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I want to share with you one of my recent works. 🙌 I prepared it in Blender, using standard material settings. Recharge stations can be used as part of gaming content or environments. The recharge station model is made with moderate detail and can be easily integrated into various projects. #art #3dart #modeling

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How has hyper-casual changed the Turkish gaming ecosystem? Turkey has made major progress especially in the mobile gaming ecosystem between 2019 and 2023. It has become a successful ecosystem in terms of hyper-casual production. It was a small step especially for those who want to produce games. Let's not forget that Rollic is a big factor here. We have become a country that is the focus of successful hyper-casual games. We have also become the center of attention of other publishers. Let's leave aside the big match-3 games. Mobile game companies that could sustain their revenue cycle continued their lives. With the effect of the great crisis, the saturation of the market, the normalization of life after the pandemic and the decrease in mobile game revenues, some companies closed down and some companies looked for a way out.  Here we saw how talented studios are in the Turkish gaming ecosystem. An option was found for companies with survival skills "simulation games" Most of these game companies were successful or unsuccessful studios coming from mobile game production. When we look at the simulation games coming out of Turkey recently, we see that they are successful and more games will come. I'm not saying this to belittle the games; The knowledge and experience gained in hyper-casual production pushed these studios to simulation production. Less production load, use of prepared assets, less risk and high profit possibility (like as hyper-casual know-how) Anyway, if you analyse these studios, most of them are studios coming from hyper-casual or their employees are like that. If these studios can survive the next recession and generate a revenue cycle, the next step will be to release more different games with stronger development and marketing knowledge. These games may seem like short-term successes. This shows that the pains of the hyper-casual genre are behind us. I am sure that we will see more impressive games in the coming years. In this sense, Turkey is an ideal place to invest for the gaming ecosystem. All you need to do is to discover studios or person with high survival skills. #simulationgames #gameinvestment #gameindustry #videogames #gameproduction #gamemarketanalysis

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Unreal Engine 5.4 - Nanite Tessellation ve Render Target ile Kar Deformasyonu.

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I was recommending for years to move from mobile market to Steam and shift production to PC projects, because it's more rewarding, stable and fair. You literally can expect result without tossing a dice every time you publish a game or update. Why so? Well, let's deep into some facts and compare two markets: - Most mobile teams/companies, especially in HC genre was motivated by the fact they was able to get enormous amount of money from the "7-days prototype game". - But on average they was needed to spent from tens to hundreds attempts during YEARS, with no guarantee to success. - Recommendation algorithms on distribution platforms such as Play Market created in a way to make developers highly dependent on the advertisements and force them to pay for every user, leading them to maintain user conversion really hard. - Experienced developers who have worked with Play Market since it's start know how much the recommendation algorithms has changed during the years, completely destroying possibility to get meaningful native traffic without paying for every user. - Even direct search app by it's unique name will have no success and Play Market will rather show not relevant results. This happens because Google desire what app is more important and profitable to them. - Low entry border of HC games and semi-random trends created strong illusion to companies that they can pack whatever quality product and sell it to players. This was illusion even before HC crash happened, because so many teams tried and only a few achieved success without understanding what they should do nowadays to keep the auditory interested, but whatever was before is not the case anymore. - Mobile gaming auditory is more sensitive to troubles in the games, no matter what it is: UI/UX issue, game play issue, complexity, bug or tutorial. Any small mistake can and WILL ruin the metrics of the game really hard, unlike in PC gaming, where players more patient, challenging and open to feedback and discussions. - As the result >99% of HC teams has failed on this route, when they was able to ship several PC projects(1-2 per year at least) and get guarantee profit from each, often enough to continue improve and develop the games. This is not a case for platforms such as Steam, because it's search and recommendation algorithms always helping to interesting and even less popular games to find it's auditory. Even most bad games receives some players as well as income. Moreover PC gaming community is so well developed they will advertise your game better than any marketing company you can spend budgets on. This is the fact. And vice-versa: hyped advertisement company will often gives 0 guarantee to make games successful. You don't need to jump into trends in PC gaming industry, but instead you always free to setup your own trend, if idea of your game is complete and playing well.

