Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

This prediction is written by Michail Katkoff and Buğrahan Göker. Access all previous predictions here. This report wouldn’t be possible without the help from our friends at Sensor Tower. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 29, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The third of these bank decks is Steam Crank. Steam Crank introduces a new mechanic: the chain combo. Many cards have a strip at the bottom with a “chain” ability. The chain ability happens if the card you played immediately before it that turn is the same color.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

JANUARY 28, 2022

To put it lightly, performance is everything in a modern business. If you’re not doing it quick and efficient enough - someone else will. But lets not hang too much on that, this post is about changes we made and how we need to shout about those. Here at Sky Betting & Gaming, we create some spectacular websites and apps (but you already knew that).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Godot XR contributors are delighted to release our latest version of the Godot OpenXR plugin! This release contains several updates to provide Godot XR developers access to the latest and greatest XR APIs and features. Download. The plugin can be retrieved from the asset library. Requires Godot 3.4 or higher. Highlights. Updated XR Documentation.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 25, 2022

Hey all I’m back with a look at a topic I should really cover for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about Story vs Lore! Story? Lore? What’s the Difference?: Recently I saw something that really crystallized my feelings on why I had such issues with Destiny and it’s various updates prior to Forsaken. When I say Story I’m talking about the “story” told in-game experienced by the average person who just loads up the game and plays through the campaign and maybe the raid if they got lucky.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 24, 2022

Every year the filmmaking industry experiences a very important and exciting season - the season of festivals and awards. For all film lovers & nerds this is a great opportunity to re-discuss the hottest novelties of the past years, as well as to finally find out which film, director, cinematographer, composer, etc. was the best. So every year we look forward to this period and wait with bated breath for the announcement of all the winners among the many nominations.

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Muha Games

JANUARY 18, 2022

Diplomacy Diplomacy is an integral part of the Master of Magic gameplay. It refers to the interaction between the Wizards. This interaction ranges from the initial meeting, to trade agreements, peace treaties, throwing out threats or joining an alliance, as even though there can be only one, sometimes it is… Continue reading.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2022

You did this. YOU. I have a pair of interesting role-playing exercises for you. A pair of moral puzzles for your enjoyment. If you release any words or art in a public space, even if it’s just one picture or drawing or Twitter joke, the issues below should be of some importance to you. Situation Number One About 15 years ago, I wrote a humor piece called, "Helpful, Non-Threatening Quiz: Am I a Serial Killer?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Welcome to a Godot showcase developer interview! This week, we interviewed Ben Kurtin about his experience developing and releasing a VR recreation of the hit rhythm game Friday Night Funkin'. Introduce yourself in a few sentences. Hi! I'm Ben Kurtin, better known as ThisIsBennyK on YouTube , Twitter , and TikTok. I've made several games in the past couple of years, with projects ranging from a simple 2D platformer to the very VR rhythm game being showcased here; and that was all done while I wa

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 21, 2022

Hey all this week for Retro Game Friday I’m back with the spiritual successor to the Pokemon Stadium games. It’s Pokemon Colosseum! Plot: Honestly the plot is not the greatest, but this is a Pokemon game, you don’t play it for the story. Gameplay: Unlike most Pokemon games there is no Random Encounters and you only gain party members by stealing them from your opponents.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney. Opinions shared are personal and do not reflect those of their employers. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini? Head on over to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast or click on the episode below! This post is sponsored by Xsolla. If you’re interested in growing your business on mobile and beyond, look no further.

