AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Every aspect of the game’s development has been thoughtfully considered, from ensuring each card has a rich backstory to using a low carbon footprint blockchain and efficient cloud-based technologies like Amazon GameLift on Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, balancing a three-faction card game is quite difficult,” Devine shared.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

By doing this, your game can be released in more places and has a better chance to earn more money. Compliance testing shows that you care about responsible game design, fair monetization, and protecting player data. This builds player loyalty, making them not only enjoy your games but also recommend them to others.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Who is bucking the trend: The Merge Games genre downloads continue to decline as scaling up for these games became very difficult due to the unlimited amount of new entrants and privacy changes. What’s really noticeable in the Merge Mansion’s stride is the investment into the narrative in both game design and the creatives.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

PlayStation game testers provide detailed feedback on the gameplay, controls, game balance, and user interface, helping improve the final product. Therefore, you must familiarize yourself with the game design documents and understand the intended gameplay mechanics. This applies to games as well.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface. What is Gold Master (GM) testing?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As a fervent explorer of virtual worlds, I delved into finding solutions to elevate the gaming experience, and here’s what I’ve unearthed to help you combat those framerate struggles. Interesting fact Intricacies of game design, like those in Broken Roads, demand robust hardware performance.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

RIF Installers were already a prefab to begin with, one which (without precedent anywhere else in the game) were actually inserted via a separate hard-coded method, so let’s add it as an encounter instead. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Thanks to these localization efforts as well as Gingerbread (the protagonist) being a character that originated from Western traditions and fantasy, Cookie Run: Kingdom became a hit in the North America market. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. Such a model could also inform our discussions about game design, suggesting directions for design exploration and expanding our palette of analytical tools and techniques. How to avoid the trap of a local maximum in solution space?

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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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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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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We checked out a new local game store where we discovered Dominion. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. It would feel terrible.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

You can play single-character matches or team battles, just like in local play. Playing against friends in other fighting games can feel painfully outdated by comparison. The very specific way it works is actually innovative and is a general contribution to game design that many other games could use.

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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!) and is likely to either become a player crutch or lead to tedious optimal play (a topic I covered in my game design philosophy article ). Do enemies follow through stairs? from one side of the map to the other).

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. Because the dialogue happens at the same time as the walking, I felt I had to keep the other game systems relatively simple too or else it would feel overwhelming. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. It already feels so fraught to me.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Level Design Layout, place, trigger, volume, spawn, point, reward, treasure, quest, lighting, light, dark, texture, object, obstacle, blocking, whitebox, direct, draw, through, inviting, space, place, multiplayer, competitive, cooperative, co-op, deathmatch, capture the flag, ctf, domination, asymmetric, symmetric.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Sound Design Intern (Remote!) Brush up your resume and focus on any game dev work you’ve done. Amateur game dev work counts! Tabletop game mastering counts! Amateur board and card game design counts! Game jam work counts! Technical Artist Intern (Remote!)

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

"Cruising Labyrinth," Andreas Angelidakis Lindell was responding to a specific social context: the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic that utterly devastated the gay male community in New York City, especially the local sex clubs and bathhouses. This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes.

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