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Sanatorium - a mental asylum simulator

A fraudulent doctor assessing your symptoms: Meet ‘SANATORIUM’

Set in a fictionalized version of the 1920s where the lines between modern psychiatric treatment and pseudoscience are still muddy at best, Sanatorium is a card-based workplace adventure where you test, diagnose and treat patients. Welcome to another post of our Indie Spotlight series where we showcase the creative process of indie designers and developers and how they gather player feedback.

leverage player feedback to develop the ultimate user experience in games

How to leverage player feedback to develop the ultimate user experience in games

What is this episode all about? Games in Web3: how is WAX (now Tyranno Studios) different, why is retention so high in these games, why is onboarding so important and more.

Top 5 Dribbble game studios’ fan art

Top 5 Dribbble game studios’ fan art

Oh games, games. You turn around a stone in the online world and there’s a new spot the games community has taken over and made it shine. Such is the case of Dribbble! We absolutely love finding unique and amazing designs and how fans demonstrate their love for games through art and design. So after going over tons of profiles we thought we’ll share some highlights with you.

seasons highlights

Highlights from Season 1 & 2

We are very excited to start with Season 3. We will have incredible industry professionals as guests from companies such as Playstudios, Afterburner Studios, WAX, Plarium, GlowUp Games and much more. As the first episode of this season, we wanted to share with you some highlights from Season 1 and 2 and also, share with you our new format of the podcast, we hope you love it as much as we do.

Silvia Gallo

Meet Silvia Gallo: Winner of September’s Player Insights Champion Award

At Affogata, we are pleased to introduce the ‘Player Insights Champion Awards’ and recognize members of the games industry who have shown exceptional success in using player insights analytics to drive business value, growth, and innovation.

journey to “the cloud”

Sleep mode proves dangerous when “the glitch” sends our character on his journey to “the cloud”

Ready to be immersed in a retro environment with glitch art, living in a world full of hardware and software gore? We bring you our latest game we’d love to highlight in our Indie Spotlight Series: a series featuring inspiring and upcoming indie games, that gives you a sneak peek into what's going on inside their creative process, and what makes them tick. This week's game is a retro-inspired platformer, where you are put into the role of a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat "the glitch", a mysterious entity that threatens to destroy the world.

Pastry Panic

You’re gonna have to feed that cat before your shift ends: Meet ‘Pastry Panic (with cat)’

The star of the game is a cat. You’re hectically following the on-screen instructions to cut, knead, and prepare the dough for that ever-hungry cat. And you gotta hurry! The cat must be fed enough pastry dough before the end of your workday. If you manage to feed it the most dough, you get the highest score - ‘Pastry Panic (with cat) is another amazing Alt. Ctrl game (alternative controller game) we met at GDC - Game Developers Conference, created by Yong Zhen Zhou.

Fernando Ferri

Meet Fernando Ferri: Winner of August’ Player Insights Champion Award

Affogata's Player Insights Champion Awards were recently created to shine light on the amazing Player Insights professionals in the games industry. These pros are out in the field, relentlessly serving the passionate player community, as well as providing the studios with needle-moving insights, straight from the voice of players.

Avatar 2

High expectations for Avatar 2: The Way of Water analyzed by Affogata

Fans have been patiently, but excitingly waiting for the release of the sequel of the highest-grossing movie of all times: Avatar. This year, we saw the reveal of Avatar 2: The way of water with an incredible first trailer and we can’t wait to watch it. Avatar: The way of water is due to be released in December 2022, with an extremely long delay as it was supposedly going to be released back in 2015. There have already been several big announcements for the sequel, such as Kate Winslet joining the cast and the incredibly innovative technology the movie uses, such as submerging themselves in to film sequences that take place underwater. With so much expectation, fans have already been discussing extensively the sequel, commenting about their forecasts, the visually aesthetic trailer, and much more. Affogata analyzed all this feedback from the open web from May 1st to July 26th and came up with the following insights.

Affogata & Dots.eco go green

Affogata & Dots.eco go green at Gamescom

Gamescom goes green and so does Affogata and Dots.eco. Environmental protection and climate protection play an important role in the games industry. So how can you also join? Hello everyone and welcome to Affogata’s podcast: Let’s talk customer feedback.

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