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Matt Marshall went solo to escape corporate culture and scored a hit with Dystopika

PreMortem.Games

It’s a no-goals, no-management sandbox that allows players to build dark cities that would make Deckard proud to hunt replicants in. Just trying to get a sense of place and then figuring out what kind of mechanics and interactions grow from it.” Marshall created the game while drastically resetting his professional life. A quiet place.

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Cracking the Game Growth Code: Lessons from SciPlay

Deconstructor of Fun

A big part of this strategy was the integration into Light & Wonder , a cross-platform games company known for creating physical slot machines, i-gaming products, and innovative game experiences that connect content, hardware, and systems across platforms and channels.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

When looking at time spent in games, Creative Sandbox games such as Roblox and Minecraft dominate growth in many markets. In terms of downloads, it was Word, Merge, Roguelikes, Sandbox, and Party Games saw a rise in downloads. The lockdowns over 2020 and 2021 significantly increased time on a device. Until next week. ?

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This is needed for some types of game mechanics such as: Projectiles (bullet hell for example). Sandbox style simulations. Still, sometimes, some games require larger amounts of instances but less complex behaviors instead. Units in some types of strategy games with thousands of entitites roaming across a map.

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Things You Need to Know About Metaverse Gaming Platforms

iXie gaming

The Metaverse is not just a new trend in the gaming industry but a whole new way of experiencing and engaging with digital content. These platforms also offer a variety of tools and features to help users create their content, such as games, items, and experiences.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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GTA VI Looks Great, but Online It’s the Real Topic (Opinion)

Deconstructor of Fun

3) USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC) & MODDING SUPPORT: If we look at high MAU online sandbox games like Roblox or Fortnite, we see a trend of enabling more UGC options to maintain engagement high beyond the capacity of the team to deliver content. GTA actually has this, but in an unofficial way through modding.

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