Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, s Partner Events Building a sense of community is one of the best ways to retain players and drive engagement. For example, what if narrative was tied to a daily login or co-op event?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 has just dropped, Delta Force is in Beta, Marvel Rivals is set to launch in early December.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

A lot of ink has been spilled on the debacle of Overwatch 2 canceling their co-op PvE “Hero Mode”. Putting emotions aside, I think it’s worth re-examining why co-op PvE seemed like a good idea in the first place, and what went wrong in development. Hero mode will need to build all this out.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 12, 2019

In case you missed the previous episode: Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO) To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content Then, if there’s mutual interest on both sides, we look to deepen relationships through new projects, such as co-development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In many ways, Township has been the cornerstone for Playrix’s success as a title that allowed the company to build experience in live ops, analytics, and user acquisition. When it comes to the city building aspect, houses and community buildings have the biggest impact as they are needed to increase population and population cap.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Of Life and Land Build your own settlements in Of Life and Land and experience different maps, scenarios, and rich simulations. Build relationships, play minigames, use social media, and most importantly: solve the mystery at hand. Enjoy co-op gaming and procedurally generated worlds in Unrailed 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Rina co-founded Peak Games, which has become a game-changer in the Turkish gaming scene. Originally, they were developing Royal Riches, a social casino game, investing heavily in optimisation techniques like segmentation, personalisation, dynamic pricing, and live ops tailored for the casino title. Let’s take a look.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

It’s likely that Stumble Guys activated UA campaigns around this time period and we also know the game has been building a solid fan base thanks to influencer marketing on platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, which is one of the reasons why the game is so popular in Latin America. Passive skills and active skills. Monetization.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The advantage of mesh networking over the traditional client/server architecture is that it does not rely on "game servers" drastically reducing the infrastrucutre required for non-competitive or co-op matches, while maintaining fair bandwidth requirements among the peers. So, as always, stay tuned for more! Reference work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this wide ranging interview, Ethan and Sarah go deep on Sarah's experience developing games, how you go about building team and company culture, the importance of building a people first game studio and how Muus Collective is going to bring Web3 gaming to fashion gamers. for hack’n’slash Web3 game Swords of Blood ?

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Warframe is a free to play co-op shooter where you choose to be one of many different heroes navigating the many quests through the game. You begin by joining one of three factions and then set out to start gathering resources to build your army and empire. StarCraft 2 is a lot like it’s predecessor, but that’s not a complaint.

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Some Key Facts about Wizard with a Gun The game features co-op multiplayer, letting you and your friends team up to explore and build. Additionally, if you are cooling your device by using a liquid system, it might be time to clean it. It offers a mix of sandbox and roguelike gameplay elements, creating an endless experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Building a brand Cilingir used League of Legends and Genshin Impact as examples of brands that have resonated outside games, and stressed that community-building has never been more important as it lowers your UA cost. So how should publishers think about launching new games right now?

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This kind of a powerful draw lets the users make friends and build relationships by communicating about their shared experiences in the game. Here, the game is overpowered (OP) by the strategies and calls for a balanced approach for individual players involved in the game.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Human touch Operating under the name RodentGames , Jason Larabie has taught himself the necessary skills to create his upcoming game Artificers Tower , a happy mix of base building, management sim and boss battles. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We believe that the growth of individual titles will not necessarily lead to competition, in-spite of user base overlap, as there is enough room for them to co-exist and grow. We will see more aggressive addition of meta, social features and live-ops events combined with potential franchise tie ups. 1 position in 2020.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Co-founder Chet Faliszek , known for Left 4 Dead and Portal 2’s co-op campaign during his tenure at Valve, feels optimistic about the success of the game. Retro-futuristic sci-fi world Founded by Chet Faliszek and Dr. Kimberly Voll in 2019, Stray Bombay’s set out to build better co-operative games.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 17, 2004

