Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Prototyping Fantasy Fighting Terrain 130

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that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

Balance 52

Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

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.

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

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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Mechanics Games Balance Game Design 52

Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. I think this is a really bold move on the developer's part and also the most surprising feature that I've seen in a fighting game in years. Why is it called that?

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Fighting Feature Balance Mechanics 52

Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

But Omega Royale, which began development three years ago, will be a ten-player fight to the death, in which players individually take on waves of enemies, but must also send baddy boosts against human players. But innovating on basic TD mechanics proved to be a challenge. You build your deck based on the way you prefer to play.

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Co-op Mechanics Balance Build 52

Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Initially, a bit stumped, Owo discovers a fighting ring and persuades Burnham to let her go fight for money. 10C has been mining boronite, and everyone concludes that 10C will see the destruction of the mining mechanism as an act of war. Given how advanced 10C is, that would be a war the Federation could not win.

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Fighting Data Alpha Beta 40