Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. One day several months ago I decided the wait had gone on long enough and this mechanic needed to happen now. Who cares if I didn’t even have a specific use case yet?

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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iXie gaming

JULY 12, 2024

Closed beta testing comes after alpha testing. Like in alpha testing, the number of testers is limited. For evaluation, outline the areas of the game that testers should evaluate, such as user interface (UI), gameplay, game level design, and mechanics, to mention a few. But before that, let’s start with some basics.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This extra layer of strategy balances the need to kill off stragglers, focus on impeding more skilled opponents, or exact revenge against irritating individuals. But innovating on basic TD mechanics proved to be a challenge. “Our intention is to ensure that all cards are balanced. It’s like any deck-building game.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! Speaking of sprinting, Will found a better way to balance our sprinting/dodging control that uses the same button. Level Design.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?” …alert level xD.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Roman Cancels (Red) Long ago, the Guilty Gear series introduced an innovative mechanic called roman cancel that lets you spend 50% of your meter (the same cost as a super move) to cancel any attack instantly on hit or block. False Roman Cancel (Blue) In the game Guilty Gear XX, the series added a new mechanic: the FRC, or false roman cancel.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. It was added relatively recently and so has not been tested in the alphas as much as other features. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Also in 2019, land sales began (an extension of the Axie Universe, which we’ll break apart in a later section), the marketplace shifted over to the Loom Network (a Layer 2 on Ethereum), and the card battle game community alpha released. Image: Axie Infinity core gameplay - turn-based RPG + card battler mechanic.

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The episode strikes a great balance between plot, character development, and in-universe references. Rutherford, having lost his memories, relies on notes left by his past self in order to complete the model, but for whatever reason, various parts of the mechanism confound him. The groundskeeper calls back to Boothby.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. Now, that moved to beta, then it's moved to Alpha, now it's moved to first playable. You're dictating that everything below them is going to be mediocre at best in your company.

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