Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We got to work with professional writers and craft stories featuring iconic characters. Hexasort with its new matching mechanic executed so well, is an industry darling. The FTUE, however, features a highly dramatic mini narrative driving a key conversion event. (At The team poured their hearts into the work.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games. The game mechanics are simple: players trade fidget toys and aim to get the best trade. Satisfying to Watch. Self-Expression. Meta layers. The adoption of meta elements has increased.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

We both share the same responsibilities and brainstorm ideas together based on previous data and research on the market. The collaboration extends to game mechanics and gameplay loops, where player feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the final product.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns. This keeps the momentum going and encourages further investment in the game.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bringing Data-Driven Insights to Fans Providing a transparent, global ranking system for LoL Esports teams has been a long-standing challenge and priority for Riot Games. During the tournament, GPR data was integrated directly into the livestream, with casters and analysts using the rankings to enhance their commentary and storytelling.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AppLovin is seeing high-IP games use ad-based monetization from the hyper-casual world, while casual titles layer in complex mechanics. Revamping Mechanics to Match User Expectations Mechanics like tile placement have surged in popularity as they blend accessibility with high engagement.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. You’d be forgiven for mistaking Stumble Guys for Fall Guys. In total, Stumble Guys raked in over 219 million downloads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

When Ahmetcan isnt busy crafting and designing killer features, youll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city. These games blur the lines between hypercasual simplicity and deeper, more engaging puzzle mechanics. Succeed in the market.

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Puzzle Mechanics Tile Games 52

Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Development Time As usual, the end of the year is when I carry out the final compilation of all my financial and development data, especially the latter being recorded in detail on a daily basis. these are the more flexible components of non-game work, unlike web maintenance, business stuff, and so on). The UFD has arrived.

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Beta Writing Content Feature 59

Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

Accelerated networking combines CPUs, GPUs, DPUs (data processing units), or SuperNICs into an accelerated computing fabric specifically designed to optimize. Accelerated networking combines CPUs, GPUs, DPUs (data processing units), or SuperNICs into an accelerated computing fabric specifically designed to optimize networking workloads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Based on a long tradition in mobile gaming, the companies get inspiration and borrow mechanics from each other to the point when the original creator becomes hard to trace. While borrowing mechanics, they sometimes occasionally borrow something more: an expression of those mechanics.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 52

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Advanced Compliance Requirements: Meeting Platform-Specific Standards Console platforms like PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo have compliance standards that cover everything from accessibility to user data handling. This includes gameplay stability, in-game transactions, and complex mechanics like multiplayer integration.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

Also, if a game mechanic has high retention, but other metrics are not as promising (e.g., This data can be easily tracked using Google Trends. How do you choose which trend mechanics to use as a part of the game and which to skip? Do you do any testing of the new mechanics before creating a game prototype?

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Played with Fire

MARCH 12, 2025

Future games might feature fully AI-driven environments that react dynamically to player actions, creating endless possibilities. Issues such as data privacy, AI ethics, and accessibility must be addressed to ensure that gaming remains inclusive and responsible. The answer is a resounding yes. Is AI in gaming ethical?

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The features were reason enough for the wide popularity of the game shortly after its release. Core Mechanics of an Endless Runner Game Game mechanics make a video game engaging and challenging for players. The environment of the game has the player’s character sandboards through the desert which features rain and thunderstorms.

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Mechanics Games Concepts Feature 40

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Features are carefully tested and only introduced when they meet high standards, as the company understands that players today expect polished, feature-rich experiences from the very beginning. This requires a careful balance of data, player feedback, and an innate understanding of the player experience.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. This is none of that.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

. “If we’re really interested in signing, we’re going to ask for something that really articulates mid-game, late-game, scope, features—all of that stuff,” says Handrahan. While they might start with the creative vision, the hard data has to follow.

