Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Compare this to the variety of mobs in Doom and Quake maps, with terrain designed first and foremost for the NPCs. All in all, I enjoyed Enderal and learned a lot from it.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

But before I explain the narration, I want to jump back in time when I started building the endless terrain generator. At that time, I wanted to make use of the fact that the terrain was procedurally generated and I could make big changes in the topography by just slightly tweaking some variables according to my needs.

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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. Then follow through. Follow your vision. In the tabletop game, wands recharge every day.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. I can imagine this as a great tool for artists of all kinds, even when it focuses on digital painting and concept art. Designing the game world's creatures. I suggest you try it out yourself.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. There are some nice art pieces in here, particularly the monster designs are pretty cool. That’s about it! That’s something that I wish more RPGs would be.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Local Expertise: Leveraging the expertise of local scouts and guides is invaluable in uncovering hidden opportunities and navigating unfamiliar terrain. The movie was primarily filmed in the Philippines, which presented various logistical problems due to its remote and challenging terrain.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Object Auditioning: Another goal I had today was to audition as many free art assets as possible to see what I can make work within my game environment. Free art assets are great, but using many together often result in a disjointed and visually inconsistent game since the assets often weren’t designed to exist in the same world.

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Game Dev Unchained

APRIL 30, 2024

Francisco’s insights into the marketing landscape proved invaluable as they navigated this complex terrain. As this chapter closes, another awaits, filled with new challenges, new sounds, and new adventures in the art of game development.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I would never have bet on a ultra-detailed dwarf simulator using ASCII art. With Offworld Trading Company, because the game had random maps, each game started with a short exploration phase where you scan the map and found your colony with only part of the terrain revealed. Certainly, that can be said for video games.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

By Civ 3 , veterans had mastered the art of rearranging citizens each turn to avoid wasting a drop of growth or production. Players had complained that cities were too similar to each other, which was certainly a problem with yields coming less from the terrain itself, as with Civ.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Despite its relatively small item pool and low emphasis on random variants, Brogue has an even greater emphasis on terrain factors that really help support the dynamic gameplay in a way that keeps repeated runs interesting. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Filmustage

JULY 31, 2023

You are not merely narrating a tale; you're molding perceptions, delving into depths of empathy, and beckoning audiences to journey with you through unexplored emotional terrains. It’s not just about being a creative powerhouse, but also mastering the art of managing a crew, maintaining budgets, and navigating production constraints.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

ASCII art for Exiles prototypes. Overload utility art. During the naming review I decided it was time to consider removing the lowest tier of terrain scan processing utility, the only one dubbed a Seismic Analyzer in a world where all the other tiers were more obviously named… Terrain Scan Processor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Auto-tiling in tile maps.

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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. Afterwards, Bud doesn't reciprocate, mostly because I didn't want to pixel art yet another sex scene and I think I hate doing pixel art. Much of the pixel art is from the gorgeous 64x64 tileset by Yar.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. And traditionally, Architecture with a capital A has looked down on landscape architecture as a lesser art, neglected beneath the "great men" erecting skyscrapers. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Art: The Ordinary Makes Greatness Though Lost Ark is mediocre in art design, it is mature and full. Mediocrity means there is no obvious innovation in art and graphic design. Design: beautiful and romantic without considering The art design of Lost Ark is a standard Korean online game style. Oily skin texture).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These offer very little control over direction, although based on their rules if you’re aware of the surrounding terrain you can possibly get a decent idea of where one might send you given your current position. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors.

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