Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole. Meanwhile, VR dev continues, as artists learn Unreal 4's art pipeline and do lookdev to figure out how to update the Psychonauts art style from 2005 to 2015. It was a quirky story-first 3D platformer with jokes that were actually funny.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

Everyone must be online from 14h to 18h on Discord because this is ‘when things get done’ and we can all do brainstorms, playtests and all that.” She drew a lot of the first concept art for the main characters. The company started creating multiplayer games because the founding members wanted to playtest games together.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time. Even with no tutorial. seconds.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time. Even with no tutorial. seconds.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play. Thanks to playtesters JoyModulo and Spootnik for playtesting and feedback, and thanks to Fairweather for organizing and additional QA. Blood Gulch!

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I like variety in my work (art, coding, animation, marketing); it keeps things interesting and I also love seeing my own progress over the weeks, months and years.” I also released the demo on Steam early (after invite-only playtesting) so I can gather feedback from real players. And the biggest pitfalls?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Every iteration of each game has to be created somehow and there are A LOT of iterations – usually a new one after each playtest, especially in the beginning. Whenever I demo or playtest, I make sure to get the email address of the person, so I can inform them when the Kickstarter starts.

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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. Some people finished the demo level in 4-5 minutes. You’re working in a bubble for 12 hours a day to get that last build ready for the demo and then suddenly: BOOM!

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The most obviously different of the group is item info, which saved enough lines by moving its art off to the side. Secondary Windows As per the mockups, many of Cogmind’s secondary windows that were originally designed for at least 50 rows had to be squished down to 45, including machine hacking, the status window, and item/robot info.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Many creators choose to focus on making a brilliant game, well play-tested, with great art, and good Kickstarter potential. We finally got to a point in 2014 when he said, “I think we’ve done enough, we can start playtesting it.” ” I would say the demo copy is extremely important. And that’s fine! We spent 3.5

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

art, design, technology, physics, coding, music, maths, 3D, problem solving, empathy, and fun!” Feedback from playtest sessions with friends or players is really important. Plus, hearing from people who played the demo, really like the game, and want to talk about the details of it is the best. Especially early-on.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Since then, we've been laser-focused on our next big milestone: completing the entire vertical slice for Kristala.Which means we're inching closer and closer to the official release of the game's demo too. Concept Art. Each clan's capital city will have its own unique starting point. 3D Modeling. Green Potion: Cures poisoning.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sample ASCII art from among the 100 new items. An ancient demo image from Cogmind pre-alpha with a deteriorating item state listed on a hypothetical item. As part of this drive, for months I’ve been creating over 100 new items, most of them including new mechanics. Some individual items take days or even weeks to build.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

ASCII art for Exiles prototypes. As is the changes are too new and we’ll have to see what real playtesting turns up. So yes this was another of those early “purely because we could” things without any playtesting or strong design basis, and it eventually showed. Overload utility art. Trap Extractor demo.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

I was able to raise enough money to hire contractors to help me with art and audio but I didn’t raise enough money to pay myself,” she says. I decided that launching a demo of my game was going to be beneficial and I made sure to get as much reach as possible.” She used it both as a marketing and playtesting tool.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2024

I didn’t really know any people who were good at the other game-related disciplines, like art, level design etcetera, so I just tried to learn all those things by myself. Setting arbitrary deadlines if you don’t have any actual ones, like telling a friend to come over for a demo session.” You can’t afford that nowadays.

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