Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Except that’s not really all, is it?

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the basics of WebGL game development, including its advantages, the tools needed to get started, and some tips for creating engaging and successful games. With its vast potential, game designers can create engrossing and immersive experiences that can be enjoyed by audiences around the world.

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Raph Koster

JULY 18, 2024

This week, it’s all about the second set: The Ease of Nintendo Meets the Depth of the Sandbox MMO The game will be deep: a set of proven game mechanics brought together in one universe. (If you missed last week’s, it’s here , and I expanded on it on the blog here.) Oh well!

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It mainly focuses on testing for video and audio issues, mechanical breakdowns, and incomplete interface design, to mention a few. Test all game functionalities, mechanics, and features to ensure they run as expected. Test all game functionalities, mechanics, and features to ensure they run as expected.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Of course, there are numerous reasons why retro games are popular again. If it’s been a while since you visited your local arcade or bought an Atari game console for your home, then chances are you have forgotten just how simple video games used to be. Designing a retro game. Retrogaming And Nostalgia.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many games sell their in-app-purchases for $TON directly, perhaps avoiding platform fees and making it easier for players to immediately spend back rewards that may have been won. The game will usually express the price in the in-app store in local currency (USD, Euros, etc.),

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface. What is Gold Master (GM) testing?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

PlayStation game testers provide detailed feedback on the gameplay, controls, game balance, and user interface, helping improve the final product. Therefore, you must familiarize yourself with the game design documents and understand the intended gameplay mechanics. This applies to games as well.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 20, 2011

These are wildly different goals from most TCGs that you would find in your local store. Whenever I'm trying to make something that people can pick up extremely quickly, I find it makes a lot of sense to start from a game that everyone is familiar with and innovate from there.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Making internal opinions matter requires a pair of mechanics – how the opinion is determined and how it affects the game. Designing the latter was the easier task as family opinions could simply affect cities and units if they each had a specific family type. Another important vector for family opinion would be religion.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture. …alert level xD. That’s a problem.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Petrovic rounded out the panel by adding that Turkish companies must start to look outside local talent and look more globally, using Gram Games’ international offices as a good example. Fun generates retention, he said, stating that game designers should think of their games as becoming a daily player habit.

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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. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics?

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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. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

That’s just the core mechanic, and about the smallest vision you can have (which is actually what I recommend when starting to build a roguelike ), though even then my vision included an immersive interface and using sensor data to help navigate a living world occupied by both hostile and non-hostile robots. Difficulty.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We checked out a new local game store where we discovered Dominion. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Other than that, I’m pretty flexible on most other aspects of game design.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam ) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley / Animal Crossing inspired farm life sim about scraping by, in a decaying rural truckstop town with bored depressed locals you gradually befriend (or ignore). But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t go heavy on realism, in which case backtracking for this reason can be considered a non-issue and solely a decision to be made within the greater mechanical design, though this does mean progress ends up feeling gamier overall. Design Control. Do enemies follow through stairs?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. Limited regen (e.g.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It must have been a difficult game to design for many reasons, one of which is that many of the US’s historical actions, such as the invasion of Iraq, backfired horribly, which players would presumably want to avoid. However, when you read the rules for the game, it comes across like a Bush administration neo-con fantasy world.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

You can play single-character matches or team battles, just like in local play. Playing against friends in other fighting games can feel painfully outdated by comparison. The very specific way it works is actually innovative and is a general contribution to game design that many other games could use.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia. And anyway, to me, kindness coin design is a less grievous sin than a game that pretends to have any meaningful sex systems at all.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

I founded Tricorn Games with the aim to craft, publish, and distribute those ideas I had been tinkering with forever. But I my case the print run was small enough that I could use a boutique manufacturer locally, since there are basically none that do large scale stuff onshore. Hardly know a thing about making games.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

"Cruising Labyrinth," Andreas Angelidakis Lindell was responding to a specific social context: the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic that utterly devastated the gay male community in New York City, especially the local sex clubs and bathhouses. This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes.

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