Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2020

Along with your box, the theme and mechanics of your game, and the reviews you receive, board gamers will make a decision to buy or not to buy. I even recommend you go to a local gaming store to look at the boxes, still shrink wrapped, and compare them to their prices. It is shorthand for the above questions.

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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. Buoyed by success and a cash prize, they moved “Tribes of Midgard” into production.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can usually find them at Protospiel conventions or even local game stores or Meetup groups. Experiment with a theme or mechanics you’ve never used. “Accessible” is a loaded word in board gaming, but the basic concepts are simple: make games for as many people as you can. My first game, War Co.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

It was a very tranquil concept at first, though we found our prototype didn’t offer enough things for the player to do.” It’s a competitive market, though I’m hopeful the game does well enough so we can build upon it further with more content, refinement, localization and a console release if it’s in the cards.”

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. In my first Designer Diary post for Tasty Humans , I talked about the mechanics of dropping shapes (which represent the titular “Tasty Humans”) in order to fill up the stomach of the each player’s monster.

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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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AWS Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amazon GameLift supports 24 Regions and nine Local Zones—continually adding more support across the world. Amazon GameLift abstracts the concepts of managed and custom locations from your game backend. You can build another secure mechanism that your servers can use to gain access to AWS access keys.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Just Google “rug pull” and you can see how a generations old idiom became synonymous with a certain scam mechanism in the crypto space. Prediction #1: Local optimals will be found If a team wants to develop a mobile, PC or a console game, it is very easy to find an infinite number of resources on how to develop, market, and sell those games.

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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. For this reason, a retry mechanism is essential. In this sample we have proposed a mechanism to solve that issue.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The analogy is morbid, but the concept is simple. Lesson: Know your federal, state, and local tax laws. That means I took way too long to fix bad game mechanics, clean up bad ideas, and so on. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

Outdated concepts, adherence to rigid genre frameworks and the excessive use of microtransactions are the reasons that AAA games not excite us as much as they used to. Sometimes it is an unusual story, innovative mechanics or surprising mix of genres. No localization to some languages. Lower price relative to AAA production.

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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). Then add a ReachProvider with a value of "Long".

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

link] Concept Art. In order to initiate these changes, however, it was vital that we had proper environmental and character concepts to work from so that our 3D modeling team was fully capable of bringing the Kristala that exists in our minds to life in Unreal Engine. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

We’ll cover fundamental concepts of 3D graphics and game design, as well as best practices for building performant and visually stunning web-based games. Developer services such as CodePen and Glitch provide a quick and hassle-free way to experiment with WebGL without the need to set up a local programming environment.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture. Some concepts: More enemies could show up?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Vietnamese developer WolfFun breathed new life into its top-down MOBA Heroes Strike by relaunching it with blockchain-based play-to-earn mechanics. Keep in mind that the concept of “revenue made in the blockchain” is tricky. Thetan Arena (TA) is a fascinating experiment in the burgeoning blockchain space.

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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. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. That’s the core concept from Voodoo.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We checked out a new local game store where we discovered Dominion. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area. Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. Focusing on the experience over specific mechanics is really, really important.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Concept Art. While most of our dev team focuses on preparing an exclusive build of Kristala for Play NYC, our talented concept art team has been pumping out fresh designs for current weapons and items that still need revamped before our official vertical slice is complete.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. Every few years I think about the concept again, and it finds its way into my ongoing notes in yet another location in some slightly-altered form or alongside some other content idea, begging to be implemented.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

That’s just the core mechanic, and about the smallest vision you can have (which is actually what I recommend when starting to build a roguelike ), though even then my vision included an immersive interface and using sensor data to help navigate a living world occupied by both hostile and non-hostile robots. Difficulty.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. The game says you must kill her first, like this, always -- and if she always dies so early, that means her concept doesn't get to interact with anyone else. Limited regen (e.g. No health potion inventory , big change from Dishonored / Prey.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t go heavy on realism, in which case backtracking for this reason can be considered a non-issue and solely a decision to be made within the greater mechanical design, though this does mean progress ends up feeling gamier overall. It’s less of an issue for some builds, though, or if traveling with allies.).

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

You can play single-character matches or team battles, just like in local play. And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. No, and in fact the concept of seeding exists specifically to prevent that from happening. No more UI than that is needed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s more important than ever to protect the hard earned spoils of successful live operations – both by spending wisely and by protecting product leadership from the randomization that comes with new product concepting. A game concept can come from anywhere. Standardizing the materials provided for the process is a good start.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

– a card game (print & play) that was primarily a study of implementing a card-flip mechanic (where cards had different effects depending on which side is face-up) that ended up being fun enough to at least make it publicly available. Garret: Go Fish Fitness – my first Kickstarter print release.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

"Cruising Labyrinth," Andreas Angelidakis Lindell was responding to a specific social context: the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic that utterly devastated the gay male community in New York City, especially the local sex clubs and bathhouses. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player.

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