Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

David Prinsmel, Happy Volcano’s game director, and their data engineer, Rahul Jani, found that Player Warehouse let them be more flexible around storing and processing their data. As a player, it’s frustrating to join a multiplayer race and get absolutely thrashed immediately. It makes sense when you think about it,” David said. “As

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Whether that’s a platformer with running and jumping, a racing game with accelerating and braking or a FPS with moving and shooting. However, if you’re competent in the engine (Unity, Unreal or similar) and have studied to understand how VR games are built, then it’s achievable.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Tap the button and you’re off to the races! Engineers need good knowledge of how to code the crypto layer and how to integrate with wallets and airdrop / reward coins securely in a way that can’t be easily hacked or botted. You may also come across a game via a sponsored/influenced post on X or Discord.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Title screen for Ewald's cinematic in Unreal Engine. What started as a two-week previz class to learn Unreal Engine’s 'Take Recorder' quickly transformed into a full-on action cinematic and, ultimately, Menace. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

Drader explained, “Batting is the key mechanic in ‘SMB,’ and we are conducting extensive analysis on pitch locations and outcomes, then tweaking the gameplay as needed. We’re also looking at the multiplayer experience for our online competitive mode: pennant race.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. In the current example, the game engine code is pulled from GitHub and the game assets are imported from a custom SVN repository. Build containerized game servers with AWS Developer tools.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

.” Oneal, who is Asian American and gay, called on game industry workers and managers “to think about what you can do to make everyone around you – no matter their gender, race, or identity – feel welcome, comfortable, and free to be themselves.” ” This kind of change is a long and hard road.

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Tom Francis

JANUARY 22, 2019

The design part is hard to track though: I find most productive design thinking comes from a big engine in the back while you’re doing other things, as it randomly matches disparate ideas and sprinkles them with what you’re currently experiencing and asks: “Is that anything?

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

I tried out a series of mods to see what was possible and was surprised to see how effectively people could push the Civ engine to create something completely new. I accidentally built a interactive fiction engine inside of a 4X game, and I am very excited to see where our writers – and the modding community – can take it.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. Programming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This unique mechanic turns a typically harmless object into your only line of defence against vengeful spirits. The sanity mechanic, where staying in the dark for too long or witnessing horrifying events affects the player’s grip on reality, adds to the game’s intense atmosphere. The Last of Us 9.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Path of Exile is the current state of the art for RPG addition engines. A thousand hours of looter shooter game can't rely on story, so the player must be made to feel good with the game mechanics. What makes you scared or gets your heart racing? Dawg, does that bow have FOUR upgrade slots? SIGN ME UP! Bar goes up.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

The prospect of building newer and better technology drives engineers like Vir Garbarean, purple’s Future hero. Vir is a pretty great engineer, and this monster of a mech is proof of that! The forecast mechanic involves units from the future arriving in our time. You have to be sure to actually win that race.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

Race and Class. I started thinking about how we had just recently done the race/class update, where all cards now had a race (a card that used to be just "Cleric" would now be "Human Cleric") and all sentient races now had a class (instead of just "Elf" it would be "Elf Warrior"). Suddenly everything was so much easier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. Post launch, those were replaced by a re-engineered version of “Crew Expendable” from the original MW.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

So I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that "learned" how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really. I realized I wasn't interested in a massive abstract population so much as people.

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