Brand Game Development

MAY 13, 2019

Everything can be scrapped at a moment’s notice – mechanics, rules, art, and even basic core concepts. You come up with basic ideas, find physical pieces to represent those ideas, and come up with game mechanics. Then you regulate the expression of those mechanics through rules. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

I never once took Kickstarter data before making this game and its stagnation on Kickstarter shows. Was it the basic concept? I never used market data to validate this game. I handled the operations much better this time, but the core concept didn’t work. Kickstarter is a big, beautiful data set.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The following year, the Norsfell team submitted their concept to the Montreal Ubisoft Indie Series annual competition for local independent game studios—and won. The solution provides observability into data that informs areas for server optimization as well as enhancing the overall player experience. “The

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Similarities all around Beyond its look and feel, the gameplay mechanics found in Palworld also closely match those from other well-known games. The concept of having monster companions and mounts clearly comes from Ark: Survival Evolved and the technology tree skill system looks almost identical.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

The concept here is quite similar: users need to move screws around to drop all the wooden blocks on the screen. Solutions can range from logical and mathematical to visual and motoric, with some challenges requiring the user to rotate their phone—a captivating game mechanic.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. Unlike asset data, everything is in small ASCII files. Of course we do.

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Real Programming

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

As industries evolve, so do the applications of mathematical concepts, opening doors to diverse career paths that merge creativity, logic, and problem-solving. From securing online transactions to safeguarding government communications for organizations like the CIA , cryptographers play a vital role in keeping data safe.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. That’s the core concept from Voodoo. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 4, 2021

At the same time, the games could only hold 64 MB worth of data , so they had to make a lot out of a little. That means implementing a number of catch-up mechanisms for losers, even if that might irritate skill players. If you have to keep it to a tight budget and cut costs to put some creative concepts on cardboard.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

These models can produce game content, including music, textures, characters, mechanics, and even levels. As a result, it improves the overall game mechanics and makes the game more challenging yet exciting for players. Offers More Personalization The concept of personalization in gaming has become popular in gaming.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games. A large part of Fidget Trading’s massive success was due to the popularity of the game concept and familiarity among TikTok users. Everyone remembers fidget toys, right?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: You can find the previous predictions here.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Let’s elaborate on how multiplayer game design isn’t as simple as just throwing together some mechanics and calling it a day. In multiplayer games, there is a concept called meta which are different strategies used by gamers against one another outside of the game. Adding social elements.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

By leveraging the power of data, mobile game developers can acquire profound insights into player preferences, engagement, and behavioral patterns. Basically, it involves leveraging player data to identify and address issues, driving better immersion and retention. However, achieving such game mechanics is easier said than done.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

By leveraging the power of data, mobile game developers can acquire profound insights into player preferences, engagement, and behavioral patterns. Basically, it involves leveraging player data to identify and address issues, driving better immersion and retention. However, achieving such game mechanics is easier said than done.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you’re looking for efficiency, performance, and data-oriented programming in your game development platform, Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) may just be what you need. It leverages data-oriented design (DOD) principles to improve performance by leaps and bounds.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Self-testing was my primary form of testing in the first and second versions of the game, when I wasn’t even sure if some of the core concepts would work. Yet blind play-testing is critical for making a market-ready board game and there is some data that only blind play-testing can provide. The game can stand alone.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You must think creatively to develop mechanics that surprise and excite the gamer. Thus, you should spend money on graphics and artwork that are in keeping with the concept and aesthetic of your game. Start Small It would help if you started with the small, simple game projects to grasp core concepts.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

This would be a good opportunity to deploy the sample if you’d like to read along and see the concepts in action. Practically speaking, a mechanism for managing Unity licenses may be necessary. This means that data is not sharable between build jobs. For this reason, a retry mechanism is essential.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Some people dislike “take that” mechanics because they’re too mean-spirited, such as the well-regarded reviewer, Rahdo. It’s no use selling a game with “take that” mechanics to him, then, is it? As much as you can, track data on all of this.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2024

Headquartered in Paris and overseeing over 100 studios worldwide, Voodoo operates like a well-oiled, data-driven machine. They test around 1,000 prototypes each year, demonstrating their dedication to exploring a wide array of concepts. Today, we delve into the unique player in the French tech scene: Voodoo.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To manage this situation effectively, Dream11 uses an auto scaling mechanism named “Scaler” to monitor vital metrics such as concurrent user count and request rates, and then allocates resources appropriately. The next section details a recently encountered situation that illustrates this concept.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amazon GameLift abstracts the concepts of managed and custom locations from your game backend. An Anywhere location typically maps to a data center or a group of data centers in a geographical location. You can build another secure mechanism that your servers can use to gain access to AWS access keys.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

A central location to come home to After launching You Suck At Parking, Happy Volcano wanted a central home for their analytics data. David Prinsmel, Happy Volcano’s game director, and their data engineer, Rahul Jani, found that Player Warehouse let them be more flexible around storing and processing their data.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

In this lesson we will begin to fix this issue by introducing size and reach mechanics. I want to know how size relates to space, both in units of feet (because many mechanics reference this real world unit) and in board tiles (where each board tile is the same as 5 feet). Get(this); } set { ISizeSystem.Resolve().Set(this,

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This content may include synthetic data, audio, video, text, and imagery. Generative AI models can produce high-quality content depending on the data they were trained on. For instance, they assist in generating game concepts, gameplay mechanics, and art assets. This streamlines the early game development stages.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Items in Rogue may also be cursed and therefore non-removable except via special means, though that is a tangential mechanic tied more to the identification minigame rather than item randomization itself.) Find a Mechanic who may be hanging around a Repair Station. Cogmind’s Strictly Static Items. Low on treads or armor?

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface. Why is pre-production testing important?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The loss of depth in gameplay mechanics is compensated with a higher weight of the poker-like mindgames. A key mechanic that empowers mind games is the Locations : In a manner that resembles the shared cards in Texas Hold’Em poker rules, on every turn a new one reveals its unique gameplay effect. Source: Snap.fan.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 14, 2024

was globally released on April 11, 2023, and is by far the biggest casual game launch in five years, featuring engaging gameplay that combines classic MONOPOLY elements with innovative mechanics. By focusing on player engagement and fresh mechanics, they created a free-to-play experience that truly resonates.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. It’s also defined a bit differently. You wonder, can I trust them or not?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. Curiously, market data shows that the simpler “Scapes” style games actually perform better than Fishdom. The Core Game Loop.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here’s a quick overview of the entire process of developing multiplayer games, from pre-production to post-release: Concept and Design  Like any other game, the journey of building a multiplayer game starts by creating the game concept. Also, define your game’s genre, interaction modes, and gameplay mechanics.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

The Mechanic I. I was looking for suitable solutions for having both views in the mechanic of the game. Means: The data is available, but it’s mostly raw data, and it’s a ton!!   The idea of a helping instance was indeed present in a very early stage of the concept. Adobe Acrobat Document.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In that sense, like a game atom, puzzle are usually one logical ruleset, and have just one way in which the puzzle operates, which is a systemic machine that can take data variations. One approach might be to gather data on the the wrong solves players assemble, so that over time you can get a sense of which set types are harder than others.

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