Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. Well known indie dev ( Vlambeer ) Rami Ismail developed a ready-made pitch template , with the help of several indie studios of all sizes, and professionals working at two dozen publishers. for more useful resources and tips.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

These four nostalgic game mechanics are: Dynamic character roles Great art or colors Incorporates a clicking noise Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety. Person with the highest point count wins. Point counts are gathered from points played on your character and/or how advantageously you marry. That’s me from our date!

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Period, point blank. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? You’d mostly be right to think that, too.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! This is to make sure the game is – on some fundamental level – balanced. Brandon: Later, once you start doing private testing, a lot of balance issues start coming out of the rules. I ended up implementing a light action point system to increase number of player choices.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

After months of toiling in a secluded attic, the last weeks of which were particularly grueling, we finally took Second Hand to its first public showings: first to Dev-Play in Bucharest and shortly thereafter to Clujotronic in our very own Cluj. It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Color me excited!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

Start clicking on bios and seeing who is active, available, and looking for work. Very few will get past this stage, and at that point, it is fair to ask about price. At this point, you’ll soon find yourself in a discussion about payment amounts and schedules, contracts, and royalties. Key Takeways for Game Devs.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Description from Board Game Geek. Splendor – $38.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

As promised, to celebrate the release of the iOS and Google Play version of Game Dev Tycoon, we’ve now updated the Desktop versions of the game. You can click on them to read the message (or right-click to dismiss them). If you want to quickly browse the topic list now just click, drag, and flick it! Women in Tech.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, once the game attracts more players, we may want to modify our matchmaking to provide our players with a more balanced and fun play experience. Click on the blue SampleRealtimeFleet text to inspect the fleet. To set up the GameSparks game backend by importing a snapshot JSON file, navigate to the game’s “Dev” stage.

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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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Head on over to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast or click on the episode below! But beyond that point, Clash Mini sank in the charts. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney. No reason to play leagues…).

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 20, 2022

I mean, part of why I can’t believe that is that for almost a full year after the launch, I was furiously updating the game: two new factions, a new game mode (arguably two), a map editor, tons and tons of balance changes, polishing, bugfixes, you name it. I also think, actually all told, the whole dev process was pretty darn short.

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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!) Expanding on that, the designer now also has reliable points at which to determine specifically what the player has and has not done by then, a fact that won’t change going forward. A DCSS dungeon map linked from the wiki.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. Ability to convert a Spatial Shader (or Shader Graph) to code in a single click, to customize it or learn how it works. Balancing pros and cons, it's probably not worth implementing it, but the door is open for it. Ability to bundle shaders inside materials.

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