PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I function well like that.”

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As well as embarking on an epic Viking voyage and a wide variety of fights, players tend to a kingdom by growing crops and upgrading buildings with construction and management sim mechanics. As an example, Granblue Fantasy is an RPG with heavy social ements, while Puzzle & Dragons is a Match3 puzzle game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

It allows players to instantly swap places with any physics based object which allows for some clever puzzling through the relentless levels. “We So, a fantasy setting instead of everyday environments would provide the most room to be creative without being too shackled to anything too specific.”

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. All of this creates a more lighthearted fantasy world. Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. For me personally, I’m still working on building the marketing agency. After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. Need help on your board game?

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Filmustage

JANUARY 17, 2025

Building Blocks of a Bendy Schedule Think of your film shooting schedule like a game of Tetris every piece needs to fit just right. Here's the kicker: productions that nail their scheduling puzzle finish shooting 25% faster than those playing scheduling hopscotch. The biggest troublemaker? Thinking you can teleport between locations!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It’s a simple but very slickly designed “business sim” where you build your own ‘crypto exchange’, with a hamster as CEO. Even the “lowest quality” games put a LOT of focus on social features — with affiliate clubs or other strong incentives to invite others and build community.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Though many startups are beginning to build their legacies, 13 studios successfully released titles. The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. a fantasy multiplayer RPG, but the project was shut down in May’24. While neither became widely popular, they generated around 1.4

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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. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. Our team of professional game designers and developers work together to build visually appealing and captivating games.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

. “Maybe he doesn’t know how to… communicate with engineers as well as Condrey,” Gray mused, highlighting how leadership can sometimes make or break a studio’s ability to build a strong, cohesive team. I asked questions around how leaders are adapting to the new reality of remote work and the need for distributed teams.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. This article actually has secrets, such as this text.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

. “Maybe he doesn’t know how to… communicate with engineers as well as Condrey,” Gray mused, highlighting how leadership can sometimes make or break a studio’s ability to build a strong, cohesive team. I asked questions around how leaders are adapting to the new reality of remote work and the need for distributed teams.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes. “Build a personal relationship with people. His father’s work laptop found its way into their home and onto his young ecstatic lap. That laptop became his digital playground.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. By the end of the game, that threat has disappeared and your build is fun and OP. So then the golden loop schedule ends up feeling too simple and doable. And it was.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

Call of Duty Mobile, for example, was down 40M downloads YoY) Sniper (Sniper 3D led the decline with a drop of over 30M compared to the last year) Build & Battle (decline across the board with Castle Clash, Forge of Empires and Boom Beach leading the way). If this was the strategy, it didn’t pan out. 4 High entry barrier.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). At the $25 subscription level, patrons get all that plus they can see all the latest gameplay materials for the tabletop games so they can make their own print-and-play version, and they will get builds of the digital games when those are ready.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 23, 2020

That’s over a Billion more than puzzle games , which is the second largest genre in terms of revenue. Strategy games are by far the most top grossing genre on mobile beating the second largest genre, Puzzle Games, by nearly $1Bn. Year to date strategy games generated nearly five and a half Billion Dollars in in-app purchases.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Build armies, move troops strategically around to fortify positions in an attempt to strengthen your position, and attack and defend. In Mario Teaches Typing, there are four games to choose from, each one building on the previous one with regard to difficulty levels. This fantasy-based game is set in Enroth, where magic rules.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures! In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

It takes lots of inspiration from Hay Day while introducing a whole new IP based on a cute fantasy world unrelated to any other Supercell franchise. But what’s unique is that an actual villager needs to be assigned to the crafting building or construction site to finish the task. It’s not possible to automate the production.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Welcome back to the fantasy, friends! You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Now, let's get ready to amp up the magic and dive headfirst into the dark fantasy of Kristala.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Ready to see how things are going now in the fantasy world of Ailur? Let's dive in. Concept Art.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On Android and other mobile devices, you may play a variety of fantastic games ranging from puzzles to adventure. For instance, when it was launched in 1997, Final Fantasy VII, had a production budget of around $45 million and a marketing budget of over $100 million. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets by connecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The biggest news items of the year are Meta losing $15 billion in trying to build a metaverse and the collapse of FTX , which hopefully but not likely is the last gigantic crypto collapse we see ( Binance is reportertly struggling as well). The decision to take a massive investment from Saudi Arabia was just icing on the cake.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. Hey there, gorgeous! Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog. link] Programming.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA. For now, let's leave reality behind and take a step into the dark fantasy world of Kristala. 3D Asset Design.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players can join Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they embark on epic quests, solving intricate puzzles, facing dynamic combat challenges, and exploring breathtaking environments. As a hard-core player, you can explore a rich fantasy world, engage in action, and rebuild a hub town while undertaking quests.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

The wide selection of video game genres means that translators won’t be stuck on high-fantasy language or racing games for the rest of their careers but might also need to learn about cooking, board games, politics, astrophysics (okay, maybe I am exaggerating), and so on. So wear that top hat and be prepared to solve some puzzles!

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