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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using In-Game Collaboration Events to Boost Player Retention

Game Refinery

Depending on the type of IP you want to license, collaborations also provide an opportunity to freshen up your narrative elements and gameplay mechanics. How well does the franchise – if it’s a film or TV show, for example – lend itself to your gameplay mechanics? Simulation RPG Vikingard collaborates with TV show, Vikings.

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How to Create Video Game Atmosphere

Game Designing

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. All of this creates a more lighthearted fantasy world. Overall, it is a more moody atmosphere that lends a sense of dread, and this goes along nicely with the hostile game mechanics players will be up against.

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Fantasy Strike's Features

Sirlin

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. Netcode Fantasy Strike’s netcode is a different kind of innovation. Innovation can come in many different flavors. No, you would not.

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Why Harvest Island is Different from the many Farming Genres

Yobob Games

In fact, there’s one game that comes close to it and it’s rune factory, but that’s a flip of a coin because the main goal of rune factory is to farm and get marry just like the other farming simulator. What I mean by a story driven farming simulator is that you have a centralized plot: beginning, middle, and end.

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Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

Game Analytics

Let people play out the fantasy Simulation is key for a successful VR game. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. So if you’re ever stuck for ideas, think about what roles or fantasies your players will want to experience , and take it from there.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators! Of Life and Land Build your own settlements in Of Life and Land and experience different maps, scenarios, and rich simulations.

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Harvest Island vs Stardew Valley

Yobob Games

A Story Driven Farming Simulator. Most farming simulators have dating but Harvest Island doesn’t, so from the get go, Harvest Island is very different from Stardew just by the mechanics and the premise. Harvest Island Game Mechanics. Very much like real life fishing but simplified into a fantasy game.