Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. The core gameplay in Gossip Harbor.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

From national calendar days to religious holidays, seasonal events are a great way for mobile games to find new and exciting ways to drive player engagement. We’ve updated the blog post with new seasonal event implementation examples and best practices for introducing seasonal events into your mobile game.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. These titles earned – and keep – respect in the hobby gaming community. Need help on your board game?

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Video games today are far more immersive than ever, and that isn’t simply because consoles and PCs have gotten more powerful. A lot of the beauty and appeal in modern games comes down to a less quantifiable factor: Atmosphere. What Is Game Atmosphere? Compare two games Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Why are certain games popular right now?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, I’ve even said: “ don’t build a board game, build a business.” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Allow me to introduce you to Jeff Beck of Grandpa Beck’s Games. Check it out and see what you think!

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

On his company Twitter account Next Game Level , he introduces himself with a great sense of humor. Game developer from Italy! Although his first game Remote Life was quite successful and his next game Crude already amassed thousands of wishlists on Steam, Malagrino admits to sometimes struggle with motivation.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game? Source ).

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? On the note of mechanics, we were really lucky.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

It’s quarantine o’clock and I’m responding to comments that I got on a post I wrote a few weeks ago: What confuses you about board game development ? This time, I’m going to talk about pitching to board game publishers. Need help on your board game? Board game publishers have to meet consumer demand.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Stirring Up Mess On Twitter Vogel's 1st Law of Video Game Visibility: "No matter how passionate an online 'controversy' about a game is, 99% of its players will never even know about it." 2nd Law: "Outside of 1 or 2 monster hits a year, no indie game will ever be heard of by more than 1% of gamers." It's a tough game.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game. This podcast explains what Fantasy Strike is all about. We cover the high concept about making a fighting game more accessible from top to bottom than anything else we've seen, the specific game mechanics we chose to accomplish that, and the resulting dynamics of how it plays.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It’s no secret that board game publishers like to reduce risks. Most publishers have a system in place to help them filter marketable game ideas from unmarketable game ideas. Yet the process, so heavy on rejection, has left many game designers heartbroken. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2024

This unique ability, previously unseen in Metroidvania games, represents a significant innovation for the genre that the creators at Canadian indie game company Lucid Dreams Studio so love. “In Their debut game, the 2D single-player action adventure Legends of Ethernal, launched three years later.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 20, 2020

Being able to analyze and move forward after failure is critical to your success and a big part of getting your game from Start to Finish. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Mistake 1: Emphasizing passion instead of the game.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board gamers are accustomed to handing over hundreds of dollars at a time on board game shopping sprees. If you look on /r/boardgames or Board Game Geek, you can find no shortage of “shelfies” where people have hundreds of board games. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Box art is incredibly important in the board game industry. Not only are board game boxes beautiful, they are also iconic. People love looking at board game boxes – just check out Instagram sometime. There are whole accounts dedicated to showing off board game boxes! Need help on your board game?

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Innovation can come in many different flavors.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. The two most critical roles in this process are game artists and designers. Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 10, 2017

Becoming a game developer/blogger was my second career choice. It was therefore my great pleasure and fortune to be able to play out my Sergio Leone film fantasies at the game table of my friendly local gaming store. Need help on your board game? After a few rounds, the game is over and you count your cash.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. And that’s exactly the case with the chart toppers Stumble Guys and Eggy Party, two mobile clones of the 60-player knock-out party game, Fall Guys.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists. It’s true.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

It helps supplement the stealth fantasy in a game with basically no stealth mechanics. The tree fantasy meant it all had to feel organic and continuous with lots of curves and slopes. At this point, this first half felt OK to play, but the second half, the actual tree part, wasn't really working for me.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. Here in the screenshot, you can see how our position in the Top100 US App Store grossing games has changed from 2017 to 2020, according to data.ai. The schedule is filled.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. The game Hamster Kombat hit 300 million users. In fact, a reported 20% of Telegram users engage with games.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The social gaming trend is taking mobile games by storm and so the quest to innovate social elements intensifies. Even the single-player casual genres have seen a shift towards more communal gaming in 2021 and it’s expected to tackle the revenue conundrum as well. Let players promote your game, more engaged friends the merrier.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Progress Quest taught us all how simple our brains where and how easily games could use our mental reward systems against us. At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. And honestly, I'd probably spend a lot of time playing that game. It's just a video game!

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Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

It seems like tons of worldwide players are more and more interested in discovering an expert comparison between Japanese games vs Western Games. Japanese games have gained a significant following in the West, with many gamers eagerly anticipating the latest releases from developers like Square Enix and Capcom.

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Raph Koster

JULY 31, 2024

It’s a simple four question exercise you can use to think through what your game is about: What is the game system about? What is the game’s experience about? What is the player’s goal (in the system)? What is the player’s goal (in the experience)?

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ambitious multiverse and Web3 project Avalon’s first trailer dropped yesterday, as well as details of the experienced development team’s plans for the game. The game features action-combat including magical powers in player-vs-environment and player-versus-player modes. In-game businesses can be built and sold.

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Moonmana

AUGUST 15, 2022

Creating a video game is not a simple task, it is a time and effort-consuming, and challenging process. It takes a team of developers, designers, 2D 3D artists, project managers, and producers to work hard to deliver a high-quality and lucrative game that will reach the top. Diving into the fantasy trap too deep. .

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. A busy year inside the project as well.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 11, 2022

My Game is made in RPG Maker MV. RPG Maker has a very bad history of making bad games. And it’s mostly because it’s such a low entry into game development. There’s no programming involved and all the art needed is given to you to make games quickly. Another game before Omori? To The Moon series.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s about allowing players to lose themselves in more than just a game, but a new world. This goal is always top-of-mind for Schell Games. In this interview, we spoke to Schell Games’ Vice President of Product, Charlie Amis, to learn their story. This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games.

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Jesper Juul

AUGUST 3, 2021

For your theoretical journey: Game Studies, volume 21, issue 2. . A Sense of Fear and Anxiety in Digital Games: An Analysis of Cognitive Stimuli in Slender — The Eight Pages. Fear and anxiety induced by games are ubiquitous, but unexplored. Many essays in game studies deploy the concept of liminality.

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