Sentences with phrase «when games make»

When these cosmetic systems are monetized it is every bit as manipulative and exploitative as when games make you pay for weapons because it all feeds into that same vying for social power that happens in any setting you put people into And though I want to end with a call to action, I am also caught up within these models.

The ultimate goal of the programme is to select and develop a women's Sevens team to contest for a gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games in 2016, when the game makes its Olympic debut for both men and women.

When game making is as easy as uploading something to YouTube, in terms of the actual technology underlying it, then you're going to see huge things.

The effect was even greater when the games made it to consoles.

«When your game makes you want to skip the egregiously tedious gameplay so you can see what happens in the utterly forgettable story, you know you're doing something wrong», said Cheat Code Central.

Other difficulties arise when the game makes baffling design choices, like forcing you to do regular racing in a drag car.

When this game made me avoid the title screen as I was selecting games on the main menu, I knew the developers did exactly what they set out to do.

Having missed out on The Unfinished Swan when the game made its debut on the PlayStation 3 in 2012, when Giant Sparrow announced that their paint - flinging, first - person adventure game was coming to PlayStation Vita it left me with no excuses not to give it a go.

But when the game made its playable debut at PAX East in Boston earlier this month, people started to take notice.

Not exact matches

«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

Although Riot funds the championship prize pools and pays $ 12,500 stipends for pro players and coaches for each season split, teams have become increasingly vocal about sharing the revenue Riot makes when it sells world championship sponsorships, strikes distribution deals to stream games and tournaments online, and sells team - branded in - game goods.

When you play a game, you have an interactive role which requires immersion, decision making and thinking.

While all of those things still exist, they are no longer the only game in town when it comes to distribution, and therefore they are no longer the only game in town when it comes to making money from control of that distribution.

When I graduated I took a year off to try to make a game that I could sell and break in [with], but that [Gate 88] didn't do very well at all.

That's when I started making video games.

When storks pivot and leave the baby - delivering game to now focus on packages, one stork (voiced by Andy Samberg) has to make things right when a baby suddenly needs to be delivered to its pareWhen storks pivot and leave the baby - delivering game to now focus on packages, one stork (voiced by Andy Samberg) has to make things right when a baby suddenly needs to be delivered to its parewhen a baby suddenly needs to be delivered to its parents.

We need to make sure we have a compelling feature set that we can execute at a high quality, so when we start talking about the next iteration of the game it looks, feels and plays different enough that people feel like they have to get the next version.

«Our team had plenty of unforeseen challenges when it came to reducing load times in the game and making it a snappy experience,» de Masi says.

When you were making the very first Mortal Kombat game in 1992, what was your thinking behind it?

One thing to know: As it stands, it looks as if the Bills will miss the postseason by one game, and there's a chance that the spot that would have been theirs will go to the Chargers, making head coach Sean McDermott's decision to sit Tyrod Taylor for Nathan Peterman when the teams met midseason all the more painful for the snake - bitten franchise.

«When you're in a Super Bowl game and your team is three touchdowns down and the clock is running, mental toughness is what makes the difference at the end.»

But those were the rules of the game before the shareholders bought their stock, which makes it hard to sympathize with their claim that they are being taken advantage of when they volunteered for it.

They also say they have their own skin in the game when it comes to making loans.

Not only does it mean a better user experience — it can make the difference between life and death when it comes to trading on NASDAQ, or even a high stakes game of League of Legends.

Along with buzzing when new emails arrive, tracking distances, monitoring heart rate, the device lets users take photos (if they don't mind twisting their wrist just - so to line up the lens), play music, make calls via speaker phone, and play games.

Worse, when I actually did have time to indulge in something entertaining — reading a book, watching a movie or attending a college football game — it was almost impossible for me to fully enjoy the experience due to the gnawing guilt that I was not at trade show or making a sales call or reconciling the financials.

However, in the storage wars, even the mighty Microsoft couldn't play the low - margin game, having to make serious cutbacks (and eventually try and fix the situation) when they reduced the «Free» tier of their consumer storage service OneDrive.

By sending you discs when you want them, and taking them back when you're done, the subscription service is ideal for gamers who want to make the most of their systems.

The firing came after months of harassment of Rapp by a group critical of changes Nintendo made when localizing several Japanese games.

But when it comes to actually using the fabled technique to nudge older kids towards success, many psychologists warn children are likely to see right through your mind games and feel manipulated, making the situation worse.

It even made a major plunge into sports last year when it began to stream MLB and NHL games, along with a $ 10 million deal to stream 10 NFL Thursday night games.

While the postponements are a necessity given the hand many teams have been dealt with bad weather, it will leave some teams in a tight spot when they are forced to make the games up later in the season.

Often when trying to make a video a huge success, companies forget the end game is the customer, not the award.

In business, when you're going into very serious transactions with someone, financial transactions, it's important not to play a game or hide behind behind some made up identity.

That makes it easier to overlook the games — and sports franchises in general — when coming up with year - end lists.

The company made history last year when its self - learning AlphaGo agent beat a world champion at the notoriously difficult Chinese board game Go.

Littman, the founder of educational computer game designer Morphonix, says she works with a bunch of guys most comfortable solving digital problems, so when she wants to get something new out of them, she finds some way to make them act like the children for whom they design the games.

You may want to instead consider giving users, when designing your app, the chance to earn them and multiply what they earn throughout the game (experience or currency for example), making them stay in the game and pay to enhance their experience.

When games such as Sword and Sworcery — or those from the other companies profiled in this series, such as Chat Fu, Guacamelee, Spellirium or Mark of the Ninja — are made here and kept here, the intellectual property behind them also remains.

Most quickly pointed out that Apple has provided developers with a tool it calls «On - Demand Resources» making it possible for apps to download content, such as new levels in games, only when needed.

As the Journal notes, when asked in a Reddit AMA a few years back about his long term plans for Mojang, Persson responded: «Stay indie, make fun games that we like playing.»

While he makes a point of attending his son's hockey and baseball games, he takes conference calls on the field when necessary.

Meanwhile, Williams» own words today clearly mirror Winfrey's early advice when the former NFL star talks about walking away from the game that made him famous.

At this stage in the game, it's hard to make meaningful product improvements and maybe even more importantly, drivers don't trust them even when they do.

Maybe it's as simple as constantly wanting to recapture the feeling you had when you made the winning goal in an important soccer game.

Another subtle tweak is that you can turn on the «My Game Play Demo» option, so that when the system is idle, it will show an «attract mode» made up of clips from your past gameplay sessions.

When executed well, it can make even mundane activities seem like a game, creating motivation and desire for users to keep «playing.»

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But games don't always have to be a distraction from our everyday lives — they can actually make us more productive when used properly.

Burnie Burns, cofounder of Austin - based Rooster Teeth, a production company with 300 - plus staffers that produced the made - for - YouTube sci - fi comedy Lazer Team and its upcoming sequel, still remembers being dumbstruck almost a decade ago, when Rooster Teeth consisted of little more than a handful of friends, by what the service offered: «They completely changed the game in terms of the ability to monetize video with pre-roll advertising.