PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. We discuss a lot during this process, but my game direction style is generally to empower the different teams (art, design, sound, animation) to trust their own instinct”, he says.

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Puzzle Prototyping Art Communications 257

iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

This makes it ideal for fighting games, Metroidvanias, and RPGs. Hybrid Animation Techniques Games like Cuphead rely on meticulous, hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations, while Octopath Traveler takes a modern approach, using AI-assisted rendering to apply real-time lighting and physics to pixel art characters. Challenges in 2.5D

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Art Game Design Game Designer Hitbox 52

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. His impeccable animation skills shine in the teaser videos he meticulously moulded for his debut title Kanairo 101. After discovering the world of frame-by-frame animation he turned his school books into flipbooks.

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Animation Animation Fighting Development 145

Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As an example, PUBG Mobile’s collaboration with the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion introduced giant Mechs into its battle royale map that would attempt to shoot down players, while Cookie Run Kingdom’s collaboration with the K-pop band BTS saw the action-RPG gacha game adding a rhythm game mode. Vikingard x Vikings TV series collaboration.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Game Development 243

PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. There are even plans for a third saga in animated format targeted at babies and toddlers, featuring singing characters.

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Entertainment Build Games Animation 197

Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. But not really.

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Studios Co-op Open World Cutscenes 246

Game Designing

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Great things are created with a good plan, which is why any animation project must begin with a storyboard. Before an animation project is greenlit, a storyboard often must be presented to the decision-makers. And when it is approved, a more comprehensive storyboard is developed to outline all the details of the animated story.

Animation 52

Animation Animation Software Technology 52

Ask a Game Dev

JULY 12, 2023

Animations are typically not built to be easy to modify because we don’t need to do it all that often. Most of the time, the character performs the animation and we call it good. Most games do not need to tune a particular animation beyond being able to scale the animation playback speed to fit within a certain number of frames.

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Animation Animation Balance Fighting 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. where the main drawback is you're still vulnerable during the 2 second execution animation.

Fighting 130

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 130

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

While Insult Sword Fighting is one of the first things people think of when they hear Monkey Island, I thought it seemed little tedious (but fun) as I played though it again. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I'd make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

Puzzle 130

Puzzle Point and Click Fighting Animation 130

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2024

Captain Velvet Meteor was a short animation he created as a graduation project, that dealt with how a child’s imagination can really transform the world around them. “As Powerful imagination To unite all these different characters from all these different worlds, Rinaldo reached back to a universe he himself created years ago.

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Indy Fighting Communications Entertainment 169

Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game follows the template of many open-world RPGs, with players invited to freely explore, climb, glide, and fight their way through the vast region of Teyvat as they take on various quests and activities. Slime Isekai Memories The turn-based RPG wraps 4X and tycoon mechanics around a base-building meta layer.

Mobile Gaming 275

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics 275

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

While Insult Sword Fighting is one of the first things people think of when they hear Monkey Island, I thought it seemed little tedious (but fun) as I played though it again. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I’d make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

Puzzle 130

Puzzle Point and Click Fighting Animation 130

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it. Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity.

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Dev Development Feature Prototyping 104

Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Animators typically count things in terms of frames. Some designers care about frames specifically too, but engineers and designers generally use milliseconds or decimal seconds (e.g. seconds) to describe how long something should be.

Animation 52

Animation Animation Debug Dev 52

Game Industry News

MARCH 9, 2024

It takes place before the final timeline of Madoka Magica’s anime, and it details a time when the time traveling Homura Akemi is so broken and despondent at her failure to save her friends yet again in a timeline that she just gets on a train and ends up in Karakura where she meets the Kurosaki twins.

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Fighting Writing Animation Animation 101

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Gamathon 24 brought together video game developers, animators, comic artists, XR developers, and tech enthusiasts, all determined not just to survive, but to truly thrive. It began with an online workshop by Joey Ansah, on fight choreography for video games. And Africacomicade was at the forefront, leading by example.

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Esports Games Animation Animation 104

Sirlin

JANUARY 19, 2016

Thank you to all the patrons supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. The animation has been replaced with Flying Rainbow Stroke (aka chicken wing), so that it’s obvious that it wouldn’t combo. --All The real animation will start with a “time stop” where he fills up his gear meter 3 times, then gameplay will resume.

