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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. This method may not be appropriate for every developer, every team, or every game, but it is one I like.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory!

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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. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, you can subscribe here. Now it’s up to you to fill it with a great game & matching business case.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 23, 2023

” It is crucial to ensure that increased visibility translates into meaningful actions, such as click-throughs and sales. For larger releases, the click-through rate tends to be lower due to diminishing returns, while smaller games with less visibility may see higher conversion rates.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. Exploring churn factors within the data The starting point of any machine learning journey is a dataset. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

His turning point came in 2019 at Comic Con Africa, where he discovered a Game Design degree at Wits University’s stand. “I However, it still took a nudge from a dreadful experience in an Applied Mathematics class to propel him to switch from Computer Science to Game Design. Once I started programming, the logic just clicked.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I won’t get into the details of where to go and what to click. Keep your bio to the point.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This is one of the many reasons I think social media is very important for game developers, but to take advantage of these websites to find artists, you don’t even have to be all that active.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The categories are as follows: Hobby Board Games Family Card Games Family Board Games Party Games Game Accessories & Storage Home Décor & Other Gifts Apparel & Funny Gifts.

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AWS Games

JULY 30, 2024

Instead of experiencing 8-hour downtime every two weeks, fans now simply click on a reconnect message to access the most updated content. Initial architecture and challenges The initial architecture for the game followed a common microservice set up in AWS.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Finding that perfect balance is like teaching a pup to sit - it takes practice! They study what clicks with audiences, who are buying tickets, and which genres make cash registers sing. Studios craft their lineups like master chefs, balancing flavors to serve entertainment that satisfies critics and accountants. . +

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iXie gaming

MARCH 25, 2024

The gaming world has evolved significantly over the years. This has resulted in game developers embracing advanced and innovative technologies to maximize player acquisition and retention and stand out. One of the key solutions that developers have integrated to serve their players better is behavior analytics.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

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! We were made aware of a pretty sad bug where the ‘women in tech’ event in the game did not alter the gender balance of job applicants.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AWS provides tools such as AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to automate horizontal scaling and distribute traffic across multiple resources. Additionally, proactive capacity redistribution introduces further delay in restoring balanced backend systems.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

People liked the game but there was also useful feedback (and observation) of where we can improve. Still too much clicking required. The game still requires constant clicking, even more than Diablo, and this is something we’ll have to solve. This dapper fellow thinks there’s too much clicking. Yeah… no luck.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. You just click on them to challenge, and that’s it. It’s intentional that you click once to challenge, they accept, then you are playing. Playing against friends in other fighting games can feel painfully outdated by comparison.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

This is the responsibility of a game backend. Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed AWS service that provides a backend for game developers, allowing them to focus on building their game and leave managing and scaling cloud infrastructure to GameSparks. Click on the blue SampleRealtimeFleet text to inspect the fleet.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Bizarre as all this may sound, this recipe works and the game can be very engaging and fun to play, even if you are not a social casino fan! And this is purely a function of the pay tables in either game. Most definitely, all these supercharged systems of CM need to be weighed against a tightly balanced economy.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad. Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated).

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

When you’ve made an excellent 3D game, you definitely want it to run on more devices, not just high-end ones, as this would mean losing many users. In this article, I will share the methods I’ve learned from over a decade of 3D game development to make a game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices.

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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. Not to mention porting the game to iOS, Android, Switch, and XBox.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

There are also hidden easter eggs with interesting lines and detailed facial expressions if players click on or drag them around. Special effect from clicking on and dragging the Hot Cocoa Cookie. Despite the core gameplay being an integration of two classic types of mobile games, it does not feel out of place for the players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market.

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