Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 14, 2025

Duolingos thesis was to build a product that was fun, smart and consumable in 3-minute gaps. When apps dont have a strong Meta and use Streaks, it is a much weaker mechanic. Friend Quests is a social co-op where you complete quests together before a given deadline. Lock-In System #2: Social Pressure.

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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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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.

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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. It’s a simple game, with less lore and complexity than some of the other games on this list, but it’s a game with great mechanics and lively gameplay. UFO Online Invasion.

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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. Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day.

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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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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.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming Lastly ? The rules regarding IAP methods are now the following: Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency wallets, etc.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

More sophisticated games soon emerged that featured deck-building and MOBA elements. But innovating on basic TD mechanics proved to be a challenge. PixelJunk Monsters 2 and Orcs Must Die’s sequels added a focus on co-op play. It’s like any deck-building game.

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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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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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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

Therefore, to correct this terrible misuse of the term, we will look at what “roguelike” or “roguelite” or even “Rogue” actually mean, as well as diving into some concrete examples of how roguelike elements and mechanics have been used in mobile games in China lately. source: Wikipedia).

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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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