Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. For years, companies like Blizzard Entertainment have been building components of what now makes up the metaverse, offering immersive, communal experiences through their massively multiplayer online games.

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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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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

In other words, you can build a game using only blueprints because they are valid pieces of code. Incredibuild makes Unreal Engine even better by speeding up its code builds and shader compilations. The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. Unity also enables quick prototyping.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hence, themed victory conditions were out for Old World , but we needed something in place, especially since we were playing MP within a few months of early prototyping. At competitive difficulty levels, VPs serve as a dynamic game timer that the player is racing against to fulfill their ten ambitions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, even back then, Chinese players would spend a substantial amount of money in microtransactions which, thanks to a massive gamer population, were driving multiple franchises above the annual billion dollar revenue mark, making the free-to-play model the only way to build a viable business.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. King vs. Playrix - The Two-Horse Race Every year, Playrix and ABKing are neck and neck in the race to be a top Puzzle publisher. Otherwise, the CPIs would already be way more than their upper limits which cause the certain death of yet another Hypercasual prototype.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! In my first prototype, I had special “Draft Leaders” cards shuffled into segments of the Adventurer deck. The Race to the Finish. His unedited original post can be found here.

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