Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We covered a lot of these IAP offer implementations in our last blog post on how to build your next mobile IAP offer. Assuming you’ve done that, we’ll pick up from where we left off and dive straight back into more examples of games building their IAP offers, giving you all the inspiration you need to build on your own.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

He says it helps artists to free up their time and produce content more efficiently. Currently, our system is designed to address highly repetitive and mechanical content production problems, such as matching lip movements. ” Nuverse is building on the GPT-3 network to create natural sounding dialogue.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. They’re a great way of boosting engagement by providing players with new and exciting ways of enjoying an existing game.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not only are collaboration events a great way to engage players, but they’re also a great way to boost your game’s monetization through the addition of new content, such as event-exclusive cosmetic items and collectibles. How well does the franchise – if it’s a film or TV show, for example – lend itself to your gameplay mechanics?

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build. Ahead of the game’s first alpha build release in March 2019, Norsfell adopted a backend comprising Amazon API Gateway , AWS Lambda , and Amazon GameLift. “We It allows us to plan for, respond to, and adapt in different scenarios.”

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Magic Cauldron follows Wordle’s template, with similar mechanics but featuring potions instead of words. The primary gameplay loop revolves around an abandoned farm, which players have to care for to survive, planting and harvesting crops, constructing buildings, and fulfilling orders for villagers.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention. Buildings in the Outpost act as locations for special Brief Encounters.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Making Early Content. Be sure to consider your Content Mix when you are backdating posts and scheduling future ones. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The AWS team has been so helpful in showing us how to use new technology, like generative AI, so that we can focus more of our resources on developing games and testing out innovations instead of building every piece ourselves. This makes the gaming experience more engaging and last for a longer time.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

town-building run-based RTS with a Warcraft 3 inspired aesthetic and a deckbuilding meta-game progression. You spend an hour building a base while fulfilling randomized mini-goals for victory points. The core game design throughline is clear: they loved the Warcraft wood chopping mechanic, and so they made an entire game around it.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns. The match3 puzzler Best Fiends demonstrates this well.

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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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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ). Including art!

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city. When the team first decided to make a sim management style game, they quickly settled on a city building sim. “We That gave us the idea!” by Emperor Taizu of Song. “Sim

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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. Players often return to established titles after trying these new games, reflecting the powerful gravitational pull of long-established live services that are firing new content on all cylinders.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city. When the team first decided to make a sim management style game, they quickly settled on a city building sim. “We That gave us the idea!” by Emperor Taizu of Song. “Sim

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

I thought that the core mechanic in this 2D game was extraordinary, so I contacted the developers. The Swap The initial idea that ignited the project was the core mechanic: The Swap. It was also important that the environments would be suitable for various gameplay scenarios and mechanics.

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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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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Such VR tools breathe life into the video game mechanics , allowing players to interact with the characters and environment of the game very well. Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Known for popular game franchises including EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, and Apex Legends, EA regularly releases new game versions to mitigate issues, make improvements, and add new in-game content. KVP uses the knowledge of the installed version and language of the game to generate smaller patches with only the changed content.

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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. Finally, we wanted to have a bi-directional interoperation between our tools and third-party digital content creation tools (DCCs). Any recommended small steps to follow for starters?

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Drawing inspiration from their own experiences in bouldering, the team sought to incorporate the exhilarating mechanics of climbing into the game. There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Titles like Match Factory , Triple Match 3D , and Tile Busters have successfully carved out space by introducing fresh mechanics to the puzzle category. These games blur the lines between hypercasual simplicity and deeper, more engaging puzzle mechanics. These games are intentionally designed to minimize friction for players.

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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

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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen.

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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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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In previous years I’ve opened the review with a collage of dev images of varying themes and content, but approaching the end of this year we have one major theme that stands out, and that I’ll be writing more about below, so let’s hear it for the interface mockups!

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Players can build their own “levels, stories, game experiences and even worlds” as they craft, trade, buy and sell resources, equipment, land, and other commodities. The trailer features a pretty world of warriors, who flit between environments, with ample tools for building and crafting.

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Game Daily

MAY 15, 2023

Launched last month, Meta World: My City from Netmarble N2 is a blockchain real estate digital board game with additional virtual real estate building and trading as well as social metaverse activities. The first innovation we would like to highlight is Union Tokenomics, which enables players to stably enjoy the content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The loss of depth in gameplay mechanics is compensated with a higher weight of the poker-like mindgames. 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.

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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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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. Building a Riveting Mobile Game. The players should intuitively understand the mechanism of the game and get engaged with the gameplay within a few minutes they start playing the game.

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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. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. of each level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Building on our previous conversation with SciPlay CEO Josh Wilson , this episode dives deeper into the companys growth strategy, talent approach, and staying ahead in the fast-changing world of gaming. Mechanics, themes, and features that succeed in digital games can inform the design of physical slot machines, and vice versa.

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