iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

By following the do’s and avoiding the don’ts, you can ensure that your game stands out in the competitive PC gaming market. In this guide, we will cover a range of topics, including best practices for game design, effective marketing strategies, and tips for optimizing game performance.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

Come “behind-the-scenes” with AWS GameTime Each episode is hosted live and our Twitch viewers get the chance to directly chat with the creators and game industry veterans of their favorite games. The casual interview setting is the perfect way to ask lots of questions about their game design and game development process.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Testing your game before releasing it to the public is crucial. It helps you identify, document, and mitigate defects and bugs in your video game. This improves the game’s overall performance, stability, and security. Also, game testing increases the chances of your game’s success. And how does it work?

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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The game development process typically includes designing the game’s concept, characters, and mechanics, followed by programming to implement functionality and create interactivity. Quality assurance and testing ensure the game functions as intended, and ongoing updates may address bugs or introduce new content.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Testing is crucial in game developmen t because even a small bug can lead to negative reviews, lost sales, and a damaged reputation. We’ve built expert QA teams and developed our own tools to handle game testing challenges effectively. Core Functionality Testing Alpha testing focuses on the core features of the game.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Also, it may involve reviewing new games for potentially significant bugs and glitches before releasing them to the public. But why is Xbox game testing important? And what are some Xbox game testing best practices by us? Why is Xbox Game Testing Important? This improves your game’s overall quality.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Let me quickly explain how the game worked in broad strokes, and then I can explain the main problem.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

Modern games are very complex, and with tight deadlines and limited resources, even the best QA teams can miss important bugs and glitches. A solution that not only meets the demands of game development but also finds issues that humans might miss. Enhanced Bug Detection. Neural Networks. Sentiment Analysis.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Early Days of Game Testing: A Humble Beginning In the early days, game testing was a rudimentary process, often conducted by the developers themselves or a small group of testers. Games like Pong and Pac-Man represented the era where simplicity was key, and so was the testing. What is game testing, and why is it important?

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iXie gaming

APRIL 4, 2024

Ensuring your video game is bug-free and reliable is crucial in today’s fast-paced gaming world. To achieve this, you must conduct thorough game testing throughout the game development process. It helps ensure the new code changes do not introduce bugs. But how does it help in game testing ?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It involves simulating player actions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and keyboard inputs, to evaluate different aspects of game performance, functionality, and compatibility. Game automation tools can also collect data, generate reports, and identify bugs or issues that need to be addressed by game developers.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Why Will Make Your Android Game Better? Innovative Gameplay Your game will stand out if you design it with exciting and original gameplay. You must think creatively to develop mechanics that surprise and excite the gamer. You should adjust your game for various hardware, screen sizes, and input methods.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This means one must be skilled enough to identify issues often affecting PlayStation game performance, gameplay, and more. But what does a PlayStation game tester do? Testers replicate the identified bugs and glitches to understand how they occur and devise strategies to prevent them from occurring in the future.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Building hyper-casual games is a great way to get into game development. With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry. How to get started.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

First of all, most of the new features still have significant bugs and performance problems that will not be solved in time for the upcoming 4.0 Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging. Scenes, as mentioned before, are designed for complex high level behaviors in the hundreds of instances.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Well, personalized game content improves player engagement and promotes longer playtimes. Game Testing and Bug Detection Testing your game is crucial to ensuring its success once it is launched. It helps you detect bugs and glitches that may negatively impact the players’ gaming experience.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

A computer science degree teaches computer languages which is essential when designing games. Game designers must know various coding languages to create levels, interactions, progression, etc. Computer science in gaming will help you develop games. They turn the designer’s vision into a reality.

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Yobob Games

OCTOBER 10, 2020

You can even catch bugs and trade them in to the gods for materials. But for the most part, the game is enjoyably fun. I was having fun playing with my own game! I’m still not satisfied with the game mechanics in terms how much there are present in the game, but I will be adding a few more.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Once your game is done, GDevelop lets users publish their games to PC, Web, and Mobile platforms. GDevelop is designed for ease of use with a particular focus on beginner game designers and education. Create A Game Without Programming Skills. GDevelop Beginner Tutorials.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. Actual surprises are costly, they create bugs and instability, they create imbalances.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

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. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area. How do you overcome those?

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 12, 2004

Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren't really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. Knock it off! Backwards Puzzles.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 11, 2004

Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren’t really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. ” A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. Knock it off!

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t go heavy on realism, in which case backtracking for this reason can be considered a non-issue and solely a decision to be made within the greater mechanical design, though this does mean progress ends up feeling gamier overall. Design Control. Birth options menu during Angband character creation.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Find a Mechanic who may be hanging around a Repair Station. Cogmind’s Strictly Static Items. Low on treads or armor?

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Gunther Rehfeld, author of the german book “Game Design und Produktion”  from 2014, mentions the importance of shapes in his chapter about concept art. To not be bound to it I picked the third creature (the bug like one) randomly from the folder. I put the credits on the end of the post. What's next?

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So author Reki Kawahara drew on his familiarity with the games of the day and their systems to create what he thought would be a super-cool virtual reality game. Once consumer VR hit in 2015, we discovered a lot about VR game design. Not much else is said about the death mechanic in the other game worlds of the series.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia. Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles.

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