Game Design Aspect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2023

Maybe the pitch is for a short form linear single player narrative experience and your company has decided to grow its catalogue of multiplayer lifestyle games. Maybe it’s for a dialogue-driven narrative story, but your expertise is in competitive esports titles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

However, creating compelling PvE challenges requires designing around the tools the player has. Suppose the game designer wants to create a giant cyclops enemy – shoot the eye for massive damage! Esports games extend engagement with characters and monetize with cosmetics.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

Erik Londré: I’ve spent a lot of my life organizing events, and making people have fun, for companies outside games, and more recently, for esports organizations. GameDaily: How did Karta come into being? I became a huge Fnatic fan, and worked for them organizing events and experiential marketing, like after-tournament parties.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya).

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

In such situations, it’s important to figure out why professional players are able to realize so much more potential with a particular class/character/build/etc. while more casual players cannot. Generally, that means the additional performance must come from two things at the pro level - a high bar for execution (e.g.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The initial three founders came together after realizing that existing crypto games — notably CryptoKitties at the time — were unsustainable both technologically and economically. Game Loops and Systems Overview Axie Infinity’s game design falls under the “Turn-based RPG” subgenre, according to GameRefinery’s taxonomy.

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

An early esport competition for Starcraft 2 in 2011 awarded a 1 st prize of $500 and a prizes for players in positions 5-8 25 Bitcoin, worth about $25 then and roughly $1.4 ” (Quoted on page 37 of my book, The Pyramid of Game Design ). So crypto-bros jump on the idea of cryptocurrencies as an appreciating asset.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

And while the IP is very expensive to both acquire and operate, what further supports the business case is the assumption that MARVEL games should in theory drive organic installs while offering low CPIs. The RPIs for Marvel Super War were alarmingly low - as were the installs that reached only 15M to date.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

From the perspective of fantasy art design, it is an ideal goal to set the whole world to be coherent, unobtrusive, and logically self-consistent - But this may not be the ultimate goal of online game design. With a strategy like this, no wonder Amazon has such a strong preference for MMORPGs.

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