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Game-Changing Storytelling: How To Integrate Narrative Elements in Mobile Games

Game Refinery

GameRefinery’s motivational data shows Gossip Harbor does things differently than most merge games. Player motivations data: Merge games (Average) vs. Gossip Harbor (source: GameRefinery platform). Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes. Storyline in Diablo Immortal.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. This is primarily because the Korean art team does not have the same historical and cultural burden as European and American teams shoulder when designing western fantasy elements. The rough cutscene). The grand scene).

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

All the content in the game was just data in fields. On the flip side, adding data was really easy. So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. Dikus were entirely hardcoded. So is FFXIV.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

Time Location Event evening 1 Complex fight Egor, discover he's investigating data morning 2 Complex sabotage data array so Egor never sees data evening 2 Town Egor goes to Aleksis' party The Frank fireworks questline works OK, but unfortunately his character didn't really make sense to me. Kind of sad.

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Would “Sword Art Online” Be a Bad VR Game?

Rampant Games

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events.

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The Magic Behind Magicabin’s ARPDAU

Deconstructor of Fun

Metrics for all countries for 2024, data from Sensor Tower ARPDAU for US only for comparison, data from Sensor Tower Game Overview Magicabin is a cozy simulation game centered around restoring an old castle in the woods. The main character, Ruby, is a young witch who has inherited the castle. What could have caused this drop?

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