Balance Bug Terrain 
Radiator Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.
Mircosoft Game Dev
APRIL 13, 2022
Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. We knew that we needed custom modifications for destructible terrain, dynamic lightning, and support for thousands of swarm monsters. One example is the debris particles interacting with 2D 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.
Game Errors
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
But fear not, for I have scouted the terrain and returned with strategies to bypass this impasse. Additionally, while looking for solutions, I stumbled across the following causes: Outdated Game Version: An older version of the game may have unresolved bugs causing loading delays.
Grid Sage Games
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) Even after five years, birth_levels_persist is still considered an experimental feature with potential bugs to work out. Birth options menu during Angband character creation. Architecture.
Radiator Blog
JULY 6, 2021
Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. Liberal players might try to "balance" a police presence with "limited gayness", queer or anarchist players might prune all the police entirely, and Tory players might engineer a cringe garden consisting solely of police and high street retail, etc.
Radiator Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. It already feels so fraught to me.
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