PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Using that list, I move to a broad research phase, in which I check lots of sources for gathering data. Once I consider I have enough data, I move on to analysis. The process of contrasting each of the data points gathered, finding their flaws or shortcomings, what could be done differently, etc. Which are its verbs?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. billion last year.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

update if you want to keep current save data or you are still playing current Pilots. Faction fleet battles are larger, with each side sending more ships to the fight. Help to keep frame rates smooth during bigger fleet fights with carrier builds. Please do not opt-in and install the 2.22.07 Prepare for epic battles!

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Instead of 15-minute, 100-player games, consider a head-to-head fighting title with three-minute game sessions, such as Mortal Kombat 1 , which uses Amazon GameLift. Weve also shown that CCU is an important data point, but only a first step in evaluating scale.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

In this case, it wasn’t so bad, but in general, you want to have to track as little data as possible. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP. ” It felt like a Rube Goldberg machine.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

They deploy live operations that surface real-time data and make accurate predictions on players’ actions. You can get an accurate prediction on customer churn without having to hire an entire data science team or take precious time away from your game developers. This can be the difference between failure and success.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. The exchanges, the free-flowing and expressive combat and how satisfying it feels to land a hit.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I did the entire balancing process without any data at all, and now, after it’s all done, we have the data. Meaning, we were collecting data, I just didn’t have a way to actually look at it until now, after the whole balancing process is basically complete. First, a reminder about what success even looks like. But…we did it.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

From the early days of 3D games, Virtua Fighter was one of the first to show how 3D characters can fight together. In terms of realistic performance, until now, there are mainly two ways to achieve this; animate by hand or use various performance capture techniques to get your motion data.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 30, 2023

They go to Data, but La Forge explains that while the B4 and Soong personalities exist as memory files, Data and Lore are constantly battling within the body for dominance. La Forge and his daughter wake him up, and Picard tries to ask Data what the Changelings might have wanted. C’mon, Geordi, you know Lore is devious.

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

However, if “all” you need is data, then some would argue a ScriptableObject is a better choice. That may well be the case – as one example, all GameObjects will have an attached Transform , which would be unused and unrelated to the data you wanted saved. Kill or be killed.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Game analytics is a term that refers to the process of gathering and analyzing data about games, players, and other aspects of their experience. You can use this data to decide which version of your game is doing well and which parts need improvement. Once your reports are set up, it’s time to analyze your data!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

The decline of the whole genre in the Western markets was caused by a decline in two of the most significant sub-genres: Brawlers and Fighting Games. As you can see from our data above (source: Data.ai) there was only one genre that grew revenues last year: Party games. The Brawlers sub-genre is pretty much Brawl Stars.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Looking at current popularity data of the highest-grossing games of the US market (top 200 grossing games), 23% of casual games and 47% of mid-core games are utilizing minigames. Minigames have continued to grow in popularity since the IDFA changes, especially amongst casual and midcore games.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In that sense, like a game atom, puzzle are usually one logical ruleset, and have just one way in which the puzzle operates, which is a systemic machine that can take data variations. Not that different from fighting one monster versus another using the same combat system in an RPG! But it’d be a lot of manual labor, probably.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In this lesson we will look at making custom boards for our encounters that are data-driven and skinned in a Tilemap. Board Data Let’s begin by creating a ScriptableObject that can live as a project asset and hold all the information we will need to represent a board for our combatants to fight upon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Luckily, you - our dear reader - have the Deconstructor of Fun crew who combine public data and word-on-the-street insights to read between the lines and interpret what was left unsaid by one of the most influential game executives in the World, Mr. Ilkka Paananen. It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fortnite is an action-packed battle royale game where 100 players fight to be the last ones standing. However, it’s crucial to remember that doing this will erase all progress and save data for the game or application, so you might want to think about making a backup of your saved data first. Reset your Xbox software.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s early days, of course, but his ideas carry a refreshingly utopian feel, laced with reams of data and no little amount of empirical pragmatism. Let’s negotiate Prospective employees are shown the data early on in discussions. “Game company structures tend towards a cycle of fighting fires, and all these heroics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

Oleg has built his data-driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. First, it takes a long time to get this kind of data. Getting into an auto-battler like Riot’s Team Fight Tactics is very difficult.

