The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It doesn't matter how good your content is if nobody sees it. During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Each chapter had exactly one very memorable, hateable villain to fight. Baldur's Gate 3 is too long. Doesn't matter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals. Clash Royale was reminiscent of some popular Starcraft/Warcraft mods like Nexus Wars or Castle Fight. Supercell attempted to fight this trend by building better tools and a greater focus on user-generated content. There’s nothing bad in incremental innovation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Truly open worlds populated by procedurally developed content, adaptable game mechanics, and narratives. Here’s how AI will likely lead to layoffs in game development in addition to a decrease in jobs across marketing, HR, communication, accounting, etc. Fighting against the AI revolution is not the answer.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mortal Kombat 1 We’re only a few weeks away from the release of the 12th main installment in the 80 million-selling fighting franchise (September 19). It also needed content that a non-hardcore fan would expect from that sort of title. Now, I had at the very beginning in a bracket for every action that says, ‘if/when.’

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Game Errors

JULY 11, 2023

It brings complex and well-balanced gunplay by allowing you to fight alongside your buddies against hordes of opponents. Table of contents: Time needed: 5 minutes. Update DirectX Games can communicate with your video and audio cards thanks to a set of Windows components called DirectX.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We are fighting a lot of challenges at the moment, and they’re becoming clearer – we’ve got lots of issues with toxicity and harassment online for women. Because advocating through collaboration and communication are fundamental tools in the struggle to eliminate discrimination.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “It’s also, I think, in some ways a little scary that one device from one single company can theoretically replace every single device and can now sit right between the consumer and all the other content out there,” he mused. The discussion also addressed the challenges of producing quality content for VR.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Additionally, the Puzzle genre is not suitable for brand/content creator marketing, one of the key Supercell marketing and distribution strengths. But the content creator audiences likely weren’t very receptive to Clash Quest , which is not as fun to watch due to the lack of PvP and has way less mastery depth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Event- and content-specific currencies is a trend we’re across all the genres. correct) 2020 Prediction #3: Playtika, Aristocrat, and Scientific Games will fight to maintain and/or gain market share with improved live-ops on existing slots titles, and 1-2 new slots title releases. Last Year’s Scorecard (Yes!)

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 19, 2024

Like, you need their help, but they immediately make it clear they won't fight for free. If I could make one change to the Larian design aesthetic: Yes, gamers love content. FIFTY EMPTY BOXES ARE NOT CONTENT. Another example of giving interesting choices early only. It does a lot to help a game. Baldur's Gate 3 is BIG.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. New nerd content was rare and treasured. Now, of course, this sort of content is pretty much all there is. You can turn on the tap and choose from 73 different flavors of Medieval Fantasy Content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. To capture the content of the airdrop, it has to be safely delivered to an extraction point. Battle Pass content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. It’s the communication clarity and on-screen feedback that helps the player learn how to navigate the game, while providing great gratification. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 1, 2022

This goes double if they just finished a huge boss fight and are full of adrenaline. This needs to take enough time to be clearly communicated. Then, if you keep playing and repeat content or do harder stuff, you get a "better" ending. As in, they needed to find out a little more about what happened to be content.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Let them work the way they like, quick and dirty, but just make sure they write clean APIs to communicate with other programmers. Paid games (free or with paywalled content) don't make money and banners make so little that it's not even enough for you to survive (even if they get millions of downloads). a fighting game), is animation.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

It’s to teach us that Bran has the power to look back in time, and then to actually communicate a message to someone in the past.but that it can only be a single phrase and that it can drive that person insane. You might have to fight Zombie Ned or other Stark family relatives from the grave. The seed is planted. How about Sansa?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

3rd party IPs account for about 20% of the Top 300 Grossing games in the USA (not counting event content). Building a connection with a world and characters from scratch via single 1:1 communications via the mobile funnel is insanity mode difficulty. Simply put, with the right circumstances, IPs mitigate risk.

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