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Anima Flux is a co-op Metroidvania with a retro-futuristic visual flair

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“We set ourselves a very difficult and ambitious goal that no one else has ever set before, to combine Metroidvania with co-op gameplay.” “ Anima Flux started as an idea for a visual novel or an interactive comic. “The hand-drawn animated cutscenes are crucial to the main storyline.

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Baladins from Seed by Seed is a narrative co-op RPG that respects your time

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That’s why the play sessions of their narrative-driven, co-op multiplayer RPG Baladins last around an hour. Narrative designer and Seed by Seed co-founder Antonin Demeilliez explains the idea behind Baladins. They fit the world and are much easier to animate. Hence the table-top look and feel”, says Demeilliez. “So,

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Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

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The anime art style is fairly similar to the one in Genshin Impact, but one of the biggest differences is that Tower of Fantasy players explore the open sci-fi world of the planet Aida, rather than the fantasy setting depicted in Genshin Impact. Tower of Fantasy: Co-operative challenges in the open-world.

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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

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All these crossovers come in different shapes and sizes too, spanning everything from fashion brands, automotive, anime, TV, movies, and even other video games. For example, what if narrative was tied to a daily login or co-op event? However, two collaboration events in particular really captured our attention.

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Lesson 7: Types of Games Supported by Unity

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Unity Supports split-screen games, multiplayer, co-ops, etc. It’s got really cool art and some really awesome advanced art techniques with shaders and things like that to make cards look animated when they aren’t. Just very basic animations and all of these objects. Monument Valley 2 – 3d mobile game.

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2024 Cherry-picks

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Strategize with animals and nature in mind! Enjoy co-op gaming and procedurally generated worlds in Unrailed 2. Of Life and Land Build your own settlements in Of Life and Land and experience different maps, scenarios, and rich simulations. May Did you know that we still update Godot 3?

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