PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

” The Victorian style undergoes a transformative journey, embracing otherworldly magic, allowing the art team creative freedom to explore the fusion of sci-fi technology, crude materials, and nightmarish creatures within the game’s realms. An area that springs to mind is just the balance of survival systems.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Making a successful Indie Film Schedule is an art form in itself. To strike the perfect balance you can use the following scheduling strategies: The Art of Prioritization ? The Juggling of Art and Practicality in Efficient Filmmaking ? Strategies for Creative Film Scheduling ? Not all scenes carry equal narrative weight.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Some of these could be obtained by playing through the event, while others required in-app purchases, so there was a balance in trying to keep all players relatively happy. PUBGs mobile crossovers are a great example, letting players unleash Dragon Ball energy beams and fight alongside Evangelions towering mecha.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Now he's working full-time as a freelance illustrator and has created art for clients including Marvel, Upper Deck, and Monumental. So I figured I would follow my heart and find my path back to an art career. Magic: The Gathering card art for Wizards of the Coast by Oliver's mentor, Eric Wilkerson.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

To see why this isn't a good module, note: The scenes in the cover art are NOT IN THE ADVENTURE. The Tomb of Horrors was an early attempt to solve a very difficult problem: How to balance a turn-based RPG once characters get very powerful. You can always make the numbers bigger, sure, but that's boring and leads to eternal fights.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

It's art, after all. A Few Final Comments When a computer RPG has a very complex terrain system with lots of elevations, it becomes tempting to have every fight be complex with a spread of enemies at all sorts of different heights. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Nicely done.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 29, 2024

(On the advice of my lawyer, publicist, and priest, I offer no opinions on the cover art.) How do we do game balance? The Oracle, forever, sucks in a fight, but it is 100% able to predict that it will suck in a fight. I still have a pile of my old issues, and they reliably make fun reading. It was full of wild new ideas.

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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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Sirlin

JANUARY 16, 2015

@SirlinGames www.facebook.com/SirlinGames New and revised characters for the popular fighting card game round out cast to 20 available characters throughout 2015. Yomi simulates the mind games and other strategic choices found in video fighting games without requiring that players have the dexterity required to master those games.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Great art, great music, good writing. Cool combat system, good art, good music – overall, good stuff. Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. You want the balance in RPGs, to be spiky, and have a “naturalistic” quality to them.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. Accessibility is a word that gets thrown a lot, as if a work of art is obligated to try to appeal to everyone. A Word About Production Values As a work of visual art, this game is very, very, very pretty.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional. I wanted a colony sim where other settlements around you aren’t just a static backdrop, but parts of a living, simulated world. And so far, the team is happy they did.

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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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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Loot RPGs need to carefully balance the player dilemma of "this would be useful" vs. "this is better to sell" and this tips that balance too much toward the latter. The starting area is like 2-3x the density of vanilla Skyrim. Money sink.

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

What do these stupid, boring numbers have to do with the glorious art of vidya gaems? “My Development Life Is Crap From Wall Too Wall, I Have No Time, and Now I Have To Look At Incomprehensible Corporate Balance Sheets Too?" What have we learned? Besides nothing? Go Look At the Chart At the Top of the Article Why? I'm so tired.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

It just shows that success can be obtained in different ways, and in the case of Hero Wars, the success is likely due to how well the cheap art style works with misleading ads. The effect of the release highlights the importance of balancing between releasing things quickly and testing. Fighting Games.

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Filmustage

JULY 31, 2023

Francis Ford Coppola's " The Godfather" (1972) is an exquisite example of how a narrative with a balanced plot structure , a thought-provoking theme , an engaging genre , an intense climax , and a satisfying resolution can keep audiences on the edge of their seats. ? Brad Pitt in Fight Club (1999). of many facets.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But, as I talked about above, it’s a new KIND of deckbuilder, in a bunch of ways: Eight asymmetric, fighting game style characters with their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. The star of the show for this game is surely going to be the amazing art, which is by Christina Zhong. It’s a deckbuilder!

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I'd like to talk about the design behind it, but we really have to start with the art. Starting by telling you about the art may seem superficial, and maybe it is, but the art in this game is so notable—such a breakthrough—that I think it deserves special attention. It's hard to play other fighting games without Burst.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes. Alien Artifacts.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art. Dragos Geomolean – Additional 3D Art. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Carmen Palade – Animation. Radu Cristea – Programming.

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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. Mediocrity means there is no obvious innovation in art and graphic design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. As a Lead Designer for LEGENDARY I invested a lot of time on creating and balancing our first few hundred heroes. No matter how cool the art, players have no use for Prophet Minera.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

Yet, when it matters, when you're in the fights, the meat of the game, you always have a fair chance. The difference between craft and art is learning when the rules should be broken. It is a very cool fight with very cool design. This is the best known, most-feared fight in the game because it breaks the rules.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players. Set of 6 Meeple Adventure Art Prints – Print at Home File Download – 8×10.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Understanding Action Sequence Types They're not just fights and chases; they're storytelling goldmines! These blockbuster moments need: A big threat Multiple viewpoints working together A balance between spectacle and story Successful action sequences rely on crystal-clear positioning and story flow.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. That, slapped on with some vibrant colours, cute art style, and upbeat music, made playing this game a treat. Which is a difficult balance to strike. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. This chapter will investigate the art of Cookie Run: Kingdom , its origins, its characteristics, and its efforts to expand into new markets during globalization. Art Style To talk about the characteristics of this art style, we must start at its origin.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Since the defender has no way to protect his coins during a raid, the odds are balanced for the attacker by limiting the total loot that can be stolen and also fragmenting the total loot across the defender’s base.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. This is the first piece of the puzzle — a founding team that is skilled in the art of designing highly addictive Hyper-casual core game experiences, while having the expert know-how of quickly validating marketability and scaling rapidly once globally launched.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. Vigor, albeit having a really nice environmental art style, lacks character and weapon design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The interface, and the art style in general look very ‘Supercelly’. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019. were released.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is a balance play to ensure players are completing the pass at a speed necessary to maximize player attention while reducing economic inflation from free pass rewards. Thus driving on player engagement and stickiness. This is an area where a large liveops team would really help drive diversity and relevancy on content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Even better, the team has showcased a holistic focus on the game: Masterfully balanced the gameplay with regular nerfs/buffs, refreshing the meta Designed for both elder and new players, often forgotten by mature games Took risks (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important. That also means it is the strongest lever in Sky Mavis’ hand to balance the SLP economy during times of token inflation / deflation. Image: Axie Infinity Energy to SLP generation relationship.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult.

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