PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What started as a passion project has grown into a full-fledged god game blending city-building, resource management and player-driven storytelling. I can really implement my vision, and I have the flexibility to add in content and mechanics that Creo’s fanbase and others would like to see. And the biggest pitfalls?

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

You’ve got hundreds of potential competitors to keep an eye on, thousands of live events to track, and constantly changing trends in the mobile market affecting gameplay mechanics, monetization and user acquisition. Building a list of games that share your genre can help you keep track of what your competitors are doing.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The game invites players to interact with tiny townsfolk, build unique structures and explore surprises, all while pioneering the possibilities of mixed-reality technology. Then I wondered, ‘Where would they build houses?’” Elements of Steampunk Another highlight is the airplane control mechanism. “We

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Games Mechanics Prototyping Build 118

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It From the building mechanics, all the way to the third person character movements.

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Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Such mechanics would be perfect for testing the collision system, which I have yet to develop. For example, the engine does not have any culling mechanism. In no time, the car was driving around the city following a determined path. So, now is time to make the game entertaining. I also want the game to be played on the Apple TV.

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Engine Engineering Culling Build 64

Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. There is no satisfactory “10 steps to create a pattern building board game” guide out there. There are many, many more as well.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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 Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Look no further than this comprehensive guide to crafting and building in the game! Crafting is a gameplay mechanic that allows you to create objects and items using available resources. You will always be in crafting mode if you are not building with a hammer. Dragging is a key mechanic to crafting.

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

Mechanical Hand The studio’s upcoming game, Atomic Picnic, is the brainchild of the company’s CEO, Camilla Slotfeldt. Like a mechanical hand and survival aspects inspired by the ‘ Roadside Picnic ’ novel.” “Our Studio has used almost all of Photon’s tech and even helped them develop some of it.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

Limited-time event skins are not only a great way to boost revenues, but they’re also a great way to build retention and UA by encouraging players to play the game for limited-time items. The more changes you make to the game, the more monetization mechanics you’ve got to play with.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

After a year in Early Access, a unique game now crashes into Steam that presents players a simple yet irresistible premise: build structures and crash them into other structures. Abriss – Build to Destroy is the brainchild of three German students operating under the name The Randwerk Cooperative. Nobody gets hurt!”

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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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This communication happens on five levels: the core engine of the game, mechanics, rules, the internal narrative or “theme”, and the external narrative or “community and marketing.” The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

According to Carlos Casals , 3D Artist and Co-founder of Ticking Clock Games, “We were throwing around all sorts of mechanics and game genres, but we kept coming back to one image; a flying ship.” This approach has been key to ensuring that the game stayed on track during the 18 months that it took to build it.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

I started tinkering with small projects on my own, and over time, I realized I enjoyed the freedom of building something exactly the way I envisioned it. I sketch things out by hand, hang up the drafts all over my wall using tape and sit on the ideas, prototype mechanics, and just see what clicks. It wasnt really a big decision.

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Development Playtesting Prototyping Point and Click 138

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. This keeps the momentum going and encourages further investment in the game.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 44

Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Last but not least, if you’ve spent time building up a mailing list, you can always ask people to like your Facebook page in your next mailer. The best way to build up your Facebook page quickly, though, is through smart use of their advertising system. You can’t automate relationship building. Smart Advertising.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 3, 2024

This detailed world-building, combined with the often ironic dialogues, provides a compelling backdrop for the game’s unfolding drama. The game’s cooperative mechanics allow players to combine the unique abilities of these characters, enhancing their effectiveness and vigor.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We have really worked hard on making each mission a different and fun experience that introduces a unique mechanic.” Buildings crumble on impact, glass shatters and debris bounces off the car into the street. Beyond the joy of destruction, Deliver At All Cost offers players a wide variety of missions.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Depending on the type of IP you want to license, collaborations also provide an opportunity to freshen up your narrative elements and gameplay mechanics. How well does the franchise – if it’s a film or TV show, for example – lend itself to your gameplay mechanics? Does it match your target demographic?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Thinking about those ideas and how I could come up with my own spin or tell my own story with similar mechanics. How do you know that the game you are building is genuinely scary? “It’s I prefer the games that create horror through environments, sound and gameplay mechanics. I believe in keeping a good work life balance.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

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. Dao Si, AI Team Leader, at Nuverse is enthusiastic about the technology. It even helps writing the lines.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Quests that do world building. the treatment of specific monsters in Witcher 3 affecting the fates of characters you may or may not meet) or that build connections with people and places (like how completing a fetch quest or taking care of a problem aids in reconstructing a colony in Xenoblade Chronicles). Is my only option stealth?

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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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Indie DB

MARCH 9, 2024

Assembly RTS is a real-time strategy game with deep customization mechanics. Build a base, gather resources and persist in a hostile, arctic new ice age. Discover seemingly endless possibilities. Assemble your perfect army and conquer the enemy!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, I’ve even said: “ don’t build a board game, build a business.” The reason is that Cover Your Assets’ core mechanic is deceptively quite compelling. The core mechanic of stealing and defending sets of cards that increase in value is essentially the whole game.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

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. Benefits of Unity Build on AWS An application build pipeline needs to run uninterrupted, and flexibly increase or decrease capacity for different development phases.

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Played with Fire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

2⃣ Mechanics Over Story in VR Games VR game design prioritizes motion controls, physics, and realism , often at the expense of narrative. 3⃣ Lack of Emotional Engagement in VR Storytelling While VR provides visual immersion , many games fail to build emotional connections.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Kepler Interactive strives to build a portfolio that reflects creativity and innovation. Developers need to demonstrate a clear understanding of their game’s full scope, progression, and mechanics, even if those details aren’t immediately visible in an early prototype.

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Prototyping Concepts Build Development 151

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Synchronization Deep-Dive: Managing Real-Time Player Actions Across Regions Ensuring stability across regions requires network protocols tailored for scalability, with fallback mechanisms to handle high traffic loads. However, managing this data at scale can be challenging. Often, the key may lie in the way single-player testing is done!

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

Over time, you build up settlements and roads. The ultimate goal, as with many board games, is to score the most points, which you do by building settlements and cities, having the longest road, and a couple of ancillary functions related to development cards. Resist simple zero-sum mechanics to create a more interesting game.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 1, 2020

You want to build a combination of pyramids, obelisks, burial chambers, and temples. You build these structures with stone. It’s all pretty straightforward euro fare at this point, but one mechanic stands out to me as being incredibly profound. You can’t load stone onto a boat and build a structure in the same turn.

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AWS Games

MARCH 12, 2025

This foundation enabled Epic to build and enforce additional controls across their cloud environment. Enforce standards Before Epics Cloud Governance team could implement policies, they first had to establish the right mechanisms, so Epic partnered with a governance solution provider.

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