"Words With Friends" is a digital word-building game popular on several platforms.
In 2012, Markuss Persson, also known as Notch, who created Minecraft, was honoured with a special award in recognition of the success of the block-building game.
Dissatisfied with the way stealth games in the past lacked precision, and came down too often to a sort of elaborate guessing game, the team focused on building a game that presented every piece of information necessary to the player to make his or her choice about how to proceed.
The actor helped develop Ecotopia, which is a new city building Facebook game that was designed to encourage conservation in the real world.
We're talking about someone who was programming by age five, building video game consoles by the 5th grade and making appearances on NBC's Today at age fourteen.
In many cases, games with a particular educational or social mission have tended instead to go the reverse route, starting with the message and then building a game around it.
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Companies and brands need to understand that instead of game mechanics, they should be trying to achieve game dynamics, by creating and building a fun game experience from the ground up.
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Nine volunteers with amblyopia were asked to wear the goggles for an hour a day over the next two weeks while playing Tetris, the falling building block video game.
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You can also build in the toy box world, which means players will only be limited by their own imagination (and time and commitment to building in video game worlds).
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The franchise has pulled a similar trick with each successive location, using the setting as the main driver for creating hype while slowly building a better game through a series of titles.
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It was unclear whether intense sports rivalries or political strife sparked the riots, though witnesses said tension was building through the game with Port Said fans throwing bottles and rocks at players on the Cairo team.
The design here is impeccable, a truly ambitious and exciting and gorgeous display of building a linear game that is not linear, an open world that is not open, filled to the brim with secrets and wonder.
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For those of you without kids or who live on a remote island without a broadband connection, Minecraft is a legitimate worldwide phenomenon, a building block video game that launched in 2009 and now has over 8 million paying customers and a total of 40 million users worldwide, its own conference, and a legion of YouTube stars.
When Plum Builders CEO Al Giaquinto started building homes, the game was the same.
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Idle Games has been building their first social game, Idle Worship, for two years now.
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"We did a great job of building off of last game, " Stamkos said.
Consider that some social media pros have been in the game of building virtual connection since the blogosphere was fringe territory.
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After three months of building civilizations in the game world, rather than the world of fiction, he deleted his files and smashed his CD.
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So, if you thought building that slick new game for Android or iOS was going to give you a leg up on the coding competition when seeking work at Facebook HQ... think again.
It is very late in the game to begin building a state-by-state campaign infra-structure.
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By fifth grade, he was building his own video-game console with an electronic-projects kit from Radio Shack.
That's the only way we can look at it, to try to win one game in our building.
We're getting better each day, building up to that big game next Thursday.
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The owners said the old labor deal didn't take into account the rising costs related to building stadiums and promoting the game.
Addressing thousands of game designers at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Thursday, futurist and investor Ray Kurzweil argued that game developers are building the future, literally.
The multiplayer element was also essential for other aspects of the game, including the building of historic buildings and landmarks and to help players cope with world events and challenges.
The game focuses heavily on building relationships.
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He just spent the past six years building a replica of the Cyan game's signature, Age-traveling link books that includes a full Windows XP PC with a 1.6GHz Atom, a 2-hour battery, a 5-inch touchscreen and every playable game from the Myst series stored on a CF card.
Ballmer told ReadWriteWeb recently Microsoft will now become a consumer hardware company, building its own lines of tablets and game machines.
They have a robot that competes in a two and a half minute game and then they start building with other materials, keeping the computer brick, the NXT Brick.
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