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JANUARY 25, 2023

In such situations, it’s important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. while more casual players cannot. Generally, that means the additional performance must come from two things at the pro level - a high bar for execution (e.g.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The initial three founders came together after realizing that existing crypto games — notably CryptoKitties at the time — were unsustainable both technologically and economically. Game Loops and Systems Overview Axie Infinity’s game design falls under the “Turn-based RPG” subgenre, according to GameRefinery’s taxonomy.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

An early esport competition for Starcraft 2 in 2011 awarded a 1 st prize of $500 and a prizes for players in positions 5-8 25 Bitcoin, worth about $25 then and roughly $1.4 Getting any item into any game is a huge endeavour, and really hard. You need to make the asset in the style of the game. And why wouldn’t you.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. Supercell’s portfolio is more balanced and not so heavily reliant on Clash IP, which still brings over 50% of the revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya). And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well. Let’s use the Witch class as an example.

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