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Part 2 of Kilitbahir Vr project: Inside of the stronghold and main tower

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⚡🕹️Project Showcase: Skeleton Lord -Let's talk about my newest game “Skeleton Lord”. We developed this game with my dear friend Elif Azra MURAT in a period of 1 month. You can download and play on itch.io:https://lnkd.in/d7w5iRXB -This project is the same as “Telekinesis Samurai”. Since I developed both games in the same time, it helped me improve myself a lot in Unreal Engine 5 and C++. About the game: 📌 In this game, we have sword and shield, magic and lightning throwing abilities. 📌 In a small village, we pass various skeleton enemies ( wizard, meleee, bomber) and fight with skeleton lorda who has the same characteristics as us. 📍 Game Title: Skeleton Lord 📍Development Time 1 month 📍Publication Date: July 20, 2024 📍Developed with: Unreal Engine 5 C++ 📍Art and Design: Elif Azra MURAT created 3D models (Sword, Player Character) Youtube: https://lnkd.in/dsvSsZq7

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Our goal is to make the most of Unreal Engine's features for rapid prototyping during game development. We can't wait to hear your thoughts and ideas! Special thanks to Burak Ahmet Kayıhan for his contributions to Game Design and Development. #UnrealEngine #GameDevelopment #RapidPrototyping #IndieGameDev #GameDesign #UnrealEngineCommunity #Prototype #IndieDev #GamingIndustry

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We joined to Ludum Game Jam 55 with my friend, forcing our developing abilities to maximum! Though, we had no time to add Turkish as a language, so beware of it before trying it! (Language is no part of it but still, feels wrong to not add it onto a game I make as a turkish person) I created a summoning system based on the order of the inputs you put in. Basically like Helldivers' stratagem system. I will explain how I coded it later on! Here ya go:

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Hello folks, Here is a part of the process of an ancient Iranian ornament ( Persepolis Soldier) in timelapse. In the end, this head should be matched with the body and Rig for the project Hope you like it #ornament #character #modeling #texturing #sculpting #environment #vfx #production #rig #asset

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Learning some geometry nodes . Here is a procedural rattan pattern I made for practice https://lnkd.in/dDe5nzYp

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Dark Sorcerer 3D Character Sculpted and Retopologized in Blender, PBR textures painted in Subatance Painter and VFXs made with Unity Particle System. Also Character Riged and Animated in Blender too… • • • #3Dcharacter #gameCharacter #dark #sorcerer #realTime #vfx #game #animation #sculpting #modeling #particle #texturing #pbr #unity #blender #subatancepainter #gameart #characterdesign

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"A Calm Island" | Blender Animation This project made for "GAD2016 3D Animations for Games" course in Bahcesehir University (Istanbul) w/ Hamit Akbaş. Bachelor of Digital Games | 3rd Year Final Delivery (2022) - Low-poly environment model and level design - Most of models made in Blender, some in Maya - Animation & rendering done in Blender Artstation: https://lnkd.in/dbqY4Uxs

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Every new project is an opportunity to meet new people. To become a part of a team of real professionals, creative personalities and just interesting people (Alexander Lodygin, Svyatoslav Kondratchuk, Anton Belchynskyi, Helen Kvitchenko), to enjoy the process of work is a great luck. I am sincerely grateful to iDoRecall.com educational project (David Handel and Lev A. Mazin) for interesting tasks and amazing acquaintances. The goal of the iDoRecall project, in partnership with Barbara Oakley, creator of the Coursera course "Learning how to learn", is to help people learn. It is a web application that is used in the browser along with a Chrome extension. For studying hard, users of the app are of course rewarded. My assignment was to create reward animations, with different behavior depending on the context and fully controllable by the developers. I also had to animate the icons on the buttons to make this serious app a little less serious :). Since app users receive pearls as rewards, it was logical to assume that the rewards should be given to them by a shell. Initially the work on the reward animation was conceived as the creation of a personal assistant, a cute cartoon character that would then be used elsewhere in the app as well. That's how the fun bouncy shell came about :) Then it was decided to create a second more serious version of the award animation, where the shell is just a shell :) Thus, another user customization has been added to the app and users can take a break from studying to think about which of the two assistants to choose. For both variants, complex Rive state machines were created with reactions to Hover and Click events, as well as giving out a certain number of pearls depending on the user's progress. The application control panel button animations are also created with Rive state machines and have reactions to Hover and Click events.

