Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A list of 14 of the best hyper-casual mechanics to use for your game. Prototyping, testing and analytics. Hyper-casual games are all about prototyping and iterating your games to hit certain KPIs and targets. How to do fast prototyping and what you need to know. How to make effective game art in hyper-casual games.

Prototyping 68

Prototyping Games Mobile Mobile 68

Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

Art 147

Art Concepts Dev Studios 147

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Also, define your game’s genre, interaction modes, and gameplay mechanics. Prototyping  Create a minimum viable product or a prototype to assess your multiplayer game’s core mechanics. Through prototyping, you can identify possible issues early. It helps address any performance issues, bugs, and glitches in the game.

Game Development 52

Game Development Game Developer Development Quality Assurance 52

Mnenad

JANUARY 14, 2020

  So I remember exactly how my first prototype looked like. I don’t remember anymore how it came to the decision to make it Countryball themed, but I guess the sheer number of possibilities, both in game mechanics and design choices, have led to that decision.   The bug was fixed in the last update 3.5.  

Bug 52

Bug Communications Mobile Mobile 52

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. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Playtesting 52

Tom Francis

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s two massive lucky things I’m grateful for, but I’m used to having literally a year to f**k around with ugly prototypes of random s**t I make up before having to decide which one is my real project. Feeling ‘locked-in’ so early makes me anxious, and having side-projects relieves some of that.

Racing 52

Racing Prototyping Mechanics Bug 52

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Although the role is highly creative, it is also quite technical, and modelers must be able to determine scale, optimize geometry and renders, and troubleshoot software issues and bugs. They oversee both the foundation and execution of the game mechanics and overall user experience. What does a game programmer do?

Film 52

Film Animation Animation Concepts 52

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Game Designer A game designer is someone who brainstorms ideas and concepts, builds prototypes, and develops the game’s mechanisms. If a game tester finds a bug or something that needs to be changed, their feedback is relayed to the game developers and programmers who then work on the iterations.

Games 52

Games Graphics Technology Game Design 52

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. A few different mechanics For a game about fishing stuff out of the water, Dredge is surprisingly light on fishing mechanics.

Playtesting 104

Playtesting Prototyping Games Mechanics 104

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. A few different mechanics For a game about fishing stuff out of the water, Dredge is surprisingly light on fishing mechanics.

Playtesting 104

Playtesting Prototyping Mechanics Games 104

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. When designing the game itself, it’s more important to marry yourself to the experience than it is the mechanics of the game. Some prototypes I prepared (at The Game Crafter) were actually so nice that it worked against us.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Games Playtesting Game Designer 130

Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

We rather think of an ideal or prototype bird like this one over here from a kid's science book. To not be bound to it I picked the third creature (the bug like one) randomly from the folder. I'm looking forward to share the mechanic and story behind of the game in the upcoming post. Here are the examples I made. 

Terrain 52

Terrain Concepts Art Mesh 52

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not.

Pixel 130

Pixel Film Art Prototyping 130

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

Simulation 130

Simulation Art Internet AI 130