Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Players move between fantasy worlds, from medieval to cyberpunk. Avalon has found investment backing from the likes of Bitkraft, Delphi Ventures, and Mechanism Capital raising $13 million in a round announced earlier this year. In-game businesses can be built and sold.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Brandon: That’s a lot of different projects over a lot of different forms of media. Your theme is that critical in order to nail down some concepts first, before diving into game mechanics. Sean: I have been working with artists for roughly 13 years now off and on in many different industries.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Although the “metaverse” is often cited as a busted flush in media circles, social gaming worlds like Roblox and Fortnite continue to attract millions of players. In Theory of Fun I talk about how a lot of those game mechanics are probably driven by survival instincts and hunting. “These days.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

If you’re in it for money, become a sellout, make a fantasy worker placement / area control game for $19. You can rip 100 board game campaigns off there and get a pretty good idea at which price points, mechanics, themes, and art styles make money. I’m going to stop running so many social media accounts.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Research the game’s genre (like fantasy, sci-fi, action) and its setting (such as medieval, futuristic, or post-apocalyptic) to guide your visual choices. Show off the game’s most exciting features and unique mechanics in your artwork to attract potential players. Social Media Banners. Genre and Setting.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sony’s innovative UMD (Universal Media Disc) format allowed users to enjoy movies and music on the go. Games like God of War: Chains of Olympus, Ghost of Sparta, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, and Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions broke new ground. What were some of the most popular games on the PSP?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich. This genre is getting marginalized in the West.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Ready to see how things are going now in the fantasy world of Ailur? Let's dive in. Concept Art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cosmetics have included multiple new collection mechanisms that grant rewards when acquiring enough of a specific type. This is a standard mechanic (synergies) existing in all other autochess games, and in fact it was quite strange that it wasn’t featured in Clash Mini until now. Source: data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. This made it a great fit for cartoons with an adorable style and simple geometry exemplified in Western cartoon media with The Powerpuff Girls and My Little Pony. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados! 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. Trust us.we've got you covered.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. The publisher perfected performance marketing at a scale in the 2012-2016 era by building up a massive team of media buyers, investing heavily on tools and technology solutions.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

The more changes you make to the game, the more monetization mechanics you’ve got to play with. Characters were assigned with event-specific skills and leveling them up was linked to the Buddy rank system, adding a seasonal twist to the game’s traditional RPG mechanics. Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival, aka.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Being on social media too much can give you a hopelessly skewed idea of what most of our customers actually know and care about. I played for a while, had to read a guide online to understand the game mechanics, restarted, and won pretty easily. Every group of people has members who are mean, obsessed, and have free time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha. First, the mini game “DJ Contest” borrows mechanics from rhythm games. On social media, Dislyte has hosted a series of fan activities (e.g. Gameplay: On Giant’s Shoulders Dislyte ’s gameplay is no different from any traditional CCG-RPG, such as Summoner’s War.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

The event kicks off August 10th and runs through the 16th (that's an entire week of bashin' on baddies and getting immersed in the fantasy world of Ailur). The first clip shows a lack of forward momentum when the dodge mechanic is engaged. The second clip shows the broken dodge mechanic during combat with a Twigativa enemy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Riot combined a full-blown media blitz with a Twitch integration that awarded beta keys to people viewing Runeterra streams to secure approximately a zillion eyeballs on their new game for a few days. These shifts focus away from Runeterra’s champion mechanics, which also reduces focus on maximizing those champions through deckbuilding.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In hindsight, we missed the mark in some areas, and nailed it in others Genre / Mechanic: I don’t believe abstract analogs in an crafting system works. My 4 / 5 ended up a 2 / 5] Target Demographic: We were wrong to assume our casual mechanics and style alone would bring in a female audience. So what ended up happening?

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

This kind of unwarranted use of the term in-game descriptions and media articles has been rife lately – it seems that pretty much any kind of random element in gameplay is described as “roguelike” nowadays. So what is Rogue, “roguelike” and “roguelite”? The beautiful ASCII graphics of the original Rogue game.

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