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Webinar Recap: How Mobile Game Developers Are Using IP Collaborations to Enhance LiveOps

Game Refinery

Thats particularly true of the midcore side of the market, with almost 60% of the top 200 titles incorporating them as part of their LiveOps strategy, especially those within the shooting, sandbox, and 4X strategy genres. Nevertheless, Goddess of Victory proves Dave the Diver could work on the platform.

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Indie dev Welevel raises $5.7M in seed funding round

Game Developer

The studio will put its new funding money toward its unannounced sandbox game and its set of AI tools for game development.

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Mirthwood by Bad Ridge Games is mixing genres with something darker and more adventurous

PreMortem.Games

Mirthwood , the debut title from Bad Ridge Games , merges genres like RPGs, life sims, and farm sims into a medieval sandbox experience. Created by a two-person team based in Seattle, USA, Mirthwood represents a creative and personal journey for its developers, long-time friends Brian Hecox and Daron Otis.

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The Minecraft studio and Minecraft YouTuber looking to transform sandbox gaming

GamesIndustry.biz

When I heard that Joseph Garrett, aka the Minecraft YouTuber known as Stampy, was 'joining' 4J Studios to work on a new game, I dismissed it as a bit of a marketing stunt. Read more

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely” 

PreMortem.Games

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. Why did you become a solo developer? “I

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Hypersonic Laboratories raises $7m for modding platform Helix

GamesIndustry.biz

AppWorks, WTIC, KB Investment, and Alex Ekvall also contributed to the round, with the funding going towards further development of Helix. The sandbox platform aims at facilitating the creation of role-playing mods and servers. Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in a series A round led by Play Ventures. Read more