Questions tagged [casual-games]
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How to give the player the feeling of being chased by enemies and force him/her to rush
I have already asked a question about the difficulty progression in my endless runner game: How to make difficulty progression in my endless-runner game?
Now I have to decided that it is a good ...
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How to make difficulty progression in my endless-runner game?
I want to further develop this game I created for a game jam. Currently spiders chase squirrels with the same speed. Tree branches are randomly generated. Even if you perfectly time your jumps the ...
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AABBs in lwjgl 2.9.3
I think I have succeeded in making an aabb out of 6 quads in opengGL but how would i get it to stay with its centre-point at the centre-point of all objects. I know it is easy for one object how would ...
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What makes a game "casual?"
I've seen the term "casual" used to describe games at times, and have seen people refer themselves or others as "casual gamers."
What exactly is a "casual" game? Is there any real difference between ...
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How can I get pre-release reviews of my mobile game?
My iOS and Android game is at its last stage of development. Is there a way for me to get pre-release reviews from people? Or maybe from the press? How should I proceed?
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Casual gamer age distribution
What is the age histogram of people who play casual mobile games like Cut The Rope, Angry Birds and so on?
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Casual games market share distribution? [closed]
I'm interested in how the market of casual games is split up between different platforms, both in terms of revenue as well as "amount of games published".
For example, I think that Facebook and ...
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Simple, casual open source OpenGL games to implement other things in [closed]
I am looking for a simple casual game (open source) done in openGL. I need it to implement communication component i build this is not for learning opengl and to implement some other stuff into it. ...
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MySql Database design for Facebook game
I'm at the planning stages for a facebook game, it will be similar to farmville, but will feature parks. I've been a Flash game dev for many years but all this database stuff is new to me so I'm ...
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What I need to do to integrate in game micro payments for virtual goods in desktop games?
Does anyone here have experience in implementing in game payments , does such thing is possible ?
Where should I look in to?
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Are there any web frameworks used primarily to produce games? [closed]
Basically, the title says it all. I've seen and worked with Django, Rails and a bit with Cake PHP. I'd like to know if there is a framework that is excellent for supporting casual, 2d, browser based ...
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Really simple video games, how to design games for the non-gamer market?
With the boom of mobile and social games reaching more and more people and new technologies like the wii, kinect and geolocation hardware and gadgets appealing to a bigger market than the hardcore ...