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Fighting Fantasy Build Games 40

PreMortem.Games

MAY 27, 2024

It’s up to the three heroes Vishva, Ramli, and Guru-ji to gain the trust of the villagers and unite everyone in their fight against the demons that are aiming to seize their precious heirloom, the almighty Celestial Glue. Our big dream is to expand into multimedia, producing fun animated series or cool vinyl toys of our characters.”

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Art Studios Content Indy 166

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. We discuss a lot during this process, but my game direction style is generally to empower the different teams (art, design, sound, animation) to trust their own instinct”, he says.

Puzzle 104

Puzzle Prototyping Art Communications 104

Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

As in 4X titles generally, the player is first familiarized with the base (called anthill in The Ants) and its construction mechanics and is soon introduced to the core gameplay map for some resource collecting and enemy fighting. The rough core loop is as follows: Troops collect resources and fight others on the core game map.

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Fighting Mechanics Simulation Data 130

Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. All these crossovers come in different shapes and sizes too, spanning everything from fashion brands, automotive, anime, TV, movies, and even other video games. Their secret to success?

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Mobile Mobile Co-op Mobile Gaming 130

Game Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Heralded by loud music, they open the door into Jankom Pog’s street fighting program. Who knew that the engineer enjoyed street fighting? It may have been my computer, but the animation for this episode felt a little spotty. They follow the crew into Murf’s nightclub simulation and narrowly escape into Dal’s pirate simulation.

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Simulation Fighting Horror Animation 105

Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare. The weakest is perhaps the wolf form, where the animation doesn't quite match the movement physics. But also veganism?

Indy 130

Indy Film Games Point and Click 130

Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Martial arts one-on-one fighting games have been a staple for consoles and arcades dating back to the 1980s. Another reason to get Arcade Edition is to avoid the slog of unlocking characters in V by means of accumulating Fight Money. Get Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition (PS4) 2. Get Tekken 7 (PS5) 3.

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Art Fighting Editing Graphics 52

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. As a typical MMORPG feature, players can also challenge others for an open-world fight.

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Fantasy Co-op Open World Feature 130

Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights). I’m taking a page from games like Fallout 1 and 2 or Arcanum here, where an encounter means “you encounter something” It’s often a fight, but it’s also often that you find some NPCs, a wandering shopkeeper, or even a secret town or dungeon.

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Fantasy Pixel Art Fighting 119

Rampant Games

MARCH 3, 2022

Sony has taken the museum experience for Sword Art Online (the anime / light novel / manga / video game / merchandizing phenomenon) and put it in… Virtual Reality. I like the anime. As in the anime, you have your group join up in the dungeon in front of the hall to the boss room. To which I say, “Well, about time!”

Art 52

Art Fighting Animation Animation 52

Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In short, Root is a wargame wrapped in a theme about adorable animals. Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. Clearly, they’re doing something right here. So what exactly is Root ?

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Game Design Game Designer Games Balance 130

Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Last and certainly not least, I plan to post a new playable version of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep fighting game (for the $25+ patrons). We need help in all those areas, but another experienced combat animator is what we need the most.

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Fighting Fantasy Balance Concepts 52

Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

Fighting in the streets After working in the production of Irem’s 1984 beat ‘em up game Kung-Fu Master, which was an instant success both in Asia and North America, Japanese designer, director and producer Takashi Nishiyama came up with the idea for a fighting game centered around the boss fights of the previous title.

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Fighting Film Horror Entertainment 52

Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

"Sexy" is a subset of the twelfth principle of animation that's applying here - "Appeal". This is on purpose - you can tell at a glance where the attacks will be coming from when she fights. She looks pretty, but there would be so much context lost if this were used in a game - how does she fight? What's important to look at?

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Fighting Dev Animation Animation 52

Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Alpha Fighting Animation Animation 40

Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Alpha Fighting Animation Animation 40

Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a fighting-platformer game. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Alpha Fighting Animation Animation 40

Cocos

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is a fighting-platformer game. For animations we use CocoStudio 1.2.0.1 I want to share a small video from the alpha version of our game Jaws & Claws (unnatural selection). The game has been under development since November 2020. We use cocos2d-x 3.17.2. and sometimes DragonBones Pro 5.6. For scenes we use Cocos Studio 3.10

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Alpha Fighting Animation Animation 40