Rindoku

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’ve been experimenting with different mechanics and completed the visual design for the second campaign. Run an alpha test and absorb feedback. Well ok, I can tell you that this is all happening in 2018 and I hope we can run the alpha sometime in February-March. Levels levels levels! Destructible objects! … profit?

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that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gameplay testing is done before launching the game to identify and mitigate issues in the game’s design, controls, graphics, and mechanics, to mention a few. For instance, alpha gameplay testing occurs at the early stages of development, whereas beta testing occurs at the later stages of development, whereby the game is nearly complete.

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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. Neglecting thorough testing can leave a game unready, even for an Alpha release. Pre-production In pre-production, the creative brainstorming comes to life.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In its first year of Alpha builds Cogmind gained two such varieties of what we could call “intermaps,” in the form of Waste and Garrisons. Strong theme : Intermaps are tightly designed around their own unique mechanics and theme.

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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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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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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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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Raster Operations Units - ROPs : This hardware unit is mainly responsible for writing pixel values into render targets (depth operating, stencil operating, alpha bending, etc.) Arithmetic Logic Unity - ALU : Used for general-purpose computing, such as vertex and matrix operations in VS and FS.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

The collaboration extends to game mechanics and gameplay loops, where player feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the final product. As we are still in early alpha, that may change in the future though. We both share the same responsibilities and brainstorm ideas together based on previous data and research on the market.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

, though definitely less so outside that, as evidenced in part by the lower blog activity until very recently :P This trend held in 2023, in fact marking the first time I’ve spent more than twice as much time on building Cogmind rather than doing other supporting work since the pre-alpha days! All your base are belong to us.

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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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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! The first clip shows a lack of forward momentum when the dodge mechanic is engaged. Don't say we didn't warn you. Level Design.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

I sorta covered high-level process before, albeit more in a technical sense than a philosophical one, in an early article on Cogmind’s alpha release cycle. It doesn’t matter if some mechanic is technically balanced if it doesn’t also feel balanced to players. Difficulty. I want my games to be challenging but fair.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Regardless of the pooling mechanism, avoid memory fragmentation to keep the benefits achieved by pooling. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Do this whenever possible. Use triangle geometries when possible.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

But innovating on basic TD mechanics proved to be a challenge. The genre is sometimes viewed as overly simplistic – Eurogamer’s Chris Donlan wrote that “they can feel a bit like clicker games” – and its core mechanics have mainly been incorporated into more sophisticated games.

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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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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

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 Ceti Alpha 1V/V mix up recalls Khan’s adventures prior to Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan. The groundskeeper calls back to Boothby.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

10C has been mining boronite, and everyone concludes that 10C will see the destruction of the mining mechanism as an act of war. If Book and Tarka manage to destroy the DMA, then they will effectively doom the Federation and possibly most of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. All In” raises the stakes for this back half.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, that moved to beta, then it's moved to Alpha, now it's moved to first playable. Usually in the business and the creative side, they're sort of on the margins, but on the engineering side that's where you get breakouts for new game mechanics like battle royale. Now it's moved to concepting. And drives games like Fortnite.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

Frustrated with the traditional rewarding of slaughter in games, she developed a unique resource management mechanic that discourages unnecessary killing. ” Initially conceived as a portfolio piece, the game evolved over a decade with content-heavy, story-driven mechanics. She used it both as a marketing and playtesting tool.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

With new tracks and a variety of game modes, players had the ability to alter driving mechanics and even tweak their vehicles so they were more realistic. Even though it was essentially the same version as the original, this one had new characters and mechanics. Street Fighter Alpha 3. F-Zero: GP Legend. Super Mario Advance.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 23, 2025

The collaboration extends to game mechanics and gameplay loops, where player feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the final product. As we are still in early alpha, that may change in the future though. We both share the same responsibilities and brainstorm ideas together based on previous data and research on the market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game. This functions as your appointment mechanic - eventually your chest will become full with all this automatically collected rewards. This is a major appointment mechanic, driving the player to come back each day.

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