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Darner's Digest is a series of blog posts about Yarn Spinner, a free open source Unity dialogue tree plugin. On December 21st, 2021, the Yarn Spinner project finally made its public YS v2.0 for Unity release. YS 2.0 has gone through six (6!) preview versions / betas over the last few years, with several debates and redesigns that have finally culminated in this version.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 23, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The second of these bank decks is Dinosize. Dinosize is home to big effects. Ridiculously big effects. Let’s start off with a BANG: Holy moley! A quadruple crash is absurdly powerful. The cost looks prohibitive though. You only get 3 actions per turn by default, though some cards and characters can occasionally give extra actions.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 17, 2022

What do people care about? This is a very general question, we understand. But after a little thought, you might hear the following: global warming, politics, economics, social justice, faith, etc. But no matter how you think about it, people will always be concerned with the question of truth. Truth has always been the basis of argument and debate.

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Game Design Aspect

JANUARY 16, 2022

What a thrill to do this interview with Bisila Bokoko on Negocios TV , a business channel. Bisila Bokoko herself is a truly awe-inspiring woman and she has helped female entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. We chatted about different topics regarding the video game industry including how to help women break into the game industry and the importance of female game players.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 17, 2022

Hey all I’m back with another entry in a Jackie Chan series for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s Rush Hour 3! Plot: The plot is mediocre, but frankly it’s a lot weaker than the previous two entries in this series. Actually the script is horrible. Casting: With Tucker and Chan being our main stars I expected better out of this when I first watched it. Looking back Rush Hour 3 was just not great, and even Jackie Chan couldn’t salvage it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

Godot 3.4 was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 have since been merged and are now ready for wider testing. So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 12, 2022

(This is a humor piece I wrote a long time ago. It is objectionable. Posting this is part of an experiment. The second part comes out next week.) As anyone who has been paying attention knows, the most important single element holding American culture together is serial killers. Those crafty fellows are everywhere, with their wily ways, their suave manner, and their masks made of skin.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 20, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The first of these bank decks is Haunted House. Discarding cards is generally bad to do, but Haunted House turns that on its head. It’s full of cards that do things when you discard them, like these: All four of these cards are reasonably powerful on their own, without any special discarding going on.

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Digital Ephemera

JANUARY 12, 2022

[This is a continuation of content found in the book, Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language , featured in Chapter 11 and Chapter 12]. When working with ink, it can be tempting to make an entire project one long file. This can often lead to thousands of lines of ink code and complications with debugging. Trying to find the exact place where a problem is happening can be incredibly frustrating.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2022

It is no mystery that the goal of any film is to make the viewer believe in the fictional world on the screen. Of course, this is not true of documentary films, but believe us, there are genres of documentaries that blur the line between fiction and reality. But we'll talk about that some other time. The fact is that we don't even think about the path that each film takes during production.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 13, 2022

Hey all I’m back with the sequel to one of my more enjoyed novel’s this past year for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s Fushi no Kami Volume 02 by Amakawa Mizuumi! Plot: The plot picks up shortly after the last entry with Ash and Maika headed to the local city where they attend the local academy and continue Ash’s plans to regain the comforts of his past life.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2022

Welcome to a new Godot showcase developer interview to start off the new year! This time, we asked Justin Arnold about his experience developing and releasing his project RPG in a Box. This "engine within an engine" demonstrates that Godot is not only capable for game development, but also for creating applications with complex user interfaces.

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Designer Notes

JANUARY 10, 2022

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer, best known for his work on Icewind Dale , Fallout: New Vegas , and Pillars of Eternity. They discuss the purpose of grinding, the difference between viable and optimal characters, and why RPG players don’t welcome rebalancing their games. This episode was recorded March 24, 2018. Games discussed: Baldur’s Gate series, Icewind Dale series, Neverwinter Nights , Fallout series, Civilization series, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows , Neverw

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Sirlin

JANUARY 18, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s base set comes with 10 characters to choose from. Each character has three cards and you start with those in your deck. Each character has different strengths, so they push you in different directions when building the rest of your deck. To give you a taste of these characters, here’s just one card from each of them. Grave, Wind Warrior.

