Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Access all of our previous predictions.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

We are building a historically accurate survival strategy game” Gorilla Softworks co-founder Deniz Şakar explains how the team has tried to accurately portray the challenges early humans faced while they looked for ways to survive and thrive. “We It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We

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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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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Toys for which you had to build a track yourself and then simply put them on it, and race with your friends just by pressing a button! You can play campaign mode with your friends or/and with AI, build custom tracks and then race on them in the party mode! But what Little Racer is really about? . Having fun, that is it!

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. This is likely due to the game’s varied upgrading system but also due to the way the daily gameplay focus shifts from one mechanic to another.

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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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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, Stumble Guys uses IP in live events to introduce new gameplay mechanics Stumble Guys x Nerf Over on the casual Market, Stumble Guys fumbled home with the other Best Collaboration Event Award.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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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. Concept Art: Concept art shows how the characters, objects, buildings, and areas will look. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Terraforming Mars: Board & Deck Building Game. Maybe this is standard for engine-building games, but it was a new concept to me. (It’s My husband is a bit more into game mechanics and the nitty gritty (can’t you tell I’m pleased I married a game developer? Ok, enough chit chat. Let’s roll out and explore Mars!

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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. Tap the button and you’re off to the races! 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

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. That isn’t to say this is limited to only story-related choices either - choices now that build up to bigger future choices in the future are also often interesting.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. That isn’t to say this is limited to only story-related choices either - choices now that build up to bigger future choices in the future are also often interesting.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

Building on key learnings, the team continued to fine-tune its cloud-based pipeline, including integrating AWS CloudFormation , which allows users to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. We’re also looking at the multiplayer experience for our online competitive mode: pennant race.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

Through their data, Happy Volcano realized that people were far more likely to drop off if they didn’t play through some of the single-player races before hopping over to multiplayer. “It As a player, it’s frustrating to join a multiplayer race and get absolutely thrashed immediately. You just end up leaving.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Casual Games went Hybrid: These are tailored for a broad audience with straightforward mechanics, usually aim to sustain player engagement to boost revenue via ad monetization. This strategy proved to be one of the most effective of the year, demonstrating the importance of keeping existing players engaged.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

In particular, we focus on game mechanics that encourage community-oriented behaviors, the pros and cons of automated reporting, and how to minimize griefing. Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities?

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. Build containerized game servers with AWS Developer tools. The Docker multi-stage build approach is applied to package SuperTuxKart binaries and assets. Performance Efficiency & Cost Optimization.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Save for a few unicorns ( Fortnite , AFK Arena ), the genres and game mechanics feel to me largely unevolved. Players build their army from a selection of troop types, and send them into battle.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I chose the City Sample Demo because it already looks amazing, and since the class lessons were in using the Take Recorder instead of environment building, this seemed like a win for my time spent and potentially having something cool for my portfolio. I imported the recorded takes into the City Sample Demo and started placing the actors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

From our sponsors: RECUR is a world-class NFT platform working with game creators looking to build with NFTs. Don't go through the time, hassle, cost, and risk of building your own tech. As well as by adding deflationary mechanics (sinks) that would limit the potential speculation.

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

.” Oneal, who is Asian American and gay, called on game industry workers and managers “to think about what you can do to make everyone around you – no matter their gender, race, or identity – feel welcome, comfortable, and free to be themselves.” ” This kind of change is a long and hard road.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

Finally, this reward mechanism subtly yet effectively onboards players, teaching them how power-ups work individually and in combination. If players continue to build their win streak, they encounter reward bundles along the way for them to collect. Another perk of these power-up rewards is that they make the game more enjoyable!

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Sirlin

AUGUST 28, 2015

Rather than picking “Zergling Rush” before the game starts, you pick the entire race of Zerg. You build your deck as you play, adding cards from codex to your deck as the game unfolds. Just like in RTS games, you have to actually invest in your economy to build it up. This deck thinning mechanism interacts with your codex.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

First, we have the universe level where you establish things like game mechanics, abilities, characters, locations, statistics and so on. For a lot of our first time creators, we don’t anticipate them building their own universe. We’re not racing towards AIs telling stories.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Just Google “rug pull” and you can see how a generations old idiom became synonymous with a certain scam mechanism in the crypto space. Yes, we are still early and building together, but it’s time that we have clearer answers to some basic questions. One of the surest ways to do it is letting them pay via fiat currency, a.k.a,

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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.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

The mechanics for choosing events and how they affect the player are transparent and easy to understand, which was necessary because, as with all board games, the players have to do all the work themselves. In this case, the leader is a Builder, so she gets Ambitions to build Wonders.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. The second largest sub-genre is the good and old Build & Battle. Signup for the newsletter.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? Although the feline-like Anagativa and the rodent-like Kotakaya are the most prominent creatures featured in Kristala, the Kota aren't the only rodent race that thrives on planet Ailur. Convenient, right?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

While the zoo theme was on the money just a few years ago, with the rise of the animal rights movement, building a prison for animals is arguably not something the majority of their target audience fantasies. The biggest string-matching game by far is Best Fiends, which is categorized as a Puzzle RPG due to its progression mechanic.

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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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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The game's scarce resources and the constant threat of danger build an atmosphere of desperation and vulnerability, making every encounter a potential nightmare. This unique mechanic turns a typically harmless object into your only line of defence against vengeful spirits. The Last of Us 9. Amnesia: The Dark Descent 7.

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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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