Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. This is likely due to the game’s varied upgrading system but also due to the way the daily gameplay focus shifts from one mechanic to another.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I knew that if I could get the simulation capture process figured out in the City Sample Demo, I could make my own environment in the future and use the same workflow. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. Finally, this reward mechanism subtly yet effectively onboards players, teaching them how power-ups work individually and in combination. And don't think you can breeze through those races; they typically ensure you encounter a few challenging levels along the way.

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Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

Consider your interests and what type of game you’d like to play, such as action, adventure, racing, or simulation. Start with an easy game If you’re new to video games, it’s a good idea to start with an easy game to help you get the hang of the controls and mechanics.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The mechanics enable a domino effect of Western support throughout the region. As we’ve covered, the ability of a game to simulate the actual world is extremely limited and, thus, misleading. However, when you read the rules for the game, it comes across like a Bush administration neo-con fantasy world. Why make that game at all?

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Without them, a 4X game suddenly becomes an aimless simulation where the players set their own goals. Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Indeed, I generally view victory conditions as a necessary evil.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

The mechanics for choosing events and how they affect the player are transparent and easy to understand, which was necessary because, as with all board games, the players have to do all the work themselves. Many of the mechanics and systems from Civ that I’ve rejected with Old World are ones that I came up with myself.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

Although in most games, at least usually one or two systems are kind of fully-cooked; in this one… probably the most polished and complete thing about the game is one of the minigames (the business simulator was pretty impressive). He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. That would be bad.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Kerbal Space Program This is a popular simulation game developed by Squad and released in 2015. The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. In this article, you can take a quick look at some of the highly-rated and compelling games created with Unity.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation. Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Both titles featured PUBG’s signature battle royale gameplay and mechanics ported to the mobile format, though the two studios had different approaches. So why the stark difference in performance?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Mario Kart) failing to sustain the initial download numbers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Save for a few unicorns ( Fortnite , AFK Arena ), the genres and game mechanics feel to me largely unevolved.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

While there wasn’t much of a story to this farming simulator, you had to learn to plant crops, grow livestock, and befriend other characters (non-player characters, or NPCs), in the game to move ahead. Even though it was essentially the same version as the original, this one had new characters and mechanics. F-Zero: GP Legend.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.)

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