Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 11, 2018

I’d love to make a true point-and-click adventure in real 3D (not that fake 2D/3D). Players were just getting used to the interface and mechanic and default responses threw people off sometimes. Build Terrible Toybox further and make it a main game studio? Branch out and make games in different genres?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Terraforming Mars: Board & Deck Building Game. ALSO earn the most points by the end of the game. The cards are projects, which act as event cards you can play to get points and try to terraform Mars. Maybe this is standard for engine-building games, but it was a new concept to me. (It’s Ok, enough chit chat.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. I’m making wise use of this time by growing a community of game developers, but that is a subject that I will cover in more detail on another day since community building is such a ripe area for discussion. Re-theming is totally fine by me.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 12, 2018

I'd love to make a true point-and-click adventure in real 3D (not that fake 2D/3D). Players were just getting used to the interface and mechanic and default responses threw people off sometimes. Build Terrible Toybox further and make it a main game studio? Continually make great games for a loyal smaller audience (eg.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Click here. The basic idea of the core engine is “what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.” The game’s mechanics center around that. Color TV!).

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It involves creating mechanics that determine how players interact with the game. Marketing is about building relationships with people and you need lots of time to do this right. Selling involves creating a game that has something about it that makes people want to click Add to Cart or grab it off the game store shelf.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Actors often hold up objects awkwardly so you can click on them. Cult of the Lamb by Massive Monster This is a Hades-like / Binding of Issac-ish 2D action roguelike wrapped around a Don't Starve / Rimworld-y town building crafting survival system, with all the subversively violent dark cartoon humor of those references.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Click here. You might expect me at this point to say “here are 5 ways you know you’re ready to change your audience.” Clear communication builds trust. That’s why you have to build another audience. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? That makes clear communication extra critical.

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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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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've been fascinated by board games that revolve around drafting for years now, and in early 2011 I wrote a post on the pillars that make these games click. These guilds mostly provide variable point bonuses based on the types of buildings the players to your left and right have built. Few viable paths to victory.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader. .”

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In our Buildbox tutorial series, we’ll show you how you can build amazing 2D and 3D games without having to know how to code. . In today’s tutorial I’m going to introduce you to Buildbox, a beginner friendly no-code game engine that allows you to build beautiful video games without having to know how to program.

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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. Planting and harvesting crops are the starting point of all the actions. On top of that, almost every action grants experience points. product management.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

All of which results in a near slots experience that makes the most of addictive slots player psychology , while using casual versions of proven F2P mid-core mechanics to capitalise on feelings of Loss Aversion and Skinner Box driven habit forming. Coin Master’s Game Systems. Most definitely, “Spins” drive all core loop engagement.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Just like deck-building games, or even Settlers of Catan in a way, the fact that the board game is never the same is the perfect foundation for a multi-dimensional game. . Lastly, and somewhat tied to the second point, is the changing team members. Preferred Game Mechanics. And dreamy too. Don’t tell Brandon I said that. .

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). x point releases (which we are now intending to do more often, allowing several releases per year). Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 7, 2022

Monsters and encounters are re-used way beyond the point where they’re interesting anymore. Here are some more specific examples of gacha-ism mechanics that we see all over our games, gacha and otherwise: The (dreaded) crafting system. Items or upgrades are made smaller and smaller to extend the length of the power curve.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? In other words: building a product to reach an audience and not the other way around. Will CPMs fall enough to offset the impact on CPIs for most advertisers?

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 1, 2024

They capture real actors' performances in live action and build complete worlds from scratch in animation. At the same time, animation breakdowns focus on world-building elements, character assets, and rendering requirements that shape the entire production pipeline from the ground up. Live-action films take a different route.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

If you want to try the new changes outlined below, you can use this custom build (Linux, Windows). A right-click "popup" search menu was also added, and the sidebar was mostly moved to the top providing more room for the member list and the graph as well. Right-click menu. Work done. Visual Script graph unification.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

For me, the promise of a strategy game is understanding what’s going to happen each time you click a button while still not being able to predict the future. So, I went for the most boring solution possible – victory points – and it worked out surprisingly well. However, they were not initially part of the victory system.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

There is nothing better than having one software that can group dozens of files in one single Translation Memory and being able to look through it with a few clicks. You wouldn’t want your successor to butcher it, so build a nice glossary that will help with future titles of the series and ease the marketing team’s work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The second largest sub-genre is the good and old Build & Battle. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In today’s tutorial, we take things a step further by teaching you how to use triggers and switches in order to help you create more interesting game mechanics. Manage game collectibles like gold, money or points. Our NoCode game development course teaches indie game devs how to build breathtaking games from scratch. .

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

A secret is a bit of content – a part of a level, an item, a character, or any other thing in the game, which is (for lack of a better term) “missable” I hate to use the term missable, because that has a negative connotation, but it also points to an important part of what secrets are.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? Once she had the base down, Bianca then started adding in the unique details included in the concept, like the sharp, pointed spinal fins along the character's head, neck, and back—and the fine, thin webbing between its fingers. Convenient, right?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

The collaboration extends to game mechanics and gameplay loops, where player feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the final product. So, when a player comes to a ‘choice point’ with, for example, three buttons, they may click only one that opens a certain path and locks the other sections.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. Mechanics are how you bring the basic ideas to life. Rules are specific directions on how you regulate mechanics. They explain, limit, and clarify.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In keeping with our theme of nostalgia, I will also talk about which of my four favorite nostalgic game mechanics it incorporates. These four nostalgic game mechanics are: Dynamic character roles Great art or colors Incorporates a clicking noise Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety. Marrying Mr. Darcy : Deck Building Game.

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Real Programming

APRIL 22, 2025

And the more they practice, the more it clicks. Every game mechanic, from character movement to score tracking, is powered by logic, structure, and mathematical thinking. And because games inherently involve patterns, structure, and numbers, kids organically explore mathematical concepts while they build.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

The dice are bright and pretty, as are the puzzle boards on which you build stained glass arrangements of dice. Your objective is to score the most victory points. This game came out in 2017 and the creators knew that in order to succeed on social media, it had to make people stop and click. And boy did it! ” to make.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I like the idea of designing robots, putting together builds for a particular purpose or with particular capabilities in mind. Sadly all my old BT books and records are at a relative’s house right now, otherwise I might go through them and share a thing or two :) A Mechwarrior Online build. A BattleTech loadout sheet.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Head on over to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast or click on the episode below! But beyond that point, Clash Mini sank in the charts. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney. Clash IP diversification?

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. You just click on them to challenge, and that’s it. It’s intentional that you click once to challenge, they accept, then you are playing. You would touch their name on a list and call them. No more UI than that is needed.

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