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beating the line it's finishing off games giving underdogs a stone a glimmer of hope and if you fancy watching that much well kickoff is in around hoffa now it's time in washington have a nice life from ballet not having a home free coming up next it's shift the tech programs off a very sick. city in ruins are a. symbol of a long conflict in the philippines. between the muslim and the christian population last. strangers occupied the city center in 2017 president to church's response was brutal. i. will never again book called. the. conquest turned into tragedy this is not
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the kind of freedom that we want. how did we become a gateway to islamize turd. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. phyllis in the sights of our u.s. starts october 24th on g.w. . when i was a teenager kids my age wanted to become pop stars all go to hollywood but today many creative team stream of making it in the world of gaming some game designers have enjoyed huge overnight success and their products i enjoyed by millions of people around the world but what is it that makes games so fascinating and what makes a game a real hit today on ship. in 2018 the global gaming industry generated say is
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a 40000000000 euros and you record and talk among go which is one of the best known smartphone games around has made the developers 1800000000 euro so far games have become a global cultural phenomenon more than 200000000 people take fortnight even i have tried out some of the games called victory dances even though survival games really my thing actually my 13 year old nephew said my dancing was absolutely embarrassing but maybe that's exactly what makes games so popular today the ability to make such a big impact on mainstream culture. you might be familiar with these dance moves they're part of the global fortnight community. the survival games battle royale mode is hugely popular and so are the players unique outfits and dances. some of them were
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inspired by movies music videos and even ordinary people or unsure kid one of you tube's ingenious dance inventors even the game developer for plagiarizing his loops . fortnight has made dancing one of its trademarks and the internet is now full of tutorials on how to bust a move. like your favorite character. in february. and also set a new record on the twitch streaming video platform last year 628000 people watched a fortnight stream by program. part of the reason for this success is called gamers
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n.f.l. star. robert driver scott and pop star drake games have the power to unite people from all areas of society. much more than that. game in 1960. resistible. game design also helped make people. part of our entertainment culture. just a matter of time before the 1st fortnight. and fortnight movies hit the big screen already made trailers. but lesser known games can be lucrative to.
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start at a small gaming company called fluffy fairy games with some friends the company grew and they later renamed it cody games today they make almost 40000000 a year and employs some 100 full time staff members the company's games. have been downloaded more than 65000000 times. games of the success without you. in best of my menstrual cycle no investor would have given us money anyway we were a startup based in a shared student apartment and we'd never developed a game before the games. that they had no history of game design done and his friends one day started to work on one and. it probably helped that they had to i teach and to engineering students in the team. they invested lots of their free time and eventually released final minute tycoon. games are
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all about play is carrying out simple tasks and i don't mind it talking business you dig up and sell natural resources you can get hooked on these kinds of games even if people and you tend to spend short periods playing them there click it 1st month times call the big games has now released a 2nd game idle factory type kid it's also free to download the company ends money and sententious. their focus give back the focus isn't on selling games because now the players download them and companies have to keep them happy for months or years because there are special events for the live ops for example at halloween a christmas there's something new for the player every weekend of us are selfish to me in that the games are constantly undergoing development and changing got to. develop this feedback about games so they no longer have to him on such huge sums of money for the development stage they keep tweaking the game when it's already
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out this model requires flexibility but can be a huge advantage. pretty safe mistery you need to get the game out quickly to see how players interact with it do what they like and dislike the instead of working for half a year with no feedback with me so i'm going to have to say i'm staying care much if it's. good to play games. there's only 2 games so far. they've got plenty of ideas that are focused on keeping the 11000000 active players i don't mind and actually talking to. the games have embraced one of the industry's new trends live ops that means releasing games as early as possible and using player feedback to constantly improve the product gaming platform steam even has a special early access area players can try our games in the very early stages though there's no guarantee they will catch on and become the next big thing. some
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gaming ideas do quickly evolve into mega projects and can no longer be managed by a small group of friends in which case there are several ways of getting much needed capital. many indie game developers rely on crowd funding to get their projects rolling the kickstarter says only 30 percent of investors stumble upon good ideas by chance most find out about new gaming projects through advertising reports that means developers need to proactively build a community and the very start isn't always the best time for crowd funding. i would recommend who should be at least 50 percent of the way there you need to have a sizeable community. you need to have gameplay and you i really also recommend having at least your 1st 3 at dates planned before you launch a campaign. pitching your new game to investors can be a way of securing money early on there are even special investment funds for the
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gaming industry london venture partners is $1.00 of the biggest it's currently involved with 20 game companies. we are already stage investors so a lot of the investments we do are based on maybe 2 guys with an idea on a pitch they haven't registered a company yet so really really really early. investors tend to be more focused on the market potential of developers and their product than on the content of the game itself. we don't invest in games per se we want to see that the plan you have house and base and to become a leader in that field if you go ome that category but you will know more and be better able to service customers in that segment on that model that you've identified than anyone else also kind of the key pieces for us to get excited. and us getting an investor to spot your idea in the crowd can be tricky let's be.
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honest many games are very simular in late 2018 there are almost 300000 gaming apps available on google play despite the choice i only ended up with 61 games on my smartphone what's important is to have a catchy idea like this pigeon pop just a silly game with funny graphics but one of my favorites at the moment most developers targets what's believed to be the typical game wide western mayors age 15 to 35 though some companies are slowly looking for a new target audience as well finding a need can be a recipe for success. shop has really done some massage and nancy out here in the confessional and there are also characters in the kids' legends a game developed by canadian company next year. it was especially targeted towards young african case they wanted to give young people a model this vision of what
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a superhero looks like this is very necessary to change the mindset of the younger generations to come we need to start seeing superheroes bring cool stuff with a fantasy it is very powerful it can change people's minds i think gives people hope. the game is designed to make african culture known worldwide. joining gay make meanwhile target female players aged 45 years and as a junior skinny and pose peril are some of the biggest titles they're all about finding hidden objects they have cool graphics and a story line that progress is week by week. on the industry still has a lot of white men. trying to hire a range of our workforce is a 3rd female and from 40 different countries with about all sorts of nazi one
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hamburg based startup rachel brain is also tapping into new target audiences they create video games that can be played without a joystick or controller instead players use gestures to control the game which is thought to stimulate the brain. asked economy not so on combining majority neurophysiological and cognitive challenges in memory and that's what we're trying to achieve that's optimal for therapy and prevention. and so on. and so it seems that keeping physically and mentally fit through gaming has proven not only to be great fun ok but also to be a successful business. so what is it that makes the game a success it definitely helps if developers create a kind of community for example with early access and live. though a real gaming hit is one that manages to take the leap from the virtual world to the real world where everyone's talking about it and they know the characters moves
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and faces when even people who don't play it know all about it so what do you make of the rise of gaming what are your inside a gaming tips that isn't on facebook on d w dot com and on you tube well we have some sound scientific facts about why gaming is good for you. that's it for this week so you next time buy.
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