Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

When integrated with traditional marketing foundations like storytelling and retargeting, they hold even more data-rich potential for brand interaction and recall. Simple gameplay mechanics – The game or activity featured in a playable ad should be easy to understand and play, even for those unfamiliar with the advertised product.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Data Protection An important factor to consider when looking for a game development company is data protection. Look for one that cares about your data security and intellectual property.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With the technology and tools we’re developing alongside our partners, we want to foster a community for our namesake game that is able to create their own content and benefit from it, and immerse themselves in content that others have made and shared.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Succinctly, the Play Pendulum theory suggests that the video game industry alternates between two primary types of innovation: content innovation and distribution innovation. With this framework in mind, we can explore how different eras of the industry have oscillated between content and distribution innovation.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In previous years I’ve opened the review with a collage of dev images of varying themes and content, but approaching the end of this year we have one major theme that stands out, and that I’ll be writing more about below, so let’s hear it for the interface mockups! The first three years there are Alpha, followed by Beta.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Data-driven decisions Throughout initial development and ongoing updates to “Tribes of Midgard,” the Norsfell team monitored Amazon GameLift metrics through its integration with Amazon CloudWatch. 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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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Known for popular game franchises including EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, and Apex Legends, EA regularly releases new game versions to mitigate issues, make improvements, and add new in-game content. The algorithm only compared files with the same name as the updated version, missing cases where data had moved between files.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This growing use of generative AI is largely attributed to its advanced capabilities, including the ability to create unique content. These models can produce game content, including music, textures, characters, mechanics, and even levels. Adaptive Game Mechanics Game mechanics are crucial in modern games.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The loss of depth in gameplay mechanics is compensated with a higher weight of the poker-like mindgames. This has made core CCG fans passionately receive it as a refreshing experience, although retaining them for a long time may put a lot of pressure on the flow of new content.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. Minigames have continued to grow in popularity since the IDFA changes, especially amongst casual and midcore games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On December 12th, 2022, Brawl Stars removed its loot boxes, replacing it with a ‘direct purchase’ system for acquiring content. This translated into a substantial spending for hardcore players that wanted to obtain and maximize new content very fast. All while maintaining the general rules for the regular content.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

That includes popular games, mechanics, and themes; well-known designers; and how to run a successful Kickstarter. In the world at large, primary sources can include all sorts of things: data from your business, academic journals, videos, blogs, magazines, news sites, social media, books, and so on.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As the name suggests, generative artificial intelligence is a type of AI technology that can generate different types of content. 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.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Widely regarded as the biggest trendsetter when it comes to entertaining content, the short-form video content platform, TikTok, has become the new home for viral content. 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.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

Table of Contents Actually, this article didn’t start like this. After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms. json boss : data-boss_0.json Don’t believe it? Keep reading!

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They used data to determine the issue and isolated and eliminated the gameplay element causing the users to quit. Big data, as we know it today, has evolved from its humble beginnings of database management. Additionally, we have also been using game data analytics to assess the effectiveness of game updates by conducting A/B testing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Players often return to established titles after trying these new games, reflecting the powerful gravitational pull of long-established live services that are firing new content on all cylinders. Games that tweak existing mechanics are not enough to break into this entrenched space. We’ve learned that FINALS was not enough.

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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. The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Exiting the data center: A League of Legends and VALORANT story: Riot Games details how it moved two of the largest games from on-premises to the cloud without interruption. To view additional recordings from re:Invent 2023, visit the AWS Events content page.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

On reviewing the data I’m happy to see that my game-to-non-game-stuff work ratio has continued in my preferred direction (I shared a graph and more info about this trend back in the 2020 review ), so more working on the game itself and less community-facing marketing-type stuff. Cogmind Beta 11 release art, by Zyalin.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New content releases would drive intermittent spikes in revenue, that would push revenue up to between $500k and $750k. However, as seen in our Daily Revenue data provided by data.ai, starting in October the game has been seeing significant growth in revenue. It is my belief that we are starting to see that effort bear fruit.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Gameplay Mechanics Although both of these titles have many similarities, some key differences have made them unique from each other. This characteristic has created many more contrasts, particularly in the shooting, movement, and overall game mechanics. The movement mechanics in Fortnite is very basic.

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 1, 2024

If you are not already familiar with this game mechanic, you may read about it here. Maybe there was a momentous incident, maybe you had to return to …" }, Other Backgrounds listed here. ] } Just like with Ancestries, I have structured the data to be more compatible with Unity’s Json utility.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. A big part of the game is allowing players to express their creativity through combat mechanics, character customization and all kinds of shenanigans on the battlefield. So, we had to be smart and make everything dynamic.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Making Early Content. Be sure to consider your Content Mix when you are backdating posts and scheduling future ones. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. As a review, here is a quote about Content Mix from How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

While the game does wisely stay away from "I can't believe I left my favorite soil analysis under my favorite rose bush" there's never any gorgeous brain leaps like "her evil mentor hid the soil data so it's actually in the opposite room" so overall it often feels disconnected from its environment. What affects this plant's color?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

Another mechanic to get all of the mentioned above that two games out of five use is the Fortune Wheel. Leveraging its extensive catalog of content, Magic Tiles 3 uses Subscriptions to drive LTV from day 0. In the short term, Piano Fire: Edm Music & Piano generates revenue via Rewarded Videos by offering its content one-by-one.

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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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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 17, 2024

When I have a large set of content, like lists of monsters, skills, or in this case, ancestries, I prefer that the “source of truth” exist outside of Unity. Some choices I have used in the past include things like spreadsheets or even json data. We are going to build an Ancestry as a project asset.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns. The match3 puzzler Best Fiends demonstrates this well.

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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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