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Here is my new 3D model rendered in Unreal Engine 5. I have created procedural materials and some hand painting with PBR workflow. The amazing concept image belongs to Ilka Hesche

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I am delighted to share that I finished the first project course from CG Boost Academy! ✨ This was a foundational course for me to learn more about Sculpting, Rendering, and Animating in Blender. I cannot wait to continue with my learning journey with them! #Blender #3DSculpting #3DAnimation #3Dmodeling

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We'd like to say a big, warm welcome to the new Tactilers who joined us in the past few months - Cenkan Cengiz, Level Designer, Erman Seles, 2D Animator, Said Bahçeci, Game Monetization Manager, and Julia Gomez S-Giron, who joined us as our newest Ads Monetization Manager! 🤩🎉 We asked them to share a bit about what they'll be doing here and also, don't miss out on their fun facts! 👋 Hi, can you tell us a bit more about your role at Tactile? Cenkan: Hi! I’ve recently joined Lily's Garden team as a Level Designer. My role is to deliver the best experience to players through the levels! Keeping players engaged with fun designs and producing the most suitable content for them by tracking data will be two of the most important things I will focus on. Erman: As an animator at Tactile, I bring characters and environments to life with engaging animations that align with our art style. Working closely with designers and artists, I ensure animations enhance gameplay and tell a compelling story through movement. Said: Hi everyone! I’ve recently joined Tactile as a Game Monetization Manager. My role primarily focuses on helping craft engaging experiences for Lily’s Garden players by delivering tailored content to them. What excites me most about this role is the data-driven decision-making it requires. Julia: Hello! I've joined the team as Product Manager for Ad Monetization. I’ll be working on blending ads seamlessly into the game to keep the experience fun for players, whilst helping the game to grow.   ✨ Do you have a hidden talent or a fun fact about yourself? Cenkan: One time, I fell while skateboarding and cracked my ribs. The reason was that I didn’t want to spill the beer I was holding, otherwise I could have fallen much more safely. Don’t drink and skate! 🛹 Erman: Hidden talent? I can spot animation mistakes in movies faster than anyone - it’s a blessing and a curse! Said: I really enjoy having biscuits for breakfast. In fact, I’d estimate that biscuits have been a part of at least 80% of my breakfasts over the past eight years. Julia: Besides marketing, I also studied audiovisual production, and one thing I love is video editing. It relaxes me and I can easily spend hours on it when I get in the zone. Thanks for sharing all, we're so happy to have you join our team! 💜 #LifeAtTactile #newstarters

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THS-16 DRAGONFLY | PALPUS WARFARE SYSTEMS Designed by Emre Gence, 2024 Ankara,Türkiye. More renders on https://lnkd.in/d5uFK6eP Software I use: Unreal Engine 5.4 Blender 3D Adobe Substance Painter Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe After Effects #unrealengine #unreal #blender3d #3dmodeling #3d #animation

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🚀 New Behance Project! 🚀 Excited to share my latest design project, "Nuts and Bolts", a fast-paced and trendy game that me and my team developed. Check out the full design journey and creative process on Behance—link in the comments 👇 💡 Now available on Playstore too! #GameDesign #UXDesign #Behance #NutsAndBoltsGame #CreativeProcess #CreativeJourney

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🎮 Top Game Picks of the Week! 🎮 Welcome back to another week of exciting mobile game discoveries! This time, we’ve got a thrilling mix of strategy, matching, and puzzle games that have kept me hooked all week. Let’s jump right in! --- 1) TDS - Tower Destiny Survive by SayGames 👑 King of the Castle (or Tower!) In this super fun tower defense game, you'll find yourself defending your very own tower against relentless waves of zombies. It’s not just about surviving; it’s about strategically building and fortifying your tower to withstand the onslaught. The cute animations combined with the challenging gameplay make this game a standout title. If you love strategy games that test your tactical thinking, this one’s for you! Appstore - https://shorturl.at/ZzzUI Googleplay - https://shorturl.at/D9LSn --- 2) Triple Treats: Tile Match by Calumma Games 🍰 A Sweet Debut! Calumma Games has hit the ground running with their first release, Triple Treats. This adorable tile-matching game takes you on a sweet journey where your matching skills will help you create delectable bakery masterpieces. The beautiful visuals, paired with a fresh building meta system, make this game a delightful treat for both your brain and your eyes. Perfect for a relaxing yet engaging gaming session. Appstore - https://shorturl.at/WFMfX Googleplay - https://shorturl.at/VVIju --- 3) Magic Sort by Blu Studios 🔮 A Magical Twist on Sorting Puzzles Magic Sort brings a new dimension to the classic water sort puzzle genre. Help Wizard George sort out his magical potions in this beautifully designed 3D puzzle game. The animations are incredibly smooth, making the gameplay both relaxing and challenging. If you enjoy puzzle games with a bit of magic, Magic Sort is definitely worth a download. Appstore - https://lnkd.in/djVAbUVx Googleplay - https://lnkd.in/ds5y3XDk --- That's all for this week's top game picks! Each of these games offers a unique experience that’s sure to keep you entertained. Give them a try, and don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments below. Happy gaming! 🎮

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