Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 9, 2025

lavish vacations, theme parks, theater going) to cheaper forms of entertainment (camping, hiking, video games, local attractions, etc.). They have low cost to buy in, but they also have lots of content and plenty of retention mechanics for those who stay to play. There is also often trading from expensive entertainment (e.g.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

We continue our series of articles about the different roles in the video game localization industry. Federica Lusardi , Senior Translator/Editor – Italian at Square Enix in London, walks us through her experience in one of the localization industry’s most critical subjects, translation.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 8, 2017

A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of playing 5-Minute Dungeon at the friendly local gaming store for the first time. There are other great mechanics you can use. Engagement Driver 3: Good Housekeeping through Mechanics. This game got us rowdier than ever before and it was awesome! Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

You may also be able to find a game design or play-testing group local to where you live as well. Visit your local game store. Speaking of local play-testing, once game stores reopen after the conclusion of the COVID-19 pandemic, you may very well find that your local game stores are a great place to play-test board games.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 10, 2017

It was therefore my great pleasure and fortune to be able to play out my Sergio Leone film fantasies at the game table of my friendly local gaming store. For the purpose of this breakdown’s coherence, I won’t go into details of the shooting and marshal mechanics, nor will I cover the end-game shooting bonus.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 13, 2019

Everything can be scrapped at a moment’s notice – mechanics, rules, art, and even basic core concepts. You come up with basic ideas, find physical pieces to represent those ideas, and come up with game mechanics. Then you regulate the expression of those mechanics through rules. Need help on your board 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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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 28, 2024

Challenge Winner – Button City Developed by: Subliminal Gaming (United States) Button City is a cozy narrative adventure game about a fox and his friends banding together to save their local arcade. Through innovative mechanics, they provide a unique perspective on dementia. Download the game here.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Playing games exposes you to mechanics and design trends. That means you’ll want to play games that are new and old, for large groups and small groups, and ones that have all sorts of different mechanics. Method #2: Go to a local board gaming store. Playing a lot of board games is necessary to creating great board games.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Of course, the flip side of this is that having your game examined by serial play-testers, game designers, and the occasional publisher makes for a far better test than 10 or 15 with your family, online through Tabletop Simulator, or even at your local game store. They look for mechanics and general play-ability.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2025

The biggest pitfall is isolation, but that can be mitigated by being involved in a local game-dev community. I also used the local Game-Dev community to learn things I wouldnt learn otherwise. I wrote the prototype in a weekend and knew it was a Good Enough mechanic to explore. Thats what I did.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The infrastructure also includes mechanisms for error handling and reprocessing. AWS architecture utilizing AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS and Amazon partner solutions, such as Databricks. GPR was born from fan feedback and makes the game more accessible and exciting.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says. Opportunity on Upwork Before joining Chroma Pixel Games, Simpson did freelance work, designing album covers and promos for local restaurants.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2020

Along with your box, the theme and mechanics of your game, and the reviews you receive, board gamers will make a decision to buy or not to buy. I even recommend you go to a local gaming store to look at the boxes, still shrink wrapped, and compare them to their prices. It is shorthand for the above questions.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This mainly involves testing for incomplete interface design, audio and video issues, and mechanical shortcomings, among other problems that may lead to missed colors, freezing, and inconsistent animation, among other bugs or errors. This may include testing gameplay mechanics, character interactions, and AI behavior, to mention a few.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of C# programming to effectively manipulate game objects, create gameplay mechanics, and handle events. Utilize features like raycasting, joints, constraints, and physics materials to achieve realistic and engaging gameplay mechanics. Learn C# Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Some people dislike “take that” mechanics because they’re too mean-spirited, such as the well-regarded reviewer, Rahdo. It’s no use selling a game with “take that” mechanics to him, then, is it? Your Niche.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The following year, the Norsfell team submitted their concept to the Montreal Ubisoft Indie Series annual competition for local independent game studios—and won. Tracing origins Envisioned as a colorful Viking experience that mixed action roleplaying game (RPG) and survival elements, the idea behind “Tribes of Midgard” was sparked in 2016.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Mainstream board games are the ones you find in stores like Walmart and hobby board games flourish online and in local gaming stores. Then they play-test with friends, family, local gaming groups, online play-testers, etc. What’s the real differences between mainstream board games and hobby board games, then? Game Production.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Because the game is a simulator and because they have pretty complicated mechanics, you may encounter issues with Farming Simulator 17 keeps crashing on your PC. Go to the Local Files and press Verify integrity of game files. Select the Compatibility tab and click the Run this program as an administrator box. Relaunch the game.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

