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. Generative AI has experienced increasing usage in game design as it accelerates and streamlines different aspects of game development.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay. I thought that the core mechanic in this 2D game was extraordinary, so I contacted the developers. He’s also planning the overall game design.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I tend to use the word game development as a catch-all term for everything that is associated with making a game – that includes game design, product development, marketing, promotion, Kickstarter/crowdfunding, fulfillment, and selling.

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Unreal Engine Created by Epic Games, it is well known for its advanced rendering capabilities and excellent visuals. Although it mostly employs C++, it also provides a visual scripting language called Blueprints that lets programmers construct intricate mechanics without knowing how to code.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content.

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Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

AI in Game Design and Development AI is not just improving gameplay but also streamlining game development. Game developers use machine learning algorithms to generate realistic animations, optimize in-game physics, and even create procedurally generated content, reducing the time and cost of production.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the previous part of the post, we’ve introduced you to the most important reasons to create a game design document in your project, using three examples: personal project, internal project, and commission work. Core game loop. Core game loop is a base of your game’s mechanics, that will be repeated by the player.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

It's well-made and I can see why it's popular, but design-wise, I feel it's overburdened with too much stuff. The core game design throughline is clear: they loved the Warcraft wood chopping mechanic, and so they made an entire game around it. And it really is a good mechanic.

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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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cocoon, the intricate puzzle adventure by Jeppe Carlsen , known as the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, launched to raving reviews after 6.5 The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 2, 2023

Several of them have dismissed this as a doomed and naïve attempt to be user-friendly, while others have implied that it has to do with recent regulations on loot boxes or with aiming to move away from dark pattern-prone mechanics (which caused a $500M fine to Fortnite - another title oriented to younger audiences).

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Game Daily

MAY 15, 2023

GameDaily: What are the most important features in Meta World My City that you consider to be genuine innovations in blockchain gaming design? Min-Kwan Kwon: We developed Meta World: My City in a way that anyone can enjoy both board games and virtual real-estate collections.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Play-test with game designers. Let’s say you’ve made light games.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

However, I think it’s also promising evidence that there is an appetite out there for this content – a desire to view and evaluate gaming through the lens of impairment and exclusion. That’s a conclusion that should matter to any budding game designer, because it suggests what I believe to be a huge opportunity for the whole sector.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Is it well-defined?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

“If you’re doing a video game campaign, you should not send T-shirts, posters and whatever” For a successful Kickstarter, developers should have a bug-free, visually impressive demo or vertical slice ready, aligning with the final game’s visual standards. Funding goals, influenced by Steam’s pricing trends, are shrinking.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Not just about content, but also design, production, and presentation. Football Game Development Moss conducted over a dozen in-depth interviews with football game designers for the book. His research revealed just how difficult it is to create a great football game.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. We also can’t always repurpose old content for the story DLC. What is the FANTa project?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

Driven by his desire to immerse himself in game design, Kimani rejoined Wits University. Cukia Kimani & Ben Myres He explains, “The reason for me to go back to Wits and do a post-grad in Game Design, to be honest, was the community. I was not just like, ‘hey guys, I made a video game.’

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's The Game or The Story? (57:33 Which Comes First?

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out. The game also hides a bigger unexplained mechanic: a relationship gifting system. A lot of these farming life sim games are really only designed to stay fresh for a single in-game year, and Before The Green Moon is no exception.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

Instead of focusing directly on game development, I’ve focused on learning as much as I can about board games. That includes popular games, mechanics, and themes; well-known designers; and how to run a successful Kickstarter. Want to learn game development?

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. These insights help you as a developer to make informed decisions, refine gameplay, deliver tailored experiences that excite players, and optimize in-game economies.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. These insights help you as a developer to make informed decisions, refine gameplay, deliver tailored experiences that excite players, and optimize in-game economies.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

And so, we quickly realised the potential to form a bit of a ‘Super Group’ by bringing Game Design and AI Tech together. Press B to express Doubt’, for example, is a classic case of mismatch between gameplay scenario and mechanical input. Using natural language and free-text input would clearly be a significant improvement.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

Help game developers unlock their creativity. Goal for Guiding Light 2) Create and curate great social media content. Seek out books, blogs, and podcasts about board games and board game design. This week, I read the Kobold Guide to Board Game Design. Goals: Develop Highways & Byways.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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. For example, if our USP (unique selling point) is a new feature, then its flow really does have to be “invented” using bold design experiments.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

The casual interview setting is the perfect way to ask lots of questions about their game design and game development process. Our AWS GameTime audience will learn tips such as how to kickstart a career in the games industry, how to choose the right game development services on AWS and how to engage an early-adopter community.

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Game Design Advice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Lana Polansky recently wrote a very interesting piece about how we categorize games which includes an examination of the popular MDA game design framework. For me, the greatest strength of MDA is that it emphasizes the “second order” nature of game design. So what are the problems?

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left. By looking at the show from a game design standpoint, I think we see how a lot of it has to end up. Game of Throne is, on a casual viewing, a very complicated show.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. These wildly different ways of playing the game appealed to different, fragmented segments of the audience, and some were more popular than others.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously community interaction is quite important and still plays an ongoing role in development, as always, but at this point I feel it’s more important to focus on expanding content as much as possible. This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!)

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The Knights of Unity

MAY 6, 2020

What is the most attractive thing in games? Hyper-casual games do not have a story, they have little content, and yet it is one of the most addictive genres in the history of gaming. As the name suggests, hyper-casual games are derived from casual games, but they have simpler mechanics and instant gameplay.

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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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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The game development process typically includes designing the game’s concept, characters, and mechanics, followed by programming to implement functionality and create interactivity. Quality assurance and testing ensure the game functions as intended, and ongoing updates may address bugs or introduce new content.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities? Join us for a discussion on what strategies game designers can use to create safe virtual spaces that are enjoyable for all players.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 31, 2023

When creating a game, game app developers analyze player behavior to improve their interactive scenarios, by identifying what works and what doesn't for the players in a game. This is done to refine the game design and create a more enjoyable experience for their audience. Optimize game performance 3.

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