Using Social Proof to Battle Toxic Behavior

I just checked and toxic behavior in online video games continues to be a problem. At least sometimes. Game companies and community managers often combat players who call each other terrible things and tell each other to uninstall the game. This kind of community management requires expensive and cumbersome systems like reporting, banning, and karma systems. These are great and bear no substitution, but from my conversations with game developers and community managers, they’re often on the lookout for cheap, simple, and easy-to-implement solutions to supplement these approaches. I was reading through some older studies about the science of persuasion and came up with one idea that might help.

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One thing that social psychologists have come to understand about people is that when

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Why You Need a Unity Specialist for your Unity Game Development

There’s a reason that games on Unity make up somewhere around half of all games on mobile, PC, and console. Unity game development is user friendly, accessible, highly customisable, and offers a wide range of opportunities for developers to implement into their final gaming experience.

Unreal Engine 5 is competitive with Unity, especially as it evolves to offer new features for developers, and our teams are always on hand to provide specialists for your UE projects as well. However, the accessibility of Unity game development usually helps to keep developers’ interest thanks to its wide uses in both gaming and non-gaming industries. Unity has gained popularity and shows no indication of slowing down! As it is accessible and diverse Unity can be used by developers of any project. The Starloop team will now explain why you need a Unity specialist for your Unity game development project!

Easy to Learn,

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The 7 Stages of Game Development

The game development pipeline is a lengthy process. In our experience working on everything from AAA titles to smaller-scale projects, a common thread are the stages of game development. Though we’ve seen on some productions that there can be extra layers of complexity to it, the stages of game development remain the same at their core.

We view the stages of game development as consisting of seven phases, and equal effort should be put forward at every step to make a game the best it can be. Each stage is deeply tied to another, and issues during one stage could cause problems later in the pipeline.

Planning Your Game

Every game starts with an idea. Before any graphics, audio, or mechanics can be implemented, the game’s idea needs to be fleshed out, and some fundamental questions need to be answered.

Figuring out what genre of game it will be, the

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Find the Right Website Development Company for your Niche Product

There are hundreds of different methods to find the right website development company, but for the niche product, it takes some real research and proven methods. So how would you find the right website development company to uplift your niche product? 

First, let’s take a quick look at what types of websites there are and what should be offered by a website development company. 

types of websites

Read More: Why Successful Businesses Choose Custom Website Development Services?

Now you can decide on which type of website you want to develop based on your niche product. Once you finalize the type of website you need, you should follow this step-by-step guide to choose the right website development company. 

choose the right website development company

Visit Company’s Website

Check the company’s digital presence, including the official website (desktop and mobile version) and social media handles, and check the blogs to get some ideas on how they work and what they offer. 

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Using Games to Develop Empathy

Empathy –the ability to recognize and share the thoughts and emotions of another person– is not just a nice-to-have ability. It’s a critical skill for those working in certain professions like doctors and nurses. An empathetic bedside manner can make a huge difference in making patients more comfortable, helping them recover, and even making them less likely to complain or sue hospitals. As such, it’s something to be not only sought out by doctors and nurses, but actively trained during their time in school.

What if video games could help with that? Some recent research suggests that it could and that virtual reality games may even make people experience greater empathy.

The researchers had nursing students play the soul-wrenching game That Dragon, Cancer, a point-and-click style game about a family whose very young son has terminal cancer. I feel a little sad just typing that, but the subjects had

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3 ways retailers are preparing to thrive in the metaverse

Already a significant driver in the transformation of the retail industry, e-commerce accelerated further as companies pushed to keep up with customer demand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, as e-commerce growth increased, it highlighted conventional digital marketing’s lack of customization and engagement possibilities. Brands quickly realized that they needed to do more to attract new customers and retain existing ones, sparking a digital revolution that saw many retailers upgrading their technological infrastructure and laying down frameworks for metaverse use cases.

Metaverse experiences can provide consumers with an all-access pass to their favorite brands. From participating in product design and R&D to exploring products virtually – just as they would in person – the options for creating interactive, engaging shopping experiences are endless. Going forward, retailers must continue to build upon the foundations they’ve laid and merge the digital and physical into consistent and meaningful brand experiences if they are to

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