Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Panel: Recession vs game industry Host: Laura Taranto, Senior Director of Product, Big Fish Chris Petrovic, CBO and Board Member, FunPlus Dara Leung , Managing Director, The Raine Group Micha Katz , Managing Director, Aream & Co.

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Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We believe that the growth of individual titles will not necessarily lead to competition, in-spite of user base overlap, as there is enough room for them to co-exist and grow. We will see more aggressive addition of meta, social features and live-ops events combined with potential franchise tie ups. 1 position in 2020.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge. The Kickstarter campaign for his second project Paper Sky reached its goal earlier this year.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

You can write rubbish code and there’s no one to complain. A mix of arcade games in Smash TV and Gauntlet Slayer while keeping the arcade couch co-op vibe. This came about from searching Steam for similar couch co-op games and not really finding anything suitable other than Gauntlet Slayer which I’d played to death.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Our peak experiences have always been with the Halo series, which has had couch co-op since the beginning. Then they said couch co-op was delayed. Also, couch co-op is still a hugely popular feature. Children Need To Feel Physics I kind of want to write a full piece on this.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see. I have to confess at this point that I was inspired to write this by seeing multiple discussions on Twitter/X. Yet, I'm going to have a full career writing indie games. Don't Write a Manifesto! Write a great game that inspires.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

If it looks good, you should write a copy of it. I was inspired to write this post because I saw a popular streamer playing Yet Another Zombie Survivors. Soon, Vampire Survivors will have couch co-op. Couch co-op and party games are one of them. The one, the only, the original. Everyone else has.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, a programmer working on itemization will write code that enforces all the desired rules for our game’s items and build an interface for a designer to create specific items bound by the rules the programmer set up. Some of the different subfields of gameplay programming include: ALT Combat - One of the much larger subfields.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The co-founders of the company come from Peak, Zynga, and Riot, where some held co-founder or key team roles. Adding the fact that some of the co-founders worked at Peak (that developed two successful blast titles in Toy Blast & Toon Blast ), they went ahead with their own take on the Tile Match subgenre. What is next?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Playtika noted that Rovio’s IP, namely the Angry Birds franchise, plus the scale of its user base would combine well with its monetization and live ops expertise. Its flagship game remains Angry Birds 2, thanks to a successful rebirth in 2016 ( see Deconstructor of Fun’s breakdown here ) and live ops ever since.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

So do they compete or co-exist peacefully? In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++. When working with Unreal, users don’t require deep knowledge of codes or even a basic understanding of how to write them. Easier to Use Let’s talk about usability – which is better: Unity or Unreal ?

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

My family just finished playing the hit co-op game It Takes Two. It's a very fun game with very unusual writing, and it's extremely and deservedly popular. This applies when you're just writing a goofy game where you stab demons with robots. So write what you want. Write what feels true to you.

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Art Point and Click Games Writing 52

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Kristian Segerstrale : Kristian was a co-founder of Glu mobile, CEO of Playfish acquired by EA, was a seed investor in Supercell, was a senior exec at EA, and now is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp which will soon release their new MOBA shooter called Catalyst Black ( [link] ). I need to write that piece of code. And that's one extreme.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52

Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

Soul Knight has been doing rather well on the download charts ever since – regularly appearing in the top 50 even at the time of writing in May 2022, as well as making sporadic appearances in the top-grossing charts every now and then.

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