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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Titles like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Genshin Impact have redefined player engagement through frequent content drops, seasonal events, and community-driven updates. Continuous Content Updates: Players expect frequent refreshes in the form of character skins, props, and new environments. These include: (i). Common issues include: (i).

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Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Radiator Blog

It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters.

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How making 12 games in 12 months changed Cukia Kimani’s life

PreMortem.Games

Fun fact: Semblance was Kimani and Myres’ graduation project and a bug in it morphed into the game’s main mechanic. The deformable terrain was a bug. When asked about the great performance of his social media content Kimani said “If I could toot my horn a little bit. Some of my content is watchable and some of it is playable.

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GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

Procedural generation of game content by computer software is therefore becoming more and more important as a design technique. The Mechanic I. I was looking for suitable solutions for having both views in the mechanic of the game. Having the character and the story set, the mechanic was implemented. The Mechanik II.

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Roblox 101: How to launch your first game on Roblox 

iXie gaming

While a lot of its success can be attributed to the company’s support with content updates over the years, the key to its mass appeal lies in its ability to let players express themselves by creating their own experiences and games within the platform. Sketch out the basic gameplay mechanics, objectives, and features.

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Rebalancing Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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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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