PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.” Without it, rendering the 800.000 tiles that compromise the game map became problematic, so the team had to spend a week on optimizing that.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sample ASCII art from among the 100 new items. Balancing Levers The idea of “post-balance” from this article’s title doesn’t mean no balance. I’ve organized an overview of some of Cogmind’s special item balancing mechanisms below. They’re that crazy.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. In the end we’d rather tone down some of our more ambitious features to get acceptable performance, and deliver a bug-free and polished release to our players.” “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

The visual look of the game is very similar to Love and Pies in terms of art style and saturated colour scheme, making the game most likely appealing to a wider audience in this space. The event is balanced to provide easy progression upfront, but it significantly slows down as you approach the end.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

While Match-3 remains the dominant force in this competition, we've seen other subgenres like Merge taking the second place, while others, like Tile Match, showed potential but ultimately fell short. Merge surpassed Blast last year and looks like “Pair” that mainly has Physical Match and Tile Match will do the same at the end of this year.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 20, 2022

I mean, part of why I can’t believe that is that for almost a full year after the launch, I was furiously updating the game: two new factions, a new game mode (arguably two), a map editor, tons and tons of balance changes, polishing, bugfixes, you name it. Some of the art is really good. But I’m proud of the whole thing.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?” Indeed, Spellstorm originally started as a sequel to Dragon Bridge, a larger and more fleshed out version (with better art).

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