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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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

If your game becomes unplayable due to a glitch in the rules, a logical inconsistency in mechanics, or even a wickedly overpowered strategy, you cannot blind play-test it. If you only have one viable strategy, you could be looking at problems baked into the mechanics or even core engine of your game. Period, point blank.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Stumble Guys uses IP in live events to introduce new gameplay mechanics Stumble Guys x Nerf Over on the casual Market, Stumble Guys fumbled home with the other Best Collaboration Event Award. Introducing other elements into live events doesn’t necessarily mean building completely new modes or expansive gameplay mechanics.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you haven’t, it’s the act of taking gaming elements and mechanics and applying them to your non-gaming app. Unless this feature is baked into your core and players expect it, no one wants to sit around for half an hour doing an intensive quiz. They’re masters in the art of keeping users engaged and happy. What is gamification?

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

One good reason is to know your inheritance, to reexamine it, to look for ideas which were baked into the very earliest version of the game and see if changing them could transform the experience. A good example is what I’ll call “Every Unit Moves” which is how Civ has always worked. Every unit gets to move once per turn.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Exposed the mechanism for building custom panel plugins to the public, examples have been updated in the build plugin template. Fixed the issue where moving the probe point after baking the light probe caused the loss of the baked effect of the probe. Optimized the usage of compilation engine cache, fixed an issue where the cc.js

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Baking Texture Platformer Build 40

Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Tap to grill, bake and prepare dishes to the top. The mechanics of the game rely on food and restraint upgrades which allow the user to advance through the game. What makes this game interesting is the array of ingredients, kitchen appliances, and dishes. Technologies Used. Project Challenges. Food models.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

In the coming articles, I will introduce the mechanism of Cocos CRP, and explain it by taking Cocos Cyberpunk as an example. It includes three passes. DeferredGBufferPass DeferredLightingPass DeferredPostPass Pipeline Selection Next, let’s see how to decide which rendering pipeline to be used in Cocos Cyberpunk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Now onto the differences… A new way to define ‘casual player vs player’ (PvP) The biggest glaring difference between the two games is the new attack mechanic that is baked into the natural linear progression and appears every 10 levels. It’s an additional visual progression mechanic, which we know works well for the audience.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way. A baking light map wouldn’t help either (trees are moveable objects – can be hit by cars passing by), so the only reasonable option was to decrease the number of polys. We had to focus on the matter of readability.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. Make the gameplay satisfying Helping a player experience their fantasy is only half of the work. Does it feel good when playing?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. Limited regen (e.g. hide for 10 sec = recover fraction of lost health) you can upgrade the regen fraction or regen delay, but imo a waste of upgrade slots I'd prefer full regen with less max health, or Halo-style shield meter. No hoarding / shopping trips.

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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

Character controller Separate animations for the upper and lower body Shooting while in motion Shooting mechanics, bullet tracking, bullet decals, hit detecting Enemy spawning, pathfinding and AI 2. A complete framwork for developing TPS games Despite the imperfect gameplay experience, it offers a complete shooting game framework.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet. Currently, the mechanism to traverse from scene to scene, as well as ensure that the scene files are valid, is complete. That will be added in the following weeks.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Baking/Kitchen. So, I’ve become that person who decided to learn to bake during the pandemic. Meeple Word Cloud of Game Mechanics. Someone said there should be an even more giant meeple that can eat the big meeples, like the T-Rex in Jurassic World. Description from Etsy. Meeple Pillow – $20. Description from Etsy.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? Organization.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

While building up the hair shader, however, Pete struggled to find a way to actually bake out the flow map information (meaning: the directional flow of the hair cards) onto an image pulled from the 3D suites our modeling team typically uses, like Maya and Blender. Convenient, right? Say it with us, y'all: HALLE-FRICKIN'-LUJAH!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. Previous versions of the engine provided users with a powerful, but obscured mechanism for preparing imported 3D assets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. When CoDO development started, there was barely any successful 3D free-to-play shooter in the west and free-to-play design as a whole was fairly unexplored outside of Facebook games.

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