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

Game Refinery

Simulation RPG Vikingard collaborates with TV show, Vikings. Developed by Netease, Vikingard is a casual simulation RPG set in the Viking era. The collaboration involved two One Piece games – One Piece Treasure Cruise and One Piece Bounty Rush – as well as Monster Strike , Knives Out , Puzzle & Dragons , and Granblue Fantasy.

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling. We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.” MUD2 had far more simulation than MUDs did in the 90s … or any MMOs today! UO had that for simulation reasons. Enter “simulationism.”

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Tips For Writing a Video Game Story That WORKS

The Bottom Feeder

Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. Walking simulators are done as a genre, but Stanley Parable was able to be a hit twice (release and remaster) by being funny as hell. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. Humor is hard, and there's never enough of it.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc. Build phase Next, in order to drive the payment conversion, the stats requirements increase quickly in both battle stats and simulations, which means it gets harder to obtain resources.

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A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing. to evoke empathy in the audience or player.

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All Time Favorite MS DOS Games

Game Designing

This fantasy-based game is set in Enroth, where magic rules. This puzzle game provides grids of small shapes of different colors. Using swords and sorcery, all of the best features of classic fantasy are rich in this game version. Solving puzzles is part of what makes this came intriguing. Heroes of Might and Magic 2.

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Donkeyspace AI Interview

Designer Notes

He has now added a fantasy version of the tournament where viewers can bid on different leaders before the games begin and then track their success, as one might do in “real” fantasy sports. I’m curious about all-human, no-AI Civ.

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