PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2024

In a church filled with diverse races, I was exposed to lots of different people even when it wasn’t allowed in South Africa.” To balance work and family life, Bowden prioritizes weekends for quality time with his family where they enjoy outdoor activities in Cape Town. Bowden grew up in Durban.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 28, 2020

Another task that required a lot of attention was balancing the game. Sometimes it really was a race against the clock, as each feature required loads of tests and tweaks in order to provide the best experience possible for the players. Summing up, working on Little Racer from the designer’s perspective was quite an adventure.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Anything with “evil race has come to the land” Demons, orcs, whatever, is all bad, because these are all stand in for “people” There is a way you can do it where it comes off as more of a “force of nature”, almost like a huge storm or something, which is an improvement. Let’s get into the list.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

We’re also looking at the multiplayer experience for our online competitive mode: pennant race. We want to make certain the game is making quality, balanced matches, and pairing players of similar abilities to create exciting outcomes.”

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Game Errors

JULY 21, 2023

Mon Bazou (free translation from French – my crappy car) is a game about earning money by doing odd jobs to turn your junk car into a real racing car. Change Power Plan To improve your Mon Bazou performance during high-intensity gameplay, consider switching from Balanced mode to High-Performance mode in Power Options.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Idle Games have seen renewed growth with IP-driven games like The Office and RuPaul Drag Race, which are both keeping up their revenues despite the decline in downloads. So it's a fine balance between these high costs and also a higher return on ad spend. MID-CORE GAMES Mid-Core games are a very diverse category.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Many superhero blockbusters use a combination of these two techniques to achieve the perfect balance between naturalness (as much as it is possible in movies about superhumans) and fantasy. Car Chases & Racing. Captain Marvel” (2019) is a very cool example of the combination of Wires & Turning Fork.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If you balance things right, the choice isn’t always obvious and will depend on evaluating other factors at the time of the choice. Making a choice without enough context isn’t interesting Have you ever played a game where you had to make a choice really early on (like your character’s race) that had a big effect later that you regretted?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. Acquiring more Leader tiles gives the player more to try to balance. The Race to the Finish. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Also, they provide crucial feedback on game balance, user interface (UI), and gameplay. These genres may include platformers, action-adventure, racing titles, and role-playing games. These testers spend many hours playing unreleased and new Nintendo games.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

QQ Speed An arcade racer implementing TCG mechanics The first game on our list is QQ Speed , an arcade racing game with a manga-inspired art style that’s been very successful in the Chinese market. These mechanics are unconventional for a racing game but aren’t surprising.

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Game Industry News

APRIL 6, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS As the action amps up, you can really tell that Star Trek: Picard ’s final season is racing into the endgame. As such, it feels more like an episode of TNG than perhaps any episode we’ve seen yet without losing that particular Picard gloss.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

We’ll be using a sample game that you might be familiar with if you’ve played around with GameLift earlier: the Mega Frog Race Unity game that was first introduced on this AWS Game Tech blog a while ago. Another important part of session-based multiplayer games like Mega Frog Race is matchmaking. Game client – Unity.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since the game was released, gamers worldwide have been racing to learn as many BG3 facts as possible. This release was not ordinary, so we decided to collect the most exciting information about it, the company behind it, and everything else surrounding this adventure RPG. A 2023 game with no in-game purchases?!

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It’s a bit of a balancing act, finding that sweet spot between visuals and playability, and it could potentially fix the won’t launch issue in The Invincible. It just performs better in the race for graphics processing. Click on the Verify Integrity of Game Files button and wait for the process to complete.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Nancy is the Head of User Acquisition and Growth Strategy at East Side Games , a publisher known for IP-driven hit games such as “The Office,” “Trailer Park Boys,” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” So it’s all about finding a balance between these high costs and high ROAS.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. That’s a flaw in a racing game. An outlier can cause serious problems in statistical analyses. “ In English, that means that the more times you do something, the more weird stuff you’ll see.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

It's important for the event design not to simply rely on a balance which becomes harder at the end of the event, but instead offer the player a more complex and difficult task based on pre-existing mechanics. So this choice brings this event the needed level of complexity. This way, we can engage the player for longer.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Game developers look for ways to improve online multiplayer experience while balancing availability and cost effectiveness. We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. Build containerized game servers with AWS Developer tools.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained. The new move disrupted this balance. Rapid and Constant Beats the Race There are many ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Likelihood of the prediction: 62% #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. They focus on empowerment, clarity, efficiency, and work-life balance. Work-life balance and empowerment are undoubtedly important for any game studio to compete for talent.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Significant Revenue Growth Over the last month, Legend Of Mushroom has raced up the top-grossing chart to a top 10 spot, largely due to revenue growth in the Tier 1 Asian countries of Japan and South Korea. To compound on that, the items that you unlock don’t always translate well to guaranteed progression.

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Game Industry News

JULY 8, 2021

One assumes that the Wadi have some understanding of diplomacy as a spacefaring race, so surely, Falow can understand that their Chula causes the Alpha Quadrant contingent real concern. Joel Brooks gives Falow just the right balance of silliness and menace. Why he chooses not to alleviate same remains a mystery.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The episode does a solid job of maintaining the tension, mostly due to the arbitrarily created deadline, but there’s never any real question as to whether the DMA will destroy the colony or if the balance of the prisoners will accompany Burnham and Book to Discovery. Hopefully, “Stormy Weather” will offer a bit more in the way of progress.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. I’ve used them all a handful of times and never got one to work, so, I just don’t use them. You can date in this game, but only women, because Adachi is a man. That would be bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

There is also the fact that most of the big crypto investors who got rich through crypto hold most of their balance in Bitcoin. You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? So, it also shows how much the investors are gaining or losing at any given moment.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

There’s a myth about an ancient race that had powerful magic as well as advanced technology beyond even our own, but then they disappeared from the realm. They are now able to exist in our time, which shifts the balance of power in the realm significantly. They are called the Vortoss.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players. The race then begins to draw and discard until one player positions ten cards in numerical sequence. The game is based off of Rummy, and players complete against one another in a race to complete 10 specific card configurations in order.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

No one was completely happy with how they worked yet, and the balancing of a new card type was proving tricky. Race and Class. Since the cards all had two types, and each race would be confined to only a few classes, new possibilities would open up for existing decks when the class tribal cards showed up in Morningtide.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Liberal players might try to "balance" a police presence with "limited gayness", queer or anarchist players might prune all the police entirely, and Tory players might engineer a cringe garden consisting solely of police and high street retail, etc. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s just no way to balance a game with that much variability, and I was afraid to put my thumb on the scale and start covertly killing off rulers who had overstayed their time on the throne. At competitive difficulty levels, VPs serve as a dynamic game timer that the player is racing against to fulfill their ten ambitions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. PUBG Mobile was developed by Tencent’s Light Speed studio while Timi, who allegedly also was in a race to develop PUBG Mobile, ended up making Call of Duty. Why does Call of Duty Mobile retain so well?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It launched to little fanfare in Korea but it became the de facto FPS standard in China thanks to a massive focus on continuous releases of new (and often left-field) modes (ranging from bike racing to ‘soccer with knives’) and extravagant, overpowered, expensive weapons and outfits catering to local taste.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

The low entry barrier creates a race to the bottom where publishers will need to compete for developers on the basis of revenue share. The more often the result of both progressions competes with the game’s balancing, the more engaging a game will feel.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Volumetric fog is making its first appearance in Godot 4, balancing a realistic look and fast performance, thanks to the use of temporal reprojection. This change aims to address various popping issues, race conditions, and overall poor resampling behavior.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. 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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