Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Instead, I want to explore the role of a gaming CMO in setting teams up for success and the risk that some leaders may actually be incentivising a race to the bottom. A combination of Creative Prototyping with a robust Creative Success Framework could unlock opportunities to do just that Do your teams have the right objectives?

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2024

A functioning player-to-player commerce system (auction house) Functioning player-to-player direct trading A functioning gear system For a vertical slice to be a vertical slice, we don't need all of the different classes or races or gear or systems, but we need at least one of everything working together so that the play experience of the vertical (..)

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Tom Francis

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s two massive lucky things I’m grateful for, but I’m used to having literally a year to f**k around with ugly prototypes of random s**t I make up before having to decide which one is my real project. Feeling ‘locked-in’ so early makes me anxious, and having side-projects relieves some of that.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. Their strategy, grounded in game development, could position them as leaders in the race to create a fully-realized metaverse. However, it’s not all bad news for Meta.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. Unity also enables quick prototyping. In this article, you can take a quick look at some of the highly-rated and compelling games created with Unity. The game engine is open-source.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hence, themed victory conditions were out for Old World , but we needed something in place, especially since we were playing MP within a few months of early prototyping. At competitive difficulty levels, VPs serve as a dynamic game timer that the player is racing against to fulfill their ten ambitions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It launched to little fanfare in Korea but it became the de facto FPS standard in China thanks to a massive focus on continuous releases of new (and often left-field) modes (ranging from bike racing to ‘soccer with knives’) and extravagant, overpowered, expensive weapons and outfits catering to local taste.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. King vs. Playrix - The Two-Horse Race Every year, Playrix and ABKing are neck and neck in the race to be a top Puzzle publisher. Otherwise, the CPIs would already be way more than their upper limits which cause the certain death of yet another Hypercasual prototype.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

In my first prototype, I had special “Draft Leaders” cards shuffled into segments of the Adventurer deck. The Race to the Finish. However, there were several possible implementations that would maintain this sense of progression. An early design question became, “what should dictate the pacing of players receiving new Leader tiles?”.

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