iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Understand Blockchain and NFT Concepts in Gaming As initially stated, NFT games are based on the blockchain concept. Upon establishing your audience, brainstorm unique features and game mechanics. Here are some fundamental activities involved in NFT game development: Creating the game concept. Develop smart contracts.

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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. Start by defining the type of game you want to create. Programming languages.  Network middleware.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. Before jumping into creating a game, it’s vital to answer critical questions about the game’s type, features, characters, target audience, and platform. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Item integrity loss on use : This concept is fundamentally similar to the disposable mechanic, although not quite the same thing since usage simultaneously weakens the item itself, making it more vulnerable to destruction, and for the same reason damage to the item directly reduces its remaining uses. Very afraid. We shall see.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

This aligns with the concept that although Exiles prototypes are meant to be very good, they’re also usually flawed in some way, such as eventually breaking down, blowing up in your face, or something in between :P. As is the changes are too new and we’ll have to see what real playtesting turns up. Fine tuning.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This year, we featured 22 inspiring creators in our Solo Developers-series and we love to share some of their highlights in these final days of the year. After the loss of my father, I began working on the Bob project and realized that the story and concept had been with me for years, he says. War (what is it good for?)

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. Sample Garrison interior layout (major features labeled), under the old system first introduced in 2015. Some concepts: More enemies could show up? or large (hard to fit the work in?), ” issue.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

That concept had been floating around the studio since 2017. In the original players were able to create custom archfiends from scratch, and while admittedly fun for advanced players and a much loved feature, it created a completely inaccessible entry pipeline for new players.” One was an easy choice, Jumplight Odyssey.

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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. Playtesting is crucial at this point. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. It’s also defined a bit differently.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Playtesting storytelling. Dylan: This was massive because visual learners were totally shut out of the whole concept of upgrading their café with decorations since the verbal explanation went in one ear and out the other. This guide comes in five parts: Play-testing storytelling How do we make stories that resonate?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Concept Art. Now that our concept art team has nearly completed the designs for all existing assets and items in the Kristala build that needed to be replaced with fresh assets, they're now able to move on to creating brand new items that don't yet have 3D counterparts. 3D Modeling.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. The biggest feature request by far, we really want to add cooperative multiplayer into the mix and test it out as soon as possible. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. I’m pretty sure we’ll be doing some more playtests in the near future. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Of course that might make them a little less representative of the kind of system we’d need later, and therefore require more changes down the road (spoiler alert: it did :P), but at least it would be easier to wrap my head around this crazy feature while working on the building blocks. QoL/UI Features. Construct Creation.

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Tom Francis

AUGUST 20, 2019

A lot of people have trouble understanding this concept or just don’t like it. In my playtests this version feels like it gives you a lot more to think about, and more control over your success, which is why I’m ok with allowing a hard failure state. Problem 2: The Shame Pile. Problem 3: Too easy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Concepts like seasonal content, the introduction of event-based currencies, VIP stores are only a few examples of common practices in China in the mid to late 2000s, way before any western game started to adopt them. while competition would ship 3x the features and find success with at least some of them.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Here I take direct inspiration from some of my peers featured in the Cruising Pavilion: architect John Lindell 's "social structure" sculptures and artist Andreas Angelidakis 's "Cruising Labyrinth" (pictured below). My modern PDF edition features modern typography, her last letters, and some historical context and footnotes.

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