PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time! Are you using AI in any part of your development process? “By

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Building the interface for designers to tweak combat-related parameters to create specific fights (e.g.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The mobile version is proving just as popular, with over 120 million players battling each other and over 100 clever AI opponents hoping to become a chess grandmaster. The game also features over 500,000 tactical puzzles alongside various interactive lessons and videos to help players improve their skills.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Money sink.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Sirlin

APRIL 8, 2015

Yomi is a fighting game in card form and it's the competitive card game you should be playing. Just like in a fighting game, you have to learn your character's strengths and weaknesses, read your opponents' tendencies, and land combos when you can. Yomi is coming to Steam in the next few weeks!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. There’s no reliance on overly realistic, gameplay-affecting survival mechanics like limb injuries, hunger, or thirst.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Not much else is said about the death mechanic in the other game worlds of the series. In the later game Alfheim Online , level and skills were all but ignored, emphasizing player skill like a shooter or fighting game. The image to the left is AI procedurally generated art based on the Wizard of Oz…). Sword Skills.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Unicorn Run also introduces flying powers and shooting mechanics to help you achieve higher scores, adding an extra layer of excitement to the gameplay. Although it received praise, some critics noted aggressive AI and the absence of cockpit view details as drawbacks.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This deconstruction will cover: The game’s core loop Why having chosen a basic match-3 mechanic was a safe bet What other games have tried The game’s features and to which kinds of players it caters How time-limited offers and events are run successfully. Making a puzzle game doesn’t mean you can make the mechanics themselves a puzzle.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

In those games, players recruit characters and run semi-turn-based battles versus either AI or other players. Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha. First, the mini game “DJ Contest” borrows mechanics from rhythm games. Still, Dislyte made some “micro-innovation” for differentiation.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 18, 2025

Mother Nature's greatest hits (rain, snow, wind) Mechanical marvels and moving parts Safety rules (because nobody wants a real disaster movie) Testing schedules (practice makes perfect!) Share Equally: Resource Management Remember fighting with siblings over the TV remote?

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. Even a handful of new mechanics or other properties are often enough to help create that question in people’s minds: “what else might be possible in this game?”

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. The simple sheep AI now has two behaviors: they run away from you if you approach them, but they'll follow you indefinitely if you give them a carrot.

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