Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sometimes entire studios get cut, like how Embracer completely shuttered Volition. For the really massive games (the kind with multiple studios working on them, like Call of Duty) there's the chance that entire studios or subteams (e.g. It's usually a combination of factors. General qualities like cost to keep (i.e.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

The iCandy group also owns mobile studios Appxplore and Joyseed Gametribe as well as art and animation production house Lemon Sky, Html5 publisher Storms (which handles web distribution for games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride) and Hashcode, which specializes in blockchain law and practice.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Appealing UX/UI of A Game. You can take the examples of some of the popular mobile games as a reference and study the UX/UI implementation, from the basic arrangement of elements to the contact form and try to build a unique game of your own. The post The Secret Behind Building a Great Mobile Game appeared first on Hashbyte Studio.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amazing UX/UI. Make the UX/UI understandable for the users. . The post Tips that Will Guide You to Build Successful iPad Game Development appeared first on Hashbyte Studio. If the iPad games have a compelling, user-friendly, and intuitive interface it will attract more players to play the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Product UX and Aesthetics. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Big Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Tip #4: Focus on User Experience and Interface Design Crafting an exceptional user experience(UX) and interface design is paramount to the best graphic games. An exceptional UX and interface design create the foundation for a genuinely delightful gaming experience. These elements are the linchpin of a game’s success. Happy Gaming!

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Guildford.Games Festival 10th | Guildford, UK A non-profit event put together by local members of the industry, Guildford.Games showcases the latest games from studios in the area as well as job opportunities. Mentoring and recruitment sessions cover designers, illustrators, UI/UX designers, riggers and technical roles and more.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

There is concern about whether Apple’s devices would support Windows for development, considering most gaming studios use Windows PCs. This, Brandon argued, seemed like a move away from the experienced game developers who understand the importance of user experience (UX), a critical element in creating these virtual worlds.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It also canned Battlefield Mobile and closed its developer Industrial Toys—a studio it acquired in 2018 but hasn’t released any titles since. The acquisitions of Glu ($2.4b) and Golf Clash studio Playdemic ($1.4b) have clearly not gone according to plan. How else can we interpret this other than as a jab at the partner studio?

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Source: Business of Apps ) Subway Surfers, an endless runner game, was released by Kiloo Games and SYBO studio in May 2012. Temple Run Temple Run was released in 2021 by Imangi Studios. Source: The Verge ) Alto’s Odyssey Alto's Odyssey is the sequel to Alto's Adventure released by Noodlecake Studios Inc. on Jul 25, 2018.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A lot of times the manager is going to be the go-to between higher-ups who are funding it, depending on if you’re in a larger game studio or just the investment from people that paid into it. They have to make sure that the investment of money from wherever that came from and the timeline that was set up is being met properly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

The studio, formerly from Peak ( Toy and Toon Blast ), made bank on blast. But despite the success of those two hit blast games, when working with a studio of their own, they moved to Match-3. Meta Game / UX / UI Here’s where the interesting changes begin. Expanding further back makes it a bit easier to see the tea leaves.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. Wildlife studio also secured $60 million in funding recently based on its broad portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

If Clash Mini achieves a hit status comparable to every other Supercell global launch before, the relevance for the company would be hard to overstate: First, it would mean the validation of their ‘new studios’ strategy (let’s remember that Clash Mini would be the first game ever released by the Supercell Shanghai studio).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Launched in the last quarter of 2019, Tennis Clash from Brazil based Wildlife studios, rose to the top of download charts worldwide, ranking in top 10 most downloaded games in over 100 countries.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

– Most recently, a major content and quality-of-life update introducing new topics, everyone’s favorite new console, a brand new game mode and several important UX improvements went live for free. Screenshot from the upcoming TAG MOD by Bellwood Studios. . – We have released 58 updates to the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Konstantin Mitrofanov , Chief Product Officer of Belka Games (a studio that has quietly racked up half a billion in revenues) shares practical steps on how they were able to create an organization that is both autonomous and highly successful. The reason is that they lack a product mindset and either can’t or won’t make the right decision.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 23, 2020

The role of accessibility in form of art style and UX has arguably broaden the player base of these games and thus expanded the market share for 4X games. Last year, we also predicted that 4X games will continue to see product innovation, improvements in UX and implementation of more accessible art styles. 4X in 2019.

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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The game development pipeline is a lengthy process. In our experience working on everything from AAA titles to smaller-scale projects, a common thread are the stages of game development. Though we’ve seen on some productions that there can be extra layers of complexity to it, the stages of game development remain the same [.].

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And most recently, Travis founded Carbonated Inc, a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Do not fall in love with product, fall in love with building a really successful studio by shipping and learning as quickly as possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

We have taken inspiration from the diff UI currently present in Atom, Visual Studio Code and various other popular text editors and IDEs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Further, recent strategic moves have been made by Voodoo to open “beyond hypercasual” studios. While the diminishing market share and opening of non-hypercasual studios can be seen as Voodoo’s fall from grace, it can also be viewed as Voodoo’s strategic retreat from the hypercasual market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue. And the well-designed resources in Cookie Run: Kingdom , with its clear UI/UX, make the game also very easy and friendly for newbies.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Other noteworthy improvements are the support for MonoDevelop/Visual Studio for Mac as well as Jetbrains Rider as external editors, C# 8.0 our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. x release. support via Mono 6.6, For Godot 3.2,

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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For something purely visual, UI design is absolutely integral in a good gaming experience. Effective UI design in console game development can be the difference between a player enjoying their time with your title and them never picking it up again. That might sound dramatic, but effective UI design is a fast track [.].

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D animators: Maya 3D Studio Max After Effects MotionBuilder Mudbox Premier Cinema 4D LightWave Real-time engine (such as Unreal or Unity) 3D animation jobs in the industry 3D animators can work on live-action projects (VFX), fully animated projects, virtual production, and video games (all platforms).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This strategy is supported by the structure of a 4X studio where the live service team is often separated from the core tech and the publishing team. The treadmill that only the largest studios in the world can sustain. Access all previous predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Making the right choices at project greenlight can be the difference between a successful future vs. a destabilising force to your studios and portfolio health. How do studios of all sizes invest in new products prudently in today’s games market?

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