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Video game mechanics: A Beginner’s Guide

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There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics? So let’s get started.

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The Play Pendulum • A theory of innovation cycles in interactive entertainment

PreMortem.Games

Joost van Dreunen argues there’s a deeper, cyclical pattern that explains why interactive entertainment has entered a down period. Succinctly, the Play Pendulum theory suggests that the video game industry alternates between two primary types of innovation: content innovation and distribution innovation. Enter the Play Pendium Theory.

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Q&A with Remedy Entertainment: Adopting USD into the Game Development Pipeline

Nvidia

Now, he’s director of technology at Remedy Entertainment, the studio that created Alan Wake and Control. Currently, I’m working as director of technology at Remedy Entertainment focusing on our Northlight engine development. On the workflow side, it took more effort than initially expected to adopt new content pipelines.

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Button City by Subliminal Gaming wins the 2024 Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge

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Best in Innovation – Don’t Forget Developed by: Digital Arts And Entertainment (Belgium) Recollect your memories by looking for clues and playing brain-stimulating minigames while battling the effects of dementia. Through innovative mechanics, they provide a unique perspective on dementia. Download the game here.

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Web3 metaverse MMO Avalon unveiled in new trailer

Game Daily

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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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

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From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. It contains the game’s proposed design like the concept of the game, genre, core game mechanics, gameplay, timeline, illustrations/sketches, story and characters, levels and monetization strategies.

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5 Real-World Applications of Extended Reality

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Augmented Reality or AR is a process where the system overlays the digital content over real-world environments in real-time. Discover how our cutting-edge XR solutions can elevate your gaming and entertainment projects to new heights. And, Extended Reality technology reorients the mechanics involved in optimizing marketing and sales.