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What is the benefit of mechanics that give the winning side advantages that help them win more, such as COD poweups?

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ALT COD's Killstreak rewards are exciting, memorable, and (generally) difficult to obtain. They're similar to, for example, randomly-determined critical hits that deal additional damage or dizzying your opponent in fighting games. Statistically speaking, the killstreak rewards are designed so they won't greatly affect overall game results, but they're really cool to activate and the players engaging with them have a lot of fun.

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A History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects #9: Final Cartridge – Fixing the C64’s Flaws

Jesper Juul

On the occasion of my new book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer , I am writing The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects , posted weekly from November 1 st , 2024: It wasnt all great. The Commodore 64 came with glaring, everyday gnawing flaws that Commodore newer fixed: The tape drive was slow. After a series of unfortunate events, bugs, bug fixes, workarounds, and last-minute botches in the production process, the C64s disk drive was not slow, more like glacial.

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Neurodiversity in the game industry: unlocking hidden talents | HR Summit Video

GamesIndustry.biz

Three months on from the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, and we're making available some of our best sessions from the event.

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Agile Requirements Gathering: Practical Advice to Improve Traceability

Perforce

Looking for an Agile or Waterfall requirements gathering template? These examples and comparison of techniques can help you determine whats best for your team.

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Maintaining Personal Boundaries and Wellbeing as an HR Leader | HR Summit Video

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Over three months on from the excellent (if we do say so ourselves) GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, and we're making available some of our best sessions from the event for you to view online.

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[Android] Play Asset Delivery

Cocos

Unfortunately, I do not have a project to share under this organization. But looking over the images you posted, you should be close. Did you add this step for your main app (the alcatmist project over your organization)? Otherwise, the main app will not know this asset pack scope exists. Take a deep look at the Google documentation and use the Analyze option after building the.aab file to ensure the bundles were constructed correctly.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.4 Desktop Build After Run Error Assets

Cocos

Hi i am using cocos creator 3.8.4 on windows 11 + vs 2022, and then i build my project as desktop or exe. It build the exe successfuly but when i try to run the program it just close window and it appears error log like this: error: [Assets] Run build stage[run] in package X:xxxxxxxxxxbuildprogram-directory failed!Error: [Assets] Run build stage[run] in package X:xxxxxxxxxxbuildprogram-directory failed!

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