GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 9, 2023

That fight began with Epic's attempt to sell Fortnite virtual currency directly to iOS users without going through Apple's App Store payments processing system, denying the platform its usual 30% cut of revenues. It's the latest escalation of the 2021 court case between the two companies.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Promotional collaboration events popularity across US, China and Japan (source: GameRefinery SaaS platform). Promotional collaboration events in the top 10% (Revenue) of China midcore games (source: GameRefinery SaaS platform). Source: GameRefinery SaaS Platform.). Vikingard x Vikings TV series collaboration.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, the report contends that players are finding ways to fight back against the abuse they encounter. Addressing toxicity requires a collaborative approach that involves tech companies, studios, publishers, platforms, players, and other stakeholders. Half of the players surveyed say they regularly encounter toxicity in games.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game follows the template of many open-world RPGs, with players invited to freely explore, climb, glide, and fight their way through the vast region of Teyvat as they take on various quests and activities. Take influence from viral trends on media platforms, such as TikTok, but remember that these trends won’t stay around forever.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2025

Game consoles are primarily platforms on which to deliver content to players, alongside PC, mobile, VR, and other various devices. Adding or fragmenting more exclusive content among more platforms isn't necessarily a good thing. They're all essentially fighting over distribution of the same pool of overall content.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

Source: GameRefinery SaaS platform). Source: GameRefinery SaaS platform). Source: GameRefinery SaaS platform). The rough core loop is as follows: Troops collect resources and fight others on the core game map. The Ants’ grossing rank graph has remained steady (data from Jan 21 to Apr 21, 2022. Gameplay loop.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Based on the number of users installing a game, the platform will trigger a fee depending on specific revenue and installation thresholds.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Elden Ring features big tree levels where you have to platform on narrow branches that snake around. To unlock each root gate to the next section, the player must fight their way into a little fort and press a big obvious flashing red button. It wasn't really fun to fight on the actual tree branches.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As a child, he was delighted by action-packed animations like Kung Fu Panda and was drawn to stick-figure animations, particularly for their captivating fighting scenes. He admits, “If you check my Instagram, most of my animations are fight scenes.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Our opinion on why is in line with Ilkka’s words above The lack of successful new game launches by Supercell stems mainly from the fact that all their games after Brawl Stars only offered incremental innovation over products that already existed in mobile , instead of a more disruptive proposal on the platform.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Inspired by TikTok and other social media platforms, the Doge trend has also been used in a few other idle RPGs, such as Valor Legends, as well as in another popular Save The Doge hypercasual game. X-Hero has been utilizing this minigame in its ad creatives and app store icon/screenshots, but it’s not the only game doing this.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

I also tried to tackle another design weakness of mine -- I rely a lot on fights with shotguns. With a well-timed low gravity jump, the player can now escape the arena and fight through the scientists' lab to escape in a way that evokes Portal. The water is now boring and blue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console. New Entrants are Struggling to Break-In While elder games have been fighting over a stagnant TAM of players, new entrants have struggled to gain traction into the market.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Why did they always have to be about fighting?” But we found a way by using Discord, a platform where we could work at our own pace. One of those games was Street Fighter. Kamo remembers, “It was the biggest game back then. But I often wondered why there weren’t more peaceful games. That’s one of the hurdles we face.”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“My Co-founder Jakob Schmid and myself created the rhythm based puzzle platformer 140 together back in the day, and we are both interested in integrating music systems with the game design.” The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

Every day, new games are released across all platforms, each focusing on a distinct genre. 9 Most Popular Video Game Genres Dominating the Gaming Market Adventure Games Adventure games feature minimal fighting and rely rather on narrative. Well-known examples of sports games include NBA 2k11, Tony Hawks and Madden NFL.

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Cocos

MAY 10, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.… …

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Martial arts one-on-one fighting games have been a staple for consoles and arcades dating back to the 1980s. Another reason to get Arcade Edition is to avoid the slog of unlocking characters in V by means of accumulating Fight Money. Get Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition (PS4) 2. Get Tekken 7 (PS5) 3.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. In this 2v2v2v2 event, fights are broken down into several 2v2 rounds in small arenas, with each team having a limited number of lives. Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Chess revenue and downloads in the US (Source: GameRefinery Platform) Perhaps the most significant development in Chess is its recent crossover with Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. It includes a small selection of free beginner lessons, but full access costs $6.49/$6.99 on Android/iOS or $46.99/$48.99 for a monthly subscription.

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Sirlin

MAY 4, 2015

Yomi is a fighting game in card form and it's the competitive card game you should be playing. Just like in a fighting game, you have to learn your character's strengths and weaknesses, read your opponents' tendencies, and land combos when you can. Yomi on Steam Yomi is packed with features. Runs natively on Mac, PC, and Linux (new!)

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.… …

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time! Prepare to learn and give yourself time.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Instead of 15-minute, 100-player games, consider a head-to-head fighting title with three-minute game sessions, such as Mortal Kombat 1 , which uses Amazon GameLift. We choose 100 million CCU as our goal metric to highlight how Amazon GameLift can easily handle even the biggest games, several times over.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Cocos

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is a fighting-platformer game. I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

Whether you're interested in designing platformers, first-person shooters , or role-playing games, these game design fundamentals are applicable to any genre. So, if you're designing a platformer, an open-world game, or a first-person shooter, effective level design is key to keeping your players engaged and invested in the game.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. Battle pass feature popularity trend in US iOS mobile games 2018-2023 (source: GameRefinery Platform).

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Several fighting games also sport a jukebox feature like Tekken and Guilty Gear, but it also exists in games like Payday 2 and Sonic Frontiers. GTA straddles this line in their games - the jukebox is limited to gameplay only and does not break immersion during the story scenes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From there, you can feed your creative into various AI-powered marketing platforms like Google App campaigns , and the algorithms will determine who sees that ad. Informed of this insight, Nexter’s creative marketing team made hugely successful ads that appeal more to the thinking side of Hero Wars, not the fighting side.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 5, 2023

If you want to focus on improving your level design then building a platformer is going to be much more conducive to your goal than building a fighting game. If you want to focus on system design, building an RPG will offer a lot more opportunities to improve than building a visual novel.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “What started as a thesis project at the University of Southern California became a game development journey encompassing VR hardware and software development, to gaming for VR consumer platforms, and even dabbling in location-based VR experiences before COVID hit,” shared Silkin.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

For example, I think fighting games that aren't Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat have little chance of AAA success nowadays. I think that shoot-em-ups, brawlers, and platformers fell down there a long time ago. Uncharted) have also become unsustainable outside of special circumstances like being platform exclusives.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

They delved into the impacts of accessible game development tools, the rise of in-game development platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, and how these changes influence the industry at large. However, he also warns of the centralization of power that might stifle innovation in the face of platforms like Roblox becoming increasingly dominant.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Meta has teamed up with various entertainment providers to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming, NBA games, and professional ring fighting tournaments to Quest. These can be self-created works, as well as images taken from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

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