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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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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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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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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Game Industry News

MAY 16, 2024

This is part of what Burnham tries to communicate to Ohvahz about the Journey of the Mother Compeer; bringing about the end of the sacrifices doesn’t invalidate the journey but lets the race take on a new meaning, one more in line with what the Halem’nites need as a people.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Racing Games: In contrast, racing games have shown modest growth, especially in regions like India and the Middle East, suggesting emerging markets' potential for specific game types. Apps vs. Games The balance between apps and games in the mobile market is shifting. All it took was Apple's privacy changes.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 2, 2024

Despite her parents being anti-games, she enjoyed racing games on her brother’s old Commodore and formed strategic friendships with kids who had Nintendos. She has had the support of family and friends, and Free Lives’ great company culture has made balancing her roles easy. And as a teen, she befriended those with PS1s.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

Successful games strike a delicate balance by offering a mix of high and low-stakes rewards to keep players engaged consistently. Whether it's a last-one-standing race where only the best can survive or a time-limited challenge to reach a certain number of levels before others, these events always pit you against other players.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 28, 2024

I often complain about modern design being too over-balanced and tight-assed. The "evil" races are a manifestation of the occasional need to fight for our survival, on an individual or national level. It was created back when everything was new and nobody knew how to do anything and all writers just had to navigate by dead reckoning.

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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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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Economy The core loop is the same, however, the progression balancing (potion outputs) has changed. This makes it easier to balance the campaign and matchmake players for Live Events (Lava Quest, Episode/Level Race, etc). Likely to reduce confusion and keep the UI “clean” or easy to parse.

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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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