you’re likely to be taxed at a federal, state, and local level on your business. You can’t protect mechanics, but you can definitely protect your brand name, lore, art, and other assets. If you keep clean books on a day to day basis, tax time won’t be so bad. You need to know who’s taxing you. In the U.S.,

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. In my first Designer Diary post for Tasty Humans , I talked about the mechanics of dropping shapes (which represent the titular “Tasty Humans”) in order to fill up the stomach of the each player’s monster.

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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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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can usually find them at Protospiel conventions or even local game stores or Meetup groups. Experiment with a theme or mechanics you’ve never used. If you’re the kind of creator who has a few prototype board games in your closet somewhere, consider playing one of them with a few game designers.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Diccon took care of programming, visual scripting, Interface and controls.” “So we decided it might be fun to incorporate a delivery mechanic that tasks the player to fly from island to island with product in stow.” ” “For just two developers I think we took on too much work”, shares Hartley.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Show them their local surroundings, before dumping them into the action. One of the core mechanics of a VR game is being able to interact with the world around you. It’s such a fundamental mechanic that it feels strange if your game doesn’t include it. “So we needed to let the player see the play space before anything happens.

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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.) Really should have talked about this more in the article.

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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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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. I also run a game night at the local cupcake store and get emails from the people that attend that. Except that’s not really all, is it?

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Game Errors

MARCH 13, 2023

The gameplay mechanisms have attracted a lot of gamers. Now, you can follow these effective methods to solve the error code 19004 with Star Citizen: Disable Proxy and VPN Whitelist Star Citizen in Firewall Change DNS Reset the RSI Launcher Run internet troubleshooter Delete Star Citizen’s local profile data 1.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. The Derived Data Cache in Unreal Engine serves as a storage mechanism for data that is computationally expensive to generate. It accommodates both network I/O and disk I/O operations with the help of I/O credit mechanism.

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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. iXie has got you covered.

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Game Errors

MAY 22, 2023

In addition, this game has an excellent surreal environment, an adventurous gameplay mechanism, and many puzzles to solve. Right-click on After Us , hover the cursor on Manage , and then click on Browse local files. Go to the Local Files tab. You should get a fantastic vibe while playing this title. Go to the Compatibility tab.

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Game Errors

MAY 17, 2023

Like some other popular games, it has excellent gameplay mechanisms. After doing the above things, fix Valorant not launching issue by following these methods: Update drivers Change your PC resolution End related processes and relaunch Delete local data Repair Valorant Run in clean boot 1. This article will tell you how to do it.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amazon GameLift supports 24 Regions and nine Local Zones—continually adding more support across the world. You can build another secure mechanism that your servers can use to gain access to AWS access keys. This allows you to centrally manage a global game server fleet from a single home region.

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iXie gaming

MAY 3, 2024

This form of testing evaluates the basic functions, including gameplay mechanics, menus, controls, and user interfaces. Localization Testing If you intend to release your Nintendo Switch game in multiple regions, localization testing is crucial. Testers ensure that all features work as intended. The outcome?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

Publishers have all sorts of vetting mechanisms in place that keep you from going to market with a bad game. They may, however, be able to make the best educational game about Utah’s state history for local schools. Micro-markets like this are growing. Traditional Publishing: Long-Term Trends.

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