Someone recently submitted a question asking what it would take to build a classic 2D point-n-click adventure today and would it be a viable business? Assumptions 1) We’re building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. 2) We’re hiring real employees to build the game. Monkey Island took less than a year.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A mix of arcade games in Smash TV and Gauntlet Slayer while keeping the arcade couch co-op vibe. This came about from searching Steam for similar couch co-op games and not really finding anything suitable other than Gauntlet Slayer which I’d played to death. “I’m very influenced by the games I’m playing at the time.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

Someone recently submitted a question asking what it would take to build a classic 2D point-n-click adventure today and would it be a viable business? 1) We're building a classic 2D point-n-click adventure game. 2) We're hiring real employees to build the game. 6) We're going to build the game in a year. Assumptions.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Our peak experiences have always been with the Halo series, which has had couch co-op since the beginning. Then they said couch co-op was delayed. Also, couch co-op is still a hugely popular feature. The early Halos are a blast played together in a living room. This struck me as weird, and it still does.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

There is a huge variety of character and builds, and they all play really differently. 20 Minutes Till Dawn plays well and has a decent number of interesting builds. The newer games try much harder to balance the weapons against each other, providing a better variety of builds. Soon, Vampire Survivors will have couch co-op.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Building the interface for designers to tweak combat-related parameters to create specific fights (e.g.

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s worth remembering that Fortnite – so often cited as an early exemplar of the metaverse – was originally a vaguely unpromising co-op craft-and-build game. We can also be confident that so-called visionaries are as likely to muddle their way through as the rest of us.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

This change, coupled with the proliferation of sector-specific investment funds and the emergence of a large cadre of gaming industry angel investors (mostly based in Europe), fueled a surge in financing in companies building mobile games rooted in market revolutions. Do all of the co-founders want to join a larger company?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Playtika noted that Rovio’s IP, namely the Angry Birds franchise, plus the scale of its user base would combine well with its monetization and live ops expertise. Its flagship game remains Angry Birds 2, thanks to a successful rebirth in 2016 ( see Deconstructor of Fun’s breakdown here ) and live ops ever since.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

So do they compete or co-exist peacefully? In other words, you can build a game using only blueprints because they are valid pieces of code. Incredibuild makes Unreal Engine even better by speeding up its code builds and shader compilations. Unity is more often selected by beginners as it’s easier to learn and utilize.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

More sophisticated games soon emerged that featured deck-building and MOBA elements. PixelJunk Monsters 2 and Orcs Must Die’s sequels added a focus on co-op play. Players also build their own card decks that can be utilized when the need, or opportunity arises. It’s like any deck-building game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming Lastly ? Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming It's big #20! investment for co-op mobile game Sweden’s Behold Ventures raises $25.9M TWIG #209 What is going on with games in China??? ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Kristian Segerstrale : Kristian was a co-founder of Glu mobile, CEO of Playfish acquired by EA, was a seed investor in Supercell, was a senior exec at EA, and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp which will soon release their new MOBA shooter called Catalyst Black ( [link] ). and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

My family just finished playing the hit co-op game It Takes Two. Art, since the Ancient Greeks/Forever, has always heavily dealt with the workings of the basic building block of human civilization, the family. A really good, polished game that tries something different? Let’s dig into this! Stab it with a sword.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Green , who is currently Co-Founder and COO of Knock Knock. M&A is becoming an increasingly attractive arena for growth, but building new teams and products will remain an important investment at organizations of every size. systems, flows) Do we have the expertise to build it? Subscribe to deconstructor of fun newsletter.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

In a run-of-the-mill roguelite game decorative items such as skins probably would not be a very effective monetization tactic since roguelites and roguelikes are by default single-player games, but Soul Knight has tackled this problem with a synchronous co-op possibility.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 17, 2022

"American Progress" (1872) by John Gast In the 2020 book The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization , author Roland Ennos unpacks two important aspects of wood: (1) it is the oldest building material yet still in common use today, and (2) it was humankind's main fuel source until coal and oil.

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