Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. The discussion also addressed the challenges of producing quality content for VR.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mobile gaming has experienced an unprecedented surge in recent years, with iOS emerging as a prominent platform for game development. For aspiring game creators, venturing into iOS mobile game development services can be thrilling and rewarding. Tip #2: How to make an iOS Game?

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The process of developing a game doesn’t end with coding and design. Testing the end product is crucial to ensure it delivers a seamless user experience (UX) and meets the industry requirements & standards. Several testing techniques are used to test the game’s readiness for release.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. But in today’s competitive world, the players are unaware of about 80% of the games, while 20% of the games are unprofitable and are removed from the online medium.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Now she builds strategy for and sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

Game Genre. UI, UX Artist - 1. Node Developer - 4. Award-winning educational gaming website offers 1000+ learning activities for kids in grades K to 5, both educational and interactive. Simple, engaging, and colourful interface developed to keep children busy. Educational. App Platform. iOS, Android, and Web.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And if our game’s USP is graphics, then raising the bar for ordinary assets and continuing to refine old content could be an important business decision. Every feature in your game should be presented to every single team member on the project, without exception.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

this Saturday June 12, 2021, we are headlining the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest and I also will be moderating IGDA GDSIG's skipped (due to the cancellation of GDC last year) roundtable, Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL).

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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. Product UX and Aesthetics. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Small-team dev also tends to build more system-driven games because it's more dev-time-efficient than creating single-use narrative-driven content. The tradeoff is that system-driven content also requires significantly more UI to convey all of that information to the player.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

We were inspired by Game Dev Story on the iPhone (made by Kairosoft) and wanted to make a game in that genre with our own spin on it. Our intention was to make a game dev simulator where the player would have finer control over the decisions of what to focus on during game development.

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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. Documentation: More content, better theme. Documentation: More content, better theme. The same content is also available as the 3.2

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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. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics?

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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. Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. But you might not know that he is also a published author , a venture partner at Play Ventures , a very active angel investor, and co-founder of the powerful Next Games. How much content and polish?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

release, with a lot of new content and many updates to existing tutorials to match the 3.2 You can join the translation effort on Weblate and help bring high quality localized documentation to game developers all over the world! Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). feature set. Other changes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

It’s gonna be the work, the creative work of millions of people who can each add their own elements to it through content creation and programing and design. And companies will be able to form to create content that builds out this world. The other critical element of the Metaverse is it’s not just built by one mega corporation, right?

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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 oversee both the foundation and execution of the game mechanics and overall user experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

All of CGs top grossing games have been using the Hypercasual model to monetize players aka showing interstitials and offering an ad-free experience for a premium price. For some games, this is a 1-time IAP. But the vast majority achieve this with a subscription based model that adds new artwork periodically. Ad revenues not included.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

4X games can’t scale by exclusively poaching users from other games -- they need to be able to recruit new audiences to achieve long-term unit economics viability. Successful 4X games developers are constantly bringing new gameplay mechanics to stand out in the market as seen in the examples below. 4 High entry barrier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

I Need a Process (sung to the tune of “I Need a Hero” ) As is the case with every facet of product development and live ops, running the right process is key. 3rd party IPs account for about 20% of the Top 300 Grossing games in the USA (not counting event content). I was not part of the development of either of these games.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Back in 2020, as per Statista , gaming and video made up the largest shares of the mobile content market for the year, surpassing even the increase in education-related apps usage brought about by the disruption in regular school system settings. You can play card games from where you are, when you want and with whomever you wish to.

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