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4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In it, I talk about why I love Pandemic for introducing me to hobby games and why I find its take on cooperative gameplay particularly effective. Photo taken by Jana Reifegerste and posted on Flickr.

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

Game Refinery

Our eight different player archetypes Mobile game developer Playrix is one of the pioneers of this event type in casual puzzle games, spicing up their LiveOps rotation with fast-paced, competitive events. For example, the Instant Showdown recurring event brings light PvP action to Homescapes.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. Windowkill Another twist on gaming directly on a desktop came in the form of the action roguelike Windowkill.

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Short N Sweet looks to open up a new sector in console gaming

Game Daily

We believe that bringing these shorter games to consoles is a key part of our strategy to progress Brazilian game development.” ” Four games Short N Sweet is talking to the big console companies about four games, all of which are rooted in long-standing and popular genres.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. So do they compete or co-exist peacefully? Now cross-platform game development with Unity is possible.

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Tower Pop seeks to reinvent tower defense

Game Daily

Last month , Finnish game developer and publisher Tower Pop announced a $2.1 million investment for its upcoming Web3 game Omega Royale. How does the tower defense (TD) genre – generally associated with casual, mobile gaming – fit into the Web3 world? Let’s take a look.

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