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Prototyping Concepts Build Development 151

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x, improvements.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. General data on The Ants. The Ants’ grossing rank graph has remained steady (data from Jan 21 to Apr 21, 2022.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

When integrated with traditional marketing foundations like storytelling and retargeting, they hold even more data-rich potential for brand interaction and recall. Playable ads usually start with a short video ad, followed by an interactive game or activity that showcases the features and benefits of the advertised product or service.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Data Protection An important factor to consider when looking for a game development company is data protection. Look for one that cares about your data security and intellectual property.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. Plan content looping during the feature design phase. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. Try different combos, too.

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Mechanics Content Puzzle Games 98

Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This new batch of items in particular is composed of quite a few belonging to the mechanics-heavy very interesting category, so in that regard this spike is quite meaningful. It had already been partially gutted (the imported stat data) by an impossible MediaWiki upgrade path, so I was going to replace it with something else eventually.

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Beta Alpha Mechanics Build 105

Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. Our schemas are generated from a proprietary data definition language that we use to specify all our content data classes. Any recommended small steps to follow for starters?

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Entertainment Game Developer Game Development Development 88

PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

To keep players engaged, the game features a leaderboard that motivates players to achieve better results by solving more complex puzzles. While the game employs a typical monetization approach, combining ads (forced ads, banners, and reward ads) with various in-app purchase offers, it also features a dual currency system for players.

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Puzzle Racing Games Mechanics 104

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 98

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Both feature large open worlds and show the same exact environmental indicators (e.g., Similarities all around Beyond its look and feel, the gameplay mechanics found in Palworld also closely match those from other well-known games. The survival mechanics and in-game tasks draw on Rust. temperature, weather).

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Open World Mechanics Development Concepts 104

Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The game features action-combat including magical powers in player-vs-environment and player-versus-player modes. The trailer features a pretty world of warriors, who flit between environments, with ample tools for building and crafting. In-game businesses can be built and sold. The game’s open beta test is set for this month.

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Racing Content Fantasy Platformer 98

iXie gaming

APRIL 16, 2024

This data offers insights into the effectiveness of your monetization strategies and the overall economic performance. Some features in your game may introduce unintended imbalance within the economy. When these features take effect, they create excessive resource accumulation. Player virtual wallets. Limited player engagement.

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Balance Games Data Game Designer 52

AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Features include Auto Scaling group policies and cooldown periods to fine-tune dynamic scaling performance. To manage this situation effectively, Dream11 uses an auto scaling mechanism named “Scaler” to monitor vital metrics such as concurrent user count and request rates, and then allocates resources appropriately.

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Platformer Data Balance Mechanics 64

Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms. Next, let’s focus on the following initialization function: // Load the resource cache data and execute the initialize game function. json boss : data-boss_0.json

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Code Data Animation Animation 52

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

This quarter’s top 10 features some newcomers that have been around for a while, with one even as long as 2016. Another mechanic to get all of the mentioned above that two games out of five use is the Fortune Wheel. Not only does it allow removing all the ads, but it also unlocks additional game features.

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Tile Racing Puzzle Games 104

AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Additional features have been added to deploy more production-oriented services, such as Unity’s cache server. Practically speaking, a mechanism for managing Unity licenses may be necessary. This means that data is not sharable between build jobs. For this reason, a retry mechanism is essential.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They used data to determine the issue and isolated and eliminated the gameplay element causing the users to quit. Big data, as we know it today, has evolved from its humble beginnings of database management. Additionally, we have also been using game data analytics to assess the effectiveness of game updates by conducting A/B testing.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

comes with a new feature to support the parallel compilation of OptixModule objects containing multiple functions. The payload registers are the mechanism NVIDIA OptiX offers for passing arbitrary data along with a ray, from the caller that traces a ray, and back. Temporal denoising is a new feature from NVIDIA OptiX 7.3

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Focus group testing stands as a critical phase in the development of video games, serving as a valuable tool to gather insights, refine gameplay mechanics, and optimize user experiences. Let’s take a look at the importance of focus group testing and understand the benefits it offers to game developers and the gaming community.

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