Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Over time, this could also create a race to the bottom, where speed prevails and quality drops, in that world the developers with established brands and IPs start to prevail as the difference in production value shines through and captivates an audience looking for the anti-AI ad.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Highways & Byways , for example, is a racing game with a board that looks like Ticket to Ride crossed with a highway map. 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.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

Through their data, Happy Volcano realized that people were far more likely to drop off if they didn’t play through some of the single-player races before hopping over to multiplayer. “It As a player, it’s frustrating to join a multiplayer race and get absolutely thrashed immediately. You just end up leaving.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The mechanism is a metal rod, on one side of which the actor is attached, and the stuntman himself is dressed in a green or blue suit and controls the ring at the other end. Many professional stuntmen, like Monique Canderton (link to the IMDb profile ), argue that it is impossible to replace the Wires mechanisms.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

In particular, we focus on game mechanics that encourage community-oriented behaviors, the pros and cons of automated reporting, and how to minimize griefing. Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

In terms of revenue, the genres that took the most damage were: #1 Racing (revenue -28%, downloads +8%) The genre was down early a third down due to a decline across all titles. And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well. while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B. Until next week. ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

As well as by adding deflationary mechanics (sinks) that would limit the potential speculation. A proposition that - in my opinion - removes a lot of the attraction power of the Web3 concept, may possibly mean targeting a different audience than they do right now. I find this concept the most interesting from a gamer's perspective.

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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 #2: F2O FTW Although we have seen free mints long before Digi Daigaku, it was their free mint that brought the concept to the attention of the larger blockchain gaming space.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 28, 2015

Rather than picking “Zergling Rush” before the game starts, you pick the entire race of Zerg. Now that you have the high concept, let’s look at something really fundamental to real-time strategy games and customizable card games: the resource system. This deck thinning mechanism interacts with your codex.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

Finally, this reward mechanism subtly yet effectively onboards players, teaching them how power-ups work individually and in combination. Whether it's a last-one-standing race where only the best can survive or a time-limited challenge to reach a certain number of levels before others, these events always pit you against other players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Hypercasual Trend #1 The Rise of Feel-Good Mechanics Ultracasual is the youngest subgenre within Hypercasual and it seems to have peaked in 2020. Starting mid-2019, the trend to make feel-good mechanics a thing of its own was introduced by the success of SayGames’ Perfect Slices. Nothing new really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. There was no concept of events or free/ earnable content. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really. I realized I wasn't interested in a massive abstract population so much as people.

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