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Minigames Revisited: How Developers Are Continuing to Tap into Trends and Drive Engagement

Game Refinery

Magic Cauldron follows Wordle’s template, with similar mechanics but featuring potions instead of words. Here are just a few examples: Cooking Madness looked at how it could further monetize the concept beyond pickaxes with Pirate Treasure, which features a $4.99 premium battle pass.

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Solo developer Voidmaw on creating Katanaut: “Done is better than perfect”

PreMortem.Games

And of course, balancing everything like coding, art, marketing, and playtesting can be exhausting. Something I want to feel in a game rather than a structured concept. I sketch things out by hand, hang up the drafts all over my wall using tape and sit on the ideas, prototype mechanics, and just see what clicks.

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Teleportation Mechanics

Grid Sage Games

Cogmind generally has fewer such direct escape options, but teleport mechanics are out there, if an advanced tech not usually available until the late game. As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them.

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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

Logic Simplified

Such VR tools breathe life into the video game mechanics , allowing players to interact with the characters and environment of the game very well. Visual Studio Code - IDE Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a lightweight, free, open-source code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

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The Best Careers in Math You Never Thought About

Real Programming

As industries evolve, so do the applications of mathematical concepts, opening doors to diverse career paths that merge creativity, logic, and problem-solving. From creating realistic physics simulations to designing engaging game mechanics, math plays a crucial role in crafting immersive experiences.

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

What caught my attention wasn’t just her confidence on the panel but the fact that she was not only a student pursuing three majors at Wits University she was also the Lead Concept artist at Chroma Pixel Games , a game studio based in Zambia. I wanted to learn techniques that not everyone knows like coding and animations.

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Solo developer Kaighen Finley: “It’s easy to lose myself in game development”

PreMortem.Games

I don’t have to decipher others’ code base, or wonder if an errant action will cause a branch merging issue or blow up a github repo. Write the idea down in as much detail as is feasible – what it looks or smells like, how it should seem or feel, what effects it should have on the viewer, or on the code.