Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2024

If we're building a big budget AAA first person shooter, we can expect that our representative player recognizes and likes first person shooters and is likely already familiar with the basics of how to play them.

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First person Dev AAA Fantasy 49

Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called. Planescape Torment's final boss fight conversation works because the god stuff is a metaphor for the protagonist's personal arc -- the final boss isn't god! The Forgotten City (2021). They had to rebuild Skyrim systems in Unreal.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The biggest acquisition in the sub-genre happened last year, with Applovin acquiring Machine Zone - the company that made some of the most iconic top-grossing 4X games of all time (Game of War, Modern Strike, Final Fantasy: New Empire). A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games.

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