Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. This is likely due to the game’s varied upgrading system but also due to the way the daily gameplay focus shifts from one mechanic to another.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. They just liked the mechanics and continued playing until the event had ended. Try different combos, too.

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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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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?

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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic. Strategize with animals and nature in mind! Turn-based mechanics and an RPG flavor round off the experience.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Its 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. This system reflects our key underlying value of unity in the game, as we uniquely weave the theme into our mechanics.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Players usually generate income by winning fights and must use strategic thinking to decide whether to use that currency to buy new characters, upgrade their existing characters, raise their team size limit, or refresh the selection of characters on offer.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Core game loop is a base of your game’s mechanics, that will be repeated by the player. Here’s an example of a core loop in a very simple game focused on fighting monsters: Core game loop does not need to consist of one single loop, it can be made of multiple ones that overlap each other. Assets & animations. Core game loop.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

They're super skilled at creating mechanically beautiful weapons and armor adorned with gears, sprogs, and tons of bronze. Just like the Kota weapon concepts James created above, these armor concepts skillfully integrate various steampunk elements to beautifully highlight the mechanical and scientific prowess the Kotakaya species possesses.

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 11, 2024

Moreover, AI-powered algorithms contribute to more sophisticated game mechanics, such as advanced enemy AI, realistic physics simulations, and personalized gaming experiences through adaptive difficulty levels. Machine learning techniques are also being harnessed for character animations, thus enabling lifelike movements and expressions.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Conversely, if you are developing artwork for a role-playing game (RPG), you may prefer to employ a more complex and intricate art style, incorporating lively colors to animate the game’s world. Enhance the gameplay with animation Animation is an effective way to elevate your mobile game’s level of engagement and excitement.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight! link] Rigging / Animation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Although the Tactile team has several titles under their portfolio, the well-known swapping mechanic is not very common among their games. Especially with their two most recent titles Lily’s Garden and Penny & Flo , Tactile has been a stronghold for story-driven puzzle games with the collapse mechanic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

All of which results in a near slots experience that makes the most of addictive slots player psychology , while using casual versions of proven F2P mid-core mechanics to capitalise on feelings of Loss Aversion and Skinner Box driven habit forming. Coin Master’s Game Systems. Most definitely, “Spins” drive all core loop engagement.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich. The grand scene).

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Still, they all provide a similar service: they produce graphics and animation for games, web applications, and other digital content. 3D characters are great for games that need to capture players’ attention but also have more complex mechanics like fighting and other interactions. 3D environment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. The adorable characters, detailed worldbuilding, and an animation style that is both refreshing and polished made it easy for players to immerse themselves in the world of Cookie Run and hard to leave.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In the trailer, you can tell that these two siblings are fighting a lot. If you enjoy anime just as much as I do, I think you’ll enjoy it. There won’t be any huge mechanics to show in the game, but a little nice story for you to enjoy. I wanted to show the relationship between the two siblings. Harvest Island Demo.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 18, 2025

Animal wranglers for the hero's trusty sidekick? Mother Nature's greatest hits (rain, snow, wind) Mechanical marvels and moving parts Safety rules (because nobody wants a real disaster movie) Testing schedules (practice makes perfect!) Share Equally: Resource Management Remember fighting with siblings over the TV remote?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

King lost third of downloads but woke up towards the end of the year to fight back for downloads. While the zoo theme was on the money just a few years ago, with the rise of the animal rights movement, building a prison for animals is arguably not something the majority of their target audience fantasies.

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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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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.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I argued then that we need to stop assuming that a game’s theme or SETTING determines its meaning and, instead, that meaning comes from the mechanics themselves. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about games which do a good job of constructing meaning from their mechanics and also about ones which do it poorly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. All those beautiful Sith Lords and Spidermans are expensive to model, rig, animate and integrate. 4 A billion dollar fighting franchise will launch in 2020. Same Studio. More depth.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. I love his new walk-backward animation that makes his feet rapidly shuffle around like a cartoon character. During various anime cut-scene closeups of the characters, I have exclaimed multiple times to onlookers, "Remember, this is 3D." I don't know.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Building the interface for designers to tweak combat-related parameters to create specific fights (e.g.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Animator - 1. The amazing things the aliens can do include running, walking, melee attack, fighting and dying. As the player progress, they gain access to more unique levels that showcase a wide variety of different obstacles, paths and interesting mechanics that makes each map a unique experience. Time Duration of Project.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will add animated sprites to represent both a hero and monster. We will also provide a tile based room for them to fight in. Dungeon Tileset Animated Warrior Animated Rat In addition to the ones I included for this lesson, you can find several other free assets by the same contributor here.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

link] Not only does this new trailer feature a ton of sweet cinematics created right in Unreal Engine using our own models and animations, but it also showcases two new characters you’ll meet in gameplay during Kristala too. The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala. Concept Art. Check it out! Programming.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Ground Gives Way has an especially interesting approach, having the dungeon’s statues come to life after you acquire the trombone relic (yes, trombone) at the bottom, and you have to escape without being killed by the animated statues or whatever other creatures might still be in the way because they weren’t dealt with before.

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