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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. Mechanically, the mode is relatively similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

The anime art style is fairly similar to the one in Genshin Impact, but one of the biggest differences is that Tower of Fantasy players explore the open sci-fi world of the planet Aida, rather than the fantasy setting depicted in Genshin Impact. The open-world of Tower of Fantasy. How is the genre shift shown in the game?

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Analysis • Palworld by Pocketpair: the equal-opportunity offender

PreMortem.Games

It’s an open-world survival craft game where you tame monsters and put them to work. Both feature large open worlds and show the same exact environmental indicators (e.g., Similarities all around Beyond its look and feel, the gameplay mechanics found in Palworld also closely match those from other well-known games.

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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. Breath of the Wild features picturesque natural environments, whimsical characters, vibrant colors, and perky sound effects. Is the game simplistic and easy to understand, or are mechanics obscure and complicated?

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Checkmate: Discussing the Rise of Chess Games on Mobile

Game Refinery

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then.

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Fly around on a broom in cozy adventure Mika and the Witch’s Mountain by Chibig

PreMortem.Games

All of a sudden people were asking for more features, more characters, an extra island, basically a bigger game. Combining the looks of a Ghibli movie with the condensed open world of that game, gave birth to the idea of an apprentice witch delivering packages.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x,

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