Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Let’s take a look at a few different situations: A producer can’t tell you which metric a given feature is targeted at or explain why a given metric needs to be changed to meet a KPI. They limit themselves to mechanical testing and don’t raise a red flag if a feature “doesn’t play right” or breaks the gameplay flow of adjacent features.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

Work closely with User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) designers to improve the player interface. By incorporating rewards into your game, like virtual items, in-game currency or access to premium content, you can encourage players to complete the given tasks, thus increasing their motivation.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Appealing UX/UI of A Game. To make the game innovative and fresh, you have to make few updations in the game at regular intervals, like adding content, levels, features, or characters. When there are thousands of games available online, why and what is the reason for a player to choose your game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 18, 2023

2) ROLEPLAYING & SLICE-OF-LIFE FEATURES: One of the most popular ways of playing GTA online games is roleplaying, where users take the role of not only criminals but also regular citizens (police officers, firefighters, paramedics…). And currently it composes a significant part of GTA streaming activity as well.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

That I keep revisiting this aspect whenever I add new content shows that it is indeed an ingrained part of the vision. There’s never a shortage of tempting ideas and feature requests out there! Difficulty. I want my games to be challenging but fair.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Makes all of the high level decisions, including major features, story, world building, budgeting, scheduling, team composition, marketing, contracts, etc. All designers and content creators answer to him. UI/UX Designer : Puts things where you expect them to be, so you don’t have to get annoyed trying to make it do what you want.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. now and read on to learn more about its history , our support plans and the many new features in this update. Download Godot 3.2 March 2019).

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “It’s also, I think, in some ways a little scary that one device from one single company can theoretically replace every single device and can now sit right between the consumer and all the other content out there,” he mused. The discussion also addressed the challenges of producing quality content for VR.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Looking at the numbers, the first soft launch had three phases: April 2023 - Aug 2023: New content and new features (events) Aug 2023 - Dec 2023: Only content updates Dec 2023 - April 2024: No updates This suggests that the game lacked the same uptake and momentum that Royal Match saw.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 Some of those features had already been partially implemented before the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 Other changes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Image above showcases sub-genre position for May 19 to the 17 of June, 2024 The fact that Microfun has managed to climb to the second position in the US is incredibly impressive, given that the merge game space is highly competitive and already features a range of titles that is developed in the West.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable. update to the 3.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. 2019 Prediction #2: Existing top apps will incrementally improve live ops and content, and experiment with new meta concepts, additional currencies, and deeper/more complex social structures.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Interesting approachability / accessibility UX here. These 3 features are clearly more important than the cave theming, so here I think the better move would've been to cut the cave stuff and set it in a generic lost valley or something. Felt like they had to cut down 50% of their planned content, which is never easy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Additionally, many languages require advanced font shaping features to handle diacritics and letter combinations, which are often fundamental for any accurate rendering of these languages (see e.g. Is this Arabic? Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. for a light-hearted crash course).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems. For comparison, that’s a similar seasonal pace as TFT , a more established title with tons of content and higher degree of mastery depth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

Battle Royale focuses on a last-man-standing player vs. player Battle Royale mode, often featuring drivable vehicles and little to no power progression. These games feature real-time combat and competitive PvP gameplay. These games often feature open maps with drivable vehicles and little to no power progression.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Previs animator - Previs artists create and block out 3D digital content that helps visualize what a scene, set, or certain actions will look like before it’s filmed, created, or finalized. They will experiment with different camera staging and rough animation using proxy and production-ready assets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Indeed that’s the expectation for almost any game, that the majority of players can participate and experience most of the content (at least in theory). This is especially true for games where progression is content-based like Single Player narrative games and compounded even worse by designing a market where it is automatically oversupplied.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This makes it imperative to iterate the importance of gaming analytics services as with a bigger player churn, there is more data that can be collected to improve a game’s UI-UX. Each of the common room trailers features the player wearing a house-specific variant of their robes. Morality System, Quidditch & Exclusive Content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. Secondary character guide.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

And given how important content is to the players of these games, this subscription offering naturally became a key revenue driver for CGs. Though during the fateful month of February 2019, iOS users saw operating system features added by Apple that made subscription management much more user-friendly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Some content, I just record and publish. You need the UX to work. If you're a content business, a creative business, then you don't really need tech. And you should not assume that there's gonna be one feature or one function or one change that's gonna make it good. This one, I’ve watched or listened to 5 times now.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In live ops, these review processes are well-defined: systems and economy design, merchandising, UX, data analysis, and sprint planning for features that drive KPI improvements, better player segmentation, and improved UA funnels are the foundation of F2P mobile product success.

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