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Game Errors

APRIL 24, 2023

With the Xbox App on PC, Microsoft started to fight for its share of the pie in the face of intense competition in Steam, Epic Game Store, and others. Repairing the app will not change the application data. If you don’t want to shell out the cash for a console, Xbox Game Studios brings a selection of exclusive titles to your PC.

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 11, 2024

Despite challenges like ethical concerns in predictive analytics due to reduced transparency, data dependency for effective learning, and computational complexity existing, navigating these challenges ensures adaptive AI's responsible and efficient implementation. What is Adaptive AI?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Most commonly, projects with a data-driven approach, which dictates the use of data and analytics as the main tools for decision-making and experimentation. We have human characters fighting against time anomalies in a Victorian-era setting. Always ask your players! Many teams neglect this opportunity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

Somebody is going to have to spend billions of dollars building data centers on these, you know, just for all of this activity or using existing data centers along this line. You need file format standards for exchanging data so that you have the same data moving back and forth. Apple is really particularly interesting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and references global figures. And as always, we’ll let the data back us up. With data from the latest completed quarter included, it can be seen that the Q3 2019 QoQ growth rate is back to Q4 2018 levels. But first, a quick recap.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

These include concerns around privacy, data security, and the potential for misuse of these technologies, among others. “The level of immersion that VR and AR offer is unparalleled, but this also means that we are opening up new avenues for data collection and potential breaches of privacy,” he noted.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

iOS: Fix export with manually specified signing/provisioning data ( GH-57203 ). The illustration picture is from Fishards , a wacky fish-wizard PvP spell fighting game developed by Rivernotch Game Studio. Import: Skip S3TC compression even if supported on Android and iOS ( GH-32255 ). macOS: Improve window activation hack ( GH-56700 ).

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Once there, they discover that they have no way to access the information and conclude that one of them will need to join the collective in order to find the data. Zero fights the Borg but is eventually taken over as the Collective capitalizes on their fear of causing harm.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

If you’ve seen them here on the blog before, you may recall that my own tab-delimited Cogmind data files are similar to spreadsheets, and have their own syntax highlighting, but they’re not true spreadsheets. Power source data in Excel, formatted and including updates along with supporting formulas.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

You can then use those signals to give the player what they want and determine who the valuable players are.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery. These common goals can include collectively attacking one very strong Titan on the map (PvE) or fighting a War with another alliance (PvP). Players get matched with another player’s team to fight an AI-controlled battle against it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Source: Newzoo While many data and research companies are providing graphs showing modest growth, further analysis proves otherwise. Fighting against the AI revolution is not the answer. Despite projected growth, the game industry is still lagging behind the lockdown era. I’m inclined to share the sentiment of Mitch and Blake.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Given our data, it seems likely that Casual Casino will not be a mainstay for major Casino publishers, and revenue growth will be pursued through other avenues. Also supported by insights from Lloyd Melnick. Let’s dive in!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and analysed by the author(s). Kudos to their unrivalled data support! Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2:

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 1, 2024

On the other hand if there are less “Hero Positions” than there are Heroes, then you just fight with a subset of your total hero party. Even in our prototype it will already be useful to make sure the heroes populate on the board in a consistent pattern. Get(this); } set { IPartyOrderSystem.Resolve().Set(this,

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. If the player fights bravely to kill enemies, these people will run away and express their thanks through voice, dialogue, actions, and animations. Data: Initial Spike and a Steady Return to Normal Back to the game itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

You can link out to webshops where you can monetize without paying 30%, collect all the data you want, build direct relationships with your players, and leverage all the marketing power the web has to offer to acquire new users. We’ve just finished the first round of this fight, with many more to come. Will Epic continue its pursuit?

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