensor Tower). This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

If we can describe what makes certain problems interesting in this particular way then we may learn something about “interestingness” in general, about the difference between data and meaning. Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. The human brain itself may demonstrate a similar structure.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data from the best in business, Sensor Tower. In 2019 Tycoon games, which are sub-genre of the simulation genre, grew revenue by 22%. Order rewards are balanced between the time it takes to manufacture them and the XP and the Coins. All revenue is net. source: Sensor Tower. to make the gameplay smoother over time.

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