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Building Echo: How Apple TV Forced Us to Rethink Mobile UX
Adam Fingerman Chief Experience Officer of mobile app design and development company details his experience developing one of the first games for the Apple TV: Echo, from ArcTouch – a free retro-style game that tests your memory, and your reflexes.
April 27, 2016
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From Browser to Mobile Game Development – An InnoGames Retrospective
In the following, I will give some insights into what we tried at InnoGames, and how we have made very promising steps towards a highly engaged mobile player base.
April 27, 2016
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Using New Buyer Packs to Enhance Player Experience and Increase Conversion
Games are hobbies, and all hobbies are more fun and engaging with a beginner pack. In games, these "starter" packs have lasting value and can guide players in the right direction.
April 27, 2016
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Are Behavior Trees a Thing of the Past?
Introducing the Next Generation of AI: How Utility AIs Are Replacing Behaviour Trees.
April 27, 2016
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A Filthy Casual Talks Clash Royale
Randy thinks a bit about his love and frustration for Clash Royale.
April 27, 2016
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Making of the Paperverse, the art-style of Book of Demons
About a month ago we revealed Book of Demons, our deck-building hack and slash. Since then people have been asking about the paper art-style we adopted, so we decided to put up an article about it. Hope you will enjoy the story how it all came to life.
April 27, 2016
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Games as revolutionary acts: Historians discuss 1979 Revolution
History Respawned's Bob Whitaker talks with historian Zackery Heern about 1979 Revolution Black Friday. Topics include revolutionary ideologies, religion, and America's place in the Iranian Revolution.
April 27, 2016
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Building Emotional Connections With Game Design
In this article, game designer Sande Chen follows up on the ways games can provide a truly emotional experience.
April 26, 2016
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Avoiding the Hoarder Trap in Game Design
Hoarding in game design shows a problem with the game's design and mechanics, and today's post looks at some alternative options for game designers.
April 26, 2016
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The first 4 days of Greenlight - What to expect
This not a post about “what you should do to get Greenlit in 5 days”. This is a simple report with a few thoughts from a small, relatively unknown team, on their Greenlight campaign.This is repost from our blog
April 25, 2016
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How we made a visually complex PC game run smoothly on mobile using Unreal Engine 4
"Epic of Kings" is a high quality mobile game developed by a small development team.The goal of this post is to share some of the techniques used to achieve smooth performance on mobile devices using Unreal Engine 4 built-in tools.
April 25, 2016
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UX Review: 'Piggy Bank (Endowment) Effect! unique monetisation hooks of Slotomania
Deep dive in to hooks and baits of social casino games, utilisation of psychological principles for unique monetisation and conversion opportunities.
April 25, 2016