Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Looking ahead, the biggest opportunities I see for growth and innovation in 2025 will center around advancements in AI-driven content creation, new monetization opportunities utilizing e-commerce, loyalty programs, and hybrid casual. Some of the leading platforms include: Midjourney: For high-quality visual content. Poolday.ai

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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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. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Casual Games went Hybrid: These are tailored for a broad audience with straightforward mechanics, usually aim to sustain player engagement to boost revenue via ad monetization. This strategy proved to be one of the most effective of the year, demonstrating the importance of keeping existing players engaged.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

King, when they ruled the casual puzzle space, chose to expand the breadth of their casual portfolio: Bubble Witch Saga (bubble shooter), Pet Rescue Saga (collapse/blast), Diamond Digger Saga (digging/water flow mechanic), Blossom Blast Saga (linker), Pyramid Solitaire , etc. Golems in action.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. You research it, you acquire the gear and skills for it, and you’re ready to use it… and then you run headfirst into a bunch of enemies who are mostly or completely immune to that mechanic.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Highways & Byways , for example, is a racing game with a board that looks like Ticket to Ride crossed with a highway map. Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Some people dislike “take that” mechanics because they’re too mean-spirited, such as the well-regarded reviewer, Rahdo.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Tap the button and you’re off to the races! And meta-game systems such as leader-boards, events, and battle passes need to be interesting enough to scale for months and months — ideally with very little new content needed to be developed by the publisher. You may also come across a game via a sponsored/influenced post on X or Discord.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

As well as by adding deflationary mechanics (sinks) that would limit the potential speculation. It also means that the assets need to be designed in a way that they maintain their value, which makes it more challenging to introduce new content which is a requirement for long-term sustainability. UGC (Content Creators and Spenders).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

In terms of revenue, the genres that took the most damage were: #1 Racing (revenue -28%, downloads +8%) The genre was down early a third down due to a decline across all titles. And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well. while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B. Until next week. ?

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. You research it, you acquire the gear and skills for it, and you’re ready to use it… and then you run headfirst into a bunch of enemies who are mostly or completely immune to that mechanic.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

In particular, we focus on game mechanics that encourage community-oriented behaviors, the pros and cons of automated reporting, and how to minimize griefing. Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Save for a few unicorns ( Fortnite , AFK Arena ), the genres and game mechanics feel to me largely unevolved. it can make W2E feel very rewarding.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 24, 2024

Adapting Your Game Content Across Different Cultures The ultimate goal of localization testing is to ensure your game and its content align with the cultural values and norms of every region. Also, it frustrates players as they struggle to understand or decipher your game content. Translation errors hinder gameplay. The outcome?

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I then created a new project and empty level, built the width of that straight section and started recording the motorcycle and vehicle actions using game mechanics and take recorder. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map. REAL-TIME 3D COURSES

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

.” Oneal, who is Asian American and gay, called on game industry workers and managers “to think about what you can do to make everyone around you – no matter their gender, race, or identity – feel welcome, comfortable, and free to be themselves.” ” This kind of change is a long and hard road.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

The mechanics for choosing events and how they affect the player are transparent and easy to understand, which was necessary because, as with all board games, the players have to do all the work themselves. Many of the mechanics and systems from Civ that I’ve rejected with Old World are ones that I came up with myself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

The biggest string-matching game by far is Best Fiends, which is categorized as a Puzzle RPG due to its progression mechanic. We are predicting Peak Games’ decline and eventual sale because: The company has not released a new game in years The market growth is driven by Puzzle & Decorate games, which require massive amounts of content.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

With over 90% of the top-grossing 100 iOS mobile games using seasonal events to boost their revenues, national holidays have become an essential part of LiveOps with players expecting an influx of new content as we approach the holiday seasons. Zombie Frontier 3’s Christmas content Event-related offers (e.g.,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Tencent is known to put several of its studios into a race against each other.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There was footage of the common rooms and brand-new gameplay that was released earlier this month- which gave an insight into the game mechanics, setting, and characters to an extent. The PlayStation State of Play event introduced the mechanic where the player is able to learn different spells from companions across the story line.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

Where possible, we wanted to convey that through the cards and make the player feel the happiness and contentment of the world. Race and Class. I found the set far less exciting without our marquee mechanic, and ended up sending at least one impassioned email to Aaron to try to find a way to fit it back in somehow.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. Another MMORPG-related bias was the expectation of continuous content updates, visually different challenges/upgrades and a metagame focused on progression and cosmetic rarity.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. Popular Games Made In Unreal Engine Fortnite Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and distributed as three different game modes using the same engine, so each one has similar graphics, art assets, and game mechanics.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. And the battles kind of suck. Let’s talk about that. You can date in this game, but only women, because Adachi is a man.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The race then begins to draw and discard until one player positions ten cards in numerical sequence. The game is based off of Rummy, and players complete against one another in a race to complete 10 specific card configurations in order. Meeple Word Cloud of Game Mechanics. Sounds like a winner to me! Sound simple?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. King vs. Playrix - The Two-Horse Race Every year, Playrix and ABKing are neck and neck in the race to be a top Puzzle publisher. Nine games in the top 10 have the well-known, traditional Merge-3 mechanic we know from undisputed king ‘Merge Dragons’.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game. This functions as your appointment mechanic - eventually your chest will become full with all this automatically collected rewards. This is a major appointment mechanic, driving the player to come back each day.

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