GDC Europe & Gamescom 2016

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6. SESSIONS Business, Marketing & Management Track Production Track Design Track Programming Track
7. 1. Nuclear Throne: Performative Game Development in Hindsight 2. Gacha Mechanics SESSIONS
8. SESSIONS Nuclear Thrones Performative Game Development in Hindsight
12. + = + Game Development Livestreaming Nuclear Throne: Performative Game Development in Hindsight
13. Reason • Show how game was made • Gain big profit in a unique way that no one has ever done before • Attract talented employee candidate by showing how challenging and fun it is to develop Nuclear Throne • Become a successful pioneer of performative game development and have their names immortalized in college textbooks Nuclear Throne: Performative Game Development in Hindsight
14. Performative Game Development Process Highlight • Nuclear Throne was developed over a period of 2.5 years of active development • Performative development occured primarily on popular livestreaming site twitch.tv on Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 6pm GMT+1 • Updates to the game were released every weekend • After 2.5 years of streaming, 98 updates, and over 250 episodes, it ended Nuclear Throne: Performative Game Development in Hindsight
15. Lessons Learned • Talking while doing something is HARD • Don’t broadcast potato quality • Moderate your chat, keep community healthy • Try to watch your own stream • Consistent schedule • Reward audience time • Don’t be afraid to make a call of action such as ask to subscribe Nuclear Throne: Performative Game Development in Hindsight
16. Closing • Even though their stream quality is not good, surprisingly they have 15,000 followers and 1,200 subscribers at $12.99 • The channel also made $31.06 ads revenue Nuclear Throne: Performative Game Development in Hindsight
17. SESSIONS Gacha Mechanics
18. Gacha Mechanics Gacha is ... Gashapon or gachapon refer to variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys popular in Japan and elsewhere carousell.com japanmentor.jp
19. Characteristics: • Have a assigned rarity • Have an aesthetic appeal outside of practical use emotional impact • Be a central element of the game’s mechanics • Provide further interactive functionality • Leave the game’s challenge intact Gacha Mechanics
20. Why it works? • Some of player like to complete set • Player can share their reaction when they opening gacha youtube pokemongoko.com Gacha Mechanics youtube.com pokemongoko.com
22. Elements of games: • Characters Gacha Mechanics
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24. Gacha on elements of games • Items (equipment; not the consumable one) Gacha Mechanics
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26. Some good example: • Clash Royale is one example of western game that can implement gacha mechanism – It selling a random draw out of a variety of items Chest gacha or reward system, they have currently total ~58 different cards – The cards have assigned rarity common, rare, epic, legendary – Have an aesthetic appeal? Maybe, characters are shown in 2D cards – Cards are the core gameplay – Gacha has limited influence on balancing Gacha Mechanics
27. Implement Gacha, what to consider? • Avoid too repetitive gameplay • Have characters focus for end game • Have a persistent progress layer • Have a right amount of characters • Have social layers Gacha Mechanics
28. Tips: • To make the game balance even with gacha mechanics, you mustn’t change drop rate based on player spending behaviour • Best practice: Set checkpoints when player can get some rarer characters or items Gacha Mechanics
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39. Goji Play • Icaros • Parachute VR Sanlab Simulation Expo (VR)
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41. Goji Play
42. Icaros
43. Parachute VR
44. Sanlab Simulation
45. • The Climb • Robinson: The Journey • Eagle Flight • Blue Effect Expo (VR)
46. theclimbgame.com The Climb
47. thisgengaming.com Robinson: The Journey
48. psnation.com Eagle Flight
49. vrtalk.com Blue Effect
50. • World of Warcraft: Legion • Heartstone: Nefarian Rises • Gwent: The Witcher Card Game • Dreadnought • For Honor • Titanfall 2 Additional Expo
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