Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. But that’s not all!

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that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.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

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2024

The core technologies that a Metaverse Development Company uses include Blockchain, AI and XR and these are continuously enhancing the Metaverse environment through inclusion and decentralization. Haptic Technology uses engineering, neuroscience, and a set of mechanical components to stimulate our sense of touch.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

None of these systems were any fun and weren’t intended to be so; they were mechanics put in place to keep the players from ruining the game for themselves by founding too many cities just because it was simply the most effective strategy.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 40

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

ATT did not kill mobile gaming: UA, game mechanics, and creatives Matej Lancaric , user acquisition, and marketing consultant aking the stage with a phenomenal Lenny Kravitz-inspired scarf and a positive outlook – or “Kumbaya s**t” in Lancaric’s words – the consultant offered tips and context for marketers working with iOS14.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

They are also responsible for implementing NPC (non-player character) movement, performances, and behaviors, which are controlled by AI (artificial intelligence). They oversee both the foundation and execution of the game mechanics and overall user experience. Others are writers and/or world directors who focus on player experience.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2024

I lean heavily on text for as long as possible, postponing prototyping until it’s absolutely necessary. After building out the systems for AI/building/crafting, I had a bit of the game prototyped out, but it was missing something. From there, it’s all about iteration. How do you stay motivated through (years of) development?

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms. Opening level.ts , we can see that the message is listened for in its init function: Msg.on('level_do', this.do.bind(this)); The prototype of the do function in level.ts

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. A good example is what I’ll call “Every Unit Moves” which is how Civ has always worked.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Hence, themed victory conditions were out for Old World , but we needed something in place, especially since we were playing MP within a few months of early prototyping. We were being so old-fashioned!

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AI Simulation Mechanics Mobile Gaming 40

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

To be specific, this surge has been a result of the dynamic audio-visual effects, the natural player-to-character interaction, photorealistic 3D graphics, and engaging levels, characters, and mechanics of the game. This is a step-by-step approach with templates and mechanics for anyone who wants to create a functional game.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

She taught herself programming and volunteered for indie studios, eventually creating her first prototype, ‘Potions: A Curious Tale’. Frustrated with the traditional rewarding of slaughter in games, she developed a unique resource management mechanic that discourages unnecessary killing.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. Under your watch, these AI men wander the randomly generated sex maze and pair-up for sex based on proximity, line of sight, and sexual compatibility.

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