Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Before you ask people to play-test your game, bear in mind the following advice. Two groups that come to mind are the Tabletop Game Playtesters Guild and Card & Board Game Designers Guild.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Unity, a widely adopted game engine, plays a pivotal role in empowering aspiring game developers in making great gaming experiences, thanks to its user-friendly interface and strong community support. But where does one start with game development on Unity? Because help is just a click away.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week with Highways & Byways , I’ve been making little improvements to the game to make it more usable and easy-to-understand. Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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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. So buckle up and let’s dive into the exciting world of WebGL game development!

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 28, 2024

Games for Change , in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge at the 2024 Games for Change Festival. The challenge is an initiative to improve representation and increase visibility for underrepresented game developers in the mobile gaming industry.

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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? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.”

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Second, what goes into making tabletop games? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Back in the heat of the summer of 2017, I wrote two articles about this A Crash Course in Games and A Crash Course in Game Development.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Experiment with a theme or mechanics you’ve never used.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A lot of board game developers don’t treat their projects like businesses, though, and that’s a dangerous thing to do. If you make a game, you’re making intellectual property.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In this case an approach to local authentication or authorization support needs to be implemented. Caching of credentials : Care needs to be taken with locally cached credentials to ensure they can not be accessed maliciously without authorization. Offline authentication : Mobile devices may not always have internet connectivity.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you look on /r/boardgames or Board Game Geek, you can find no shortage of “shelfies” where people have hundreds of board games. You might even get the impression that board gamers are not price-sensitive at all… Need help on your board game? That can tell you a lot about how board gamers value games.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some of this goes back to the process of creating your game, getting it manufactured, and raising funds. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Your Niche.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The infrastructure also includes mechanisms for error handling and reprocessing. If any game end events are missed, the system can be manually triggered to reprocess those events and update the GPR accordingly, using the event history stored in the power-hub-db database.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Additionally, the block size for comparing data was set to a high value of 64KB on the client-side to minimize metadata, leading to redownloading of data that could have been copied from the local version. Optimizing the caching mechanism using Amazon EFS improved the overall performance and scalability of EA’s game patching process.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And what are some top console game testing practices to “wow” your players and create a polished gaming experience? Why is Console Game Testing Important? Like software testing, console game testing plays a crucial role in the game development process. Let’s find out.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Creating a great scoring system in a board game can be a difficult process. Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Scoring rules are among the most important, particularly in euro games. Need help on your board game? So how do you do it?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A tale of two halves: H1 and H2 of 2022 During the last quarter of 2021, almost every successful blockchain game had one thing in common: They were developed by crypto native teams who were well versed in the blockchain technology, but lacked experience in game development.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co. Click here.

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iXie gaming

MAY 3, 2024

Preparing for Testing Before you start testing your Nintendo Switch game, it’s crucial to set up the required infrastructure. This includes acquiring the hardware, such as the Nintendo Switch console, controllers, and other peripherals needed for specific games. This makes it difficult and costly to identify and fix issues in the game.

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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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AWS Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

To provide a low latency multiplayer experience for your players, you want to host the game sessions physically as close as possible to your players. Amazon GameLift supports 24 Regions and nine Local Zones—continually adding more support across the world.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

Game developers look for ways to improve online multiplayer experience while balancing availability and cost effectiveness. Containers and Kubernetes help modernize game server hosting running on virtual or bare metal machines to improve compute allocation density, optimize data-transfer cost and maintain high performance.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Practically speaking, a mechanism for managing Unity licenses may be necessary. For this reason, a retry mechanism is essential. When using Spot Instances for building, there is a potential issue where unnecessary time is spent building assets because the local cache is erased. Please examine the actual implementation as well.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nintendo, a household name in the gaming world, has a long-standing tradition of delivering high-quality, immersive gaming experiences to its fans. Thorough testing is a crucial part of the game development process to achieve this level of excellence. But what does Nintendo game testing entail?

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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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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Our careful, multi-stage approach ensures that every game we test is polished and seamless, providing a great experience for players. This guide will explain iXie’s proven testing methods, sharing the strategies that make us a trusted partner for game developers. Now, in the beta stage, real players get to try the game.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Caching is essential in the development of large, immersive games to ensure efficient asset retrieval and performance optimization. For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. It accommodates both network I/O and disk I/O operations with the help of I/O credit mechanism.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

They’re also able to capture and analyze game play metrics to inform feature development. Drader explained, “Batting is the key mechanic in ‘SMB,’ and we are conducting extensive analysis on pitch locations and outcomes, then tweaking the gameplay as needed.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

Outdated concepts, adherence to rigid genre frameworks and the excessive use of microtransactions are the reasons that AAA games not excite us as much as they used to. The phenomenon of indie games is the fact that these games often offer something that cannot be found in popular titles. Disadvantages of indie games.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

.” I spoke to Venba’s designer, Abhi, about the game’s first few weeks in the world, and the reasons for its success. He adds that he’s especially pleased that the game is going down well in countries across Asia, as well as in the West. Those actions make a lot more sense to turn into action games. .”

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The three predictions for the AI x Game Industry in 2025: Games made by AI will fail to impress both the player and the publishers. The first iteration of AI tools for game development will not have the impact investors were dreaming of. AI frees up developers to focus on more creative aspects.

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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

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. He added that a lot of the funding that has gone into PVE or play-to-earn games was flawed.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures! link] Concept Art.

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