Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Widely regarded as the biggest trendsetter when it comes to entertaining content, the short-form video content platform, TikTok, has become the new home for viral content. A large part of Fidget Trading’s massive success was due to the popularity of the game concept and familiarity among TikTok users.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.The recent Kickstarter campaign for the game reached its 60.000 goal in just 19 hours! Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will release in Steam Early Access in September 2024.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Titles like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Genshin Impact have redefined player engagement through frequent content drops, seasonal events, and community-driven updates. Continuous Content Updates: Players expect frequent refreshes in the form of character skins, props, and new environments. These include: (i). Common issues include: (i).

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Live services exist for single player game - any game with regular content updates and patching is a live service. Those content updates and patches are the "service" part - we have to build them, they go live and get pushed out to the public. I think you've misunderstood the "single player vs live service" thing.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are just a few examples: Cooking Madness looked at how it could further monetize the concept beyond pickaxes with Pirate Treasure, which features a $4.99 premium battle pass. Candy Crush Saga took an unsurprisingly sweet approach to the Digging craze with Baker’s Box , which swaps sand for cookies and pickaxes for spoons.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build. The following year, the Norsfell team submitted their concept to the Montreal Ubisoft Indie Series annual competition for local independent game studios—and won. Buoyed by success and a cash prize, they moved “Tribes of Midgard” into production.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Technical Director Ivan Marcin is back for another groundbreaking session that will guide attendees through building a multi-modal agent using Amazon Bedrock. Technical Director Ivan Marcin is back for another groundbreaking session that will guide attendees through building a multi-modal agent using Amazon Bedrock.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 13, 2025

Written by Michail Katkoff , founder of Deconstructor of Fun and a games industry veteran with 15 years of experience in building, operating, and scaling games and game companies. Develop a Unique Concept: Skillz is looking for new genres and fresh takes on skill-based gaming. Lets dive in.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. We saw that all our various asset concepts such as levels, prefabs, templates, or presets could be unified as they are all hierarchies of property containers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. This adds parity with Ogg Vorbis audio tracks, and will be a welcome addition for users who want to load user-generated content at runtime (including non-game audio applications).

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. Build on your strengths. So rather than coming up with an entirely new concept for his second title, he stuck to his guns and layered in more elements – like in-game combat and the use of limited resources – to get people more engaged. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. She observed an evolution in her children’s preferences from traditional Disney shows to influencer and gameplay content. Now there are hundreds of millions.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices. This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape. Horse game bubble Looking ahead, Ruppert has high hopes for Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori. “We

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Experimenting with track design Work on the game began in January 2020 as a basic concept that had the player piloting a hovercraft and clearing traffic with weapons in an attempt to escape the authorities. They build everything from scratch with the exception of some textures and sound effects. But so did the workload.” “I’ve

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Transforming creative Mobile gaming advertisers build a high volume of new ads and new iterations, feeding these into marketing platforms seeking increased ROAS or reduced cost of acquisition. How these decisions are made could be the competitive advantage you need for your game.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2024

It’s a no-goals, no-management sandbox that allows players to build dark cities that would make Deckard proud to hunt replicants in. In many ways it felt logical to get back to being hands on in creating but I also enjoyed that clarity of what I wanted to build without the usual design by committee processes that I had been through.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. While he didn’t immediately embark on this ambitious project, the concept lingered in his mind and gradually took shape as a concrete game design. Cocoon’s development journey spanned a challenging 6.5

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

Using Kickstarter for a game shouldn’t be solely about the campaign but about building a company working on multiple games. Combine public funding, work for hire, and Kickstarter, using the platform to elevate, attract investors, and build a brand. It should complement other funding sources, fostering creativity in fundraising.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

To make things easier to get started, at the brainstorming stage of designing new ideas, teams collaborate on mood boards to distill the sense of style or mood of the concept they are developing. Miro is where teams from anywhere come together to create the next big thing.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more. The power of social and competitive events One of Monopoly GO!’s

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements. Is it well-defined?

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity is used for use cases beyond games, and these new use cases may not run on traditional game platforms, so being able to build for a wide variety of platforms is critical.

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CG Spectrum

MARCH 13, 2023

How will AI impact artists such as digital illustrators and concept artists ? The ever-evolving technological landscape shows no signs of slowing down, so, as an artist, it's vital to build the skills that will allow you to adapt to whatever comes next. Concept Artist and CG Spectrum Dept.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. A game designer designs the overall concept of a game. Who is a Game Designer?

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

Once you have the concept for a game – if it’s an interesting concept – there is always an abundance of ideas that materialize out of nowhere. My first game, called Averish , was a city building game where you could build entire cities out of plastic building blocks. I was going to eat that, Debbie!”

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. This requires a lot of knowledge, skills and time to build and integrate all the components. Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Universal RP.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. We also can’t always repurpose old content for the story DLC. What is the FANTa project?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

I told them I had already created some early concept art and design work for my next game and that it would fit perfectly into it. Now it’s mostly about creating the content of the levels for me now.” “I thought that the core mechanic in this 2D game was extraordinary, so I contacted the developers.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

“Accessible” is a loaded word in board gaming, but the basic concepts are simple: make games for as many people as you can. Content creators such as podcasters and bloggers often enjoy working with guests. Build up one or more social media accounts on a site such as Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 11, 2024

Of course we are developing the additional content promised on the Kickstarter campaign!” And all the relationships and life lessons you’ll build and learn by talking to the townspeople of Orilla Town.” “But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be better and sustainable.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This has made core CCG fans passionately receive it as a refreshing experience, although retaining them for a long time may put a lot of pressure on the flow of new content. The brief and high-intensity game loop makes it well attuned to mobile gaming tempo, and it’s one of the reasons why the game is so damn engaging.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “It’s also, I think, in some ways a little scary that one device from one single company can theoretically replace every single device and can now sit right between the consumer and all the other content out there,” he mused. The discussion also addressed the challenges of producing quality content for VR.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Scopely The vision for the company has been, and continues to be, to build the definitive free-to-play mobile games company in the west. We are not a distributor of third-party content.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The concept is the following: players start with a small hole (or as one, if you wish) and grow by devouring objects smaller than their current size, as well as other players’ holes. Top 10 Games By Downloads At long last, moving on to the top 10 Hypercasual games by downloads in this quarter!

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. But that’s not all!

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Common Marketing Strategies Don’t Focus on Methods, Focus on Fundamentals The Basics of Marketing * Audience * Product * Branding Gaining Attention Building Interest Creating Desire Using Calls to Action Bringing it All Together. Over time, you build up a brand, both for your company and your individual products and services.

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