AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Managing live games requires a balance of retaining mature players with evergreen content, personalizing offers, attracting new players, and getting them into your core loop as quickly as possible.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. You need it for five reasons: It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense. It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I’ve spoken before about designing and testing the “Core Engine” of a game. The core engine is what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The podcast unfolds an engaging conversation that delves into the challenges aspiring entrepreneurs face, the distinguishing traits of successful founders, and the timeless topic of work-life balance. This means honing in on a single hypothesis, swiftly generating prototypes for immediate feedback, and meticulously collecting data.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, balancing his fifth year as a Computer Engineering student and a pivotal role at Avalon, an American-based software company was no small feat. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA. That laptop became his digital playground. My teacher was proud and very happy.”

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Tech-wise, it's a vertical slice "learn Unreal 4" project, a big shift from a studio that used to roll its own in-house engine.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He started his journey as a trained Petroleum Engineer but discovered his true passion for Data Science during his final year at Covenant University. “I The next game, Nouns Attack, is in development As a child, Ikpeme excelled in science, earning the title of best Junior Engineer in Training (JET) at his club.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Prototyping This stage involves prototyping different ideas including level layout design, character design, gameplay elements and mechanics, and other core concepts, before finalizing them for the cemented stage of the game production process. Create the right balance of challenge and reward throughout the game.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They must be familiar with game engine capabilities and the technical limitations of the assigned platforms. They must possess a comprehensive knowledge of prototyping, testing, programming, and development techniques to craft a seamless gaming experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

That makes them the closest thing in games to a rock supergroup: Maya Kylmamaa (Game Lead, Engineer) , was CEO of the now defunct Reforged Studios (a Helsinki studio focused on AAA strategy games). She previously was Technical Lead at League of Legends and a Software Engineer at several expansions of World of Warcraft , among others.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D modelers: Maya ZBrush Blender Mari Substance Painter Unreal Engine (and other real-time engines) Houdini 3D modeling jobs in the industry 3D modelers are sought after in film, games, and virtual production, as well as beyond the creative industries in areas such as product design and 3D visualization.

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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. Haussila added that investments in Supercell ID, its own game engines, social graph, and data tools will hopefully spark innovation and new ideas.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

We’ve only playtested it about 5-6 times – each time it was a blast , despite the balance being all wonked up – so I don’t want to get too deep into the details right now. Part of the inherent “engine” of a card game is drawing cards from a deck and hoping to get a good hand. This sounds stupid.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! 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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

A quick recap: game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life. When I first complete my rapid prototype, I call this Phase 1. This is where I start to dive into balancing mechanical choices with regards to elements of the game, like spaces on the board for worker placement or card abilities in a card game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Similar to Today’s: Current level setup (clear objectives in X moves or less) Mode: Balance Description: Collect 2 colors of gems roughly at the same pace. Developers must find the harmonious balance between ‘too easy’ and ‘pure frustration’. No similar exists today Mode: Avalanche Description: Gems fall randomly to fill the board.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

There's sort of engineering led companies, there's sort of business led companies and their sort of creative led companies. So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. They get to a prototype level.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Post launch, those were replaced by a re-engineered version of “Crew Expendable” from the original MW. It was not uncommon to assume that a better designed map or finely balanced mode that took three times as long as competition would eventually win the day.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

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