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Game Design Aspect

JANUARY 9, 2022

Hello! It's January 2022. Though I haven't been updating the blog, that doesn't mean I wasn't presenting or doing interviews. After SXSW and CIMFest , I participated in two MCM London Comic Con panels, "The Art of the Onomatopoeia" and "Creating Diverse Characters for Comics and More." I presented at SIEGE and Serious Play Conferences and was interviewed by Women in Games and Negocios TV.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 4, 2022

The majority of esports professionals today tend to play on high-refresh-rate 240 or 360 Hz monitors, the bulk of which are available with 24 to 25 inch. The majority of esports professionals today tend to play on high-refresh-rate 240 or 360 Hz monitors, the bulk of which are available with 24 to 25 inch diagonal sizes and 1080p resolution. In the past, we’ve seen that higher refresh rates help aiming performance, particularly because of the lower system latency that comes with them.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 9, 2022

Hey all I’m back for this week’s Anime Sunday with a look at the upcoming season. It’s my Most Anticipated Winter 2022 Anime! Pupil of the Wise Man: So I was expecting this to air last season, as you might have noticed in my post a few months back, but it turns out I missed the announcement of it being set to air this season instead. This is a delightfully fun Isekai/LitRPG series that has a gender-bent main character because he wanted to make the “Cutest” avatar ever with a RMT item he had on a

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2022

Well, it's 2022 and everything is turning out exactly as I predicted back when I was 7. Self-driving cars, space stations, the internet. Nailed it. Favorite TV show of 2021 was Only Murders in the Building. Favorite game of 2021 was Loop Heroes. Favorite book of 2021 was Einstein's Fridge. Favorite rediscovered joy of 2021 was reading physical books.

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Harold Serrano

JANUARY 8, 2022

In this Youtube short, I share with you resources to help you integrate Multi-Player Gaming Support into your game or game engine. Thanks for watching.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 15, 2022

The second community bank deck in Puzzle Strike 2 is Birthday Bash (the first is Grand Melee). Presents The main mechanic of this deck is opening birthday presents. It gets pretty crazy, but let’s start with the basics. Here are some cards that give “presents”: As you can see from the help text at the bottom of the cards, getting a present means you draw a card and play it for free.

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Rampant Games

JANUARY 26, 2022

Yes, things have been quiet here. Due to hosting issues, and the fact that the writing thing has been taking off, and the day-job shifted into overdrive a while back that was nearly as bad as the games industry. We won’t speak of what’s been going on with 2020 and 2021. With all that, my own indie game development efforts have ground down to tinkering levels – mostly with Virtual Reality.

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Smart Fox Server

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since the release of SmartFoxServer 2.18 we have introduced a way to override the default implementations for the Room Persistence API so that they can be customized to your needs. Prior to this release we provided a file-based and a relational database-based storage mechanisms that could be used in conjunction with the API to save the state of multiple active Rooms.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Hey all I’m back with the latest entry in Jack and companies adventure for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s Island Jumper Book 04 by M.H. Ryan! Plot: This entry is pretty intense, and really gets our heroes into the thick of things with the mysteries continuing to pile up. Honestly it’s easily my favorite entry in the series thus far. Characters: We get introduced to a few new characters, but Lyra is probably my favorite of the newcomers.

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Catnip Games

JANUARY 10, 2022

Tiny Player version 1.5.2 is out now on iOS. This update contains two fixes: Always show IPv4 address for uploads (instead of mangled IPv6). Fix dark mode background color in player controls area. If you encounter any problems, please let me know.

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Harold Serrano

JANUARY 20, 2022

Hey guys, In this live stream, I tried my best to answer all of your questions on game engine development. Thanks for watching.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 13, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s base set includes 10 characters and two different community banks decks. Each bank deck changes the feel of the game. Those decks are Grand Melee and Birthday Bash: In this article, I’ll explain the thinking behind the Grand Melee deck. Think of Birthday Bash as a steak with a distinctive steak sauce, while Grand Melee doesn’t need the sauce; it allows the natural flavor of the meat to come through.

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