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Different Content Progression Methods in Mobile RPGs

This is not a scientific or comprehensive study. Instead, this is just quick observational research I performed for my own purposes and…

May 31, 2020

Different Content Progression Methods in Mobile RPGs

May 31, 2020

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The Startup

You Don’t Need to Be Inspired, You Need to Be Bored

“Why don’t you write anymore?”, — my wife asked me. — “What would inspire you to do it again? A trip to Europe? An evening in a nice…

Jan 5, 2020

You Don’t Need to Be Inspired, You Need to Be Bored

Jan 5, 2020

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Game Design 101: Balancing Economy

What’s balance, anyway?

Dec 12, 2019

Game Design 101: Balancing Economy

Dec 12, 2019

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Designing Session Length

I have never finished a single game of Dota Underlords.

Dec 8, 2019

Designing Session Length

Dec 8, 2019

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How to Deconstruct Games Better

I have always tried to watch the competitors. While working on the moderately successful, not-too-notable products, I got used to looking…

Dec 4, 2019

How to Deconstruct Games Better

Dec 4, 2019

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Every Game Is A loot Box

You have just embarrassingly lost third time in a row, and you press “find game” once again. You feel emptiness and hatred towards the…

Nov 26, 2019

Every Game Is A loot Box

Nov 26, 2019

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Game Design 101: UI Mockups

When I told people that I’m a game designer the first thing I used to add was “no, I don’t draw anything”. Now I came to realize that I…

Nov 19, 2019

Game Design 101: UI Mockups

Nov 19, 2019

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Is Your Player Entertained?

Do you still follow the idea of “you need to break the player’s session so he doesn’t play too much an get bored of your game”? It got a…

Nov 9, 2019

Is Your Player Entertained?

Nov 9, 2019

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Why Daily Bonus Won’t Boost Your Retention

There are several “simple tricks to boost your retention” that go from article to article. They usually vary in complexity from “it’s a…

Oct 30, 2019

Why Daily Bonus Won’t Boost Your Retention

Oct 30, 2019

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Steal like a Game Designer

Once upon a time, a game designer copied a solution from another game, and his butt fell off.

Oct 22, 2019

Steal like a Game Designer

Oct 22, 2019

Andrey Panfilov

Andrey Panfilov

Game Producer and ex-Game Designer who’s been to dev hell and back, and then back to dev hell and back again.

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