Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Once acquired, players could use these characters in battles but also interact with them through messages and other in-game social mechanics. Fly High Regardless of genre, most anime-based titles are monetized through gacha mechanics. There are even some anime games that focus on sports, like Haikyu!!

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Depending on the type of IP you want to license, collaborations also provide an opportunity to freshen up your narrative elements and gameplay mechanics. How well does the franchise – if it’s a film or TV show, for example – lend itself to your gameplay mechanics? Does it match your target demographic?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. However, when people think of storytelling in games, they think of theme, story, art, components, and even box design. ” I’ll see a piece of art or hear an ancient myth and – boom – I’m inspired.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics. The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.”

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

We will cover everything from crafting intuitive and engaging game mechanics to creating immersive storylines and themes to prioritizing user interface and experience. Game Mechanics Video game mechanics are the foundation of any game and dictate how players interact with the game world.

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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. While there were games like Karate Champ that helped popularize the genre, it was Street Fighter in 1987 that really set the tone for what would come for Martial Arts games over the following three decades.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Since I was a child, I always found myself surrounded by art, because most of my family were artists (ballet dancers, painters, musicians). One day I discovered video games could be much more than just ‘entertainment products’, and fell in love with the idea of mixing all the things I loved about art in a new medium.

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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. “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.” Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity. And so far, the team is happy they did.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. 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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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2024

Their previous titles, such as the intense boss-fight game Furi and the romantic space RPG Haven, have established them as innovative storytellers. ” Climb anywhere Beyond the innovative climbing mechanics, Thoa is particularly proud of a feature that visually tracks the player’s progress. But it’s worth it!”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Art Director Sally Luc believes that every team members origin and unique perspective on the world help shape something that goes beyond solely whats popular. 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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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment. This article will explain about Game Art Studios and what it means for the future of gaming! What is a Game Art Studio?

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

They must create art that is optimized for mobile devices, easy to understand, and engaging for players. All these and more are key to developing a successful game, and this article will focus mainly on tips that serve as art production solutions for developers. Furthermore, using a consistent art style can aid in brand recognition.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. This is the art for Spectrum in War Co., is the art.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Let’s say Sword Art Online did release today using current VR technology. Not much else is said about the death mechanic in the other game worlds of the series.

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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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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Path of Exile is the current state of the art for RPG addition engines. The Deceptively Tricky Art of RPGs I've noticed something over the decades. There is an art to this genre, something I can say since I have achieved mild success working in it. The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. SIGN ME UP!

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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. Mastering the art of LiveOps. In this 2v2v2v2 event, fights are broken down into several 2v2 rounds in small arenas, with each team having a limited number of lives. Their secret to success?

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We already have the first several seasons of content for this game scheduled - we plan on adding several significant boss fights and content updates over the course of the next year. That boss already has all of its mechanics locked down, all of the art done, all of the voice over recorded, all of the features designed, and so on.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). It has all real and beautiful art, not placeholder, and the rest of the factions to follow very soon. Instead.it's fun.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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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. Turn-based mechanics and an RPG flavor round off the experience. You can find the takeover recordings on our YouTube.

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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.” We’ll see players talk about features they’d like to see or suggest mechanics, and if our idea is sound, we bring it up in a team discussion to see if we want to include it into the 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Martial Law by @GroupFixer tells a story about Poland in the communist era, family, and making choices – all with gorgeous pixel art. s soundtrack seems pretty fitting anyway for this fast-paced "die and retry" runner with a beautiful art direction! Mechanic 8230. Martial Law. Terra Ventura. The Ballad of Bonky.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

And basically EVERY SINGLE FIGHT is: dodge roll their moves, then counter attack with all your stuff. But it really doesn’t matter much what skills you take, it changes almost nothing, because there just isn’t much mechanical terrain in this game. That’s it. That’s about it!

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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. Core game loop. Assets & animations.

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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 is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Money sink.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

Game Art: Fashion Innovations The art of Dislyte is a manifesto from “the future”. Vaporwave was an online artistic movement started in 2010 that used psychedelic elements in art and electronic music. Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha. Scenic design inspired by vaporwave.

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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. The only way to go is to perfect the art production and art outsourcing. Always look to decrease production cost by simplifying the art style. 1 Idle RPGs will drive the genre growth.

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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. With 5 free spins being granted every 50 minutes, their availability is limited and hence they are an energy mechanic of sorts. Most definitely, “Spins” drive all core loop engagement.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 9, 2021

Art by @nadi_bulochka About colour and light Light Throughout the director's filmography, his philosophy of guiding his characters through an impenetrable darkness peeks through. If you pay attention to all the camera passes and movement in general, you will easily notice that these are purely mechanical movements. We love movies here.

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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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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.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In the trailer, you can tell that these two siblings are fighting a lot. As you watch the trailer more, the game’s art is beautiful. There won’t be any huge mechanics to show in the game, but a little nice story for you to enjoy. So that means I can expand the game just a tad more with the art!

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