PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“What interested us as game makers is the idea of building worlds that have depth and substance to them. By building, crafting, exploring and fighting your goal is to become a skilled Realmwalker that finds their way through the portals to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity. “An

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. She scores by constructing buildings in the Woodland. They score each turn by building and protecting roosts in the Woodland. Seem like a monster to balance? So what exactly is Root ? Really enjoyed.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel. RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. It looked really exciting to me, he says. Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

Firstly to Android (Google Play), then PC Steam* and later iOS if Apple allows my old MacBook to use their newer software to build apps for iTunes. Faction fleet battles are larger, with each side sending more ships to the fight. Help to keep frame rates smooth during bigger fleet fights with carrier builds.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In season four’s ninth episode “The Inner Fight,” Mariner makes explicit that her self-sabotage stems from her fear that she’ll become a general who sends young people out to die like Picard was for Sito. I’m really hoping that the showrunners and writers will build on this idea in the next season.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. Yet once you conquer that danger, the game lets you take virtually any material you find in the environment and build with it. Furthermore, intuitive controls allow players to build skills and play around freely.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Some titles, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby, have taken things one step further by taking a multimedia approach, with mobile games, anime, and manga series all coexisting and building an ever-expanding universe. The most interesting uses of anime IP in the mobile market tend to do something more aspirational from a gameplay perspective.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 12, 2023

When we build game systems, one common method of differentiating the work is “things we probably will change” (e.g. We build the things we expect to change such that it is easy to make those changes. Since we expect designers to modify these values a lot, the engineers build the system to make it easy to set and modify those values.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. Riot has succeeded in building a brand that players trust. After four months TFT has $.43 43 Revenue per Download.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. New Entrants are Struggling to Break-In While elder games have been fighting over a stagnant TAM of players, new entrants have struggled to gain traction into the market.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

The rules for this item are complicated and fiddly, but if you work hard and think about it, you can build your character in a way that makes it sort of useful. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. That said, the balance in this game is very strong. Then follow through. Me, I sold it.

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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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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

Traditionally, a machine learning practice that accurately predicts player churn required a team of data scientists with a supporting team to manage the infrastructure to run those ML predictions—all of which takes cycles away from building and improving the actual game. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

If you'd like to learn more about Codex, here's three articles about the game's design: #1 Codex Design: Cards and Gold As Resources #2 Codex Design: Heroes and Tech Buildings #3 Codex Design: Combat and the Patrol Zone Anyway, all those Codex early access sets already shipped out and my patrons often play each other over Skype.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight. But What About Different Builds?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

If you make a game about building skyscrapers, this is equivalent to making a mechanic around gathering building permits. It upset the whole drafting balance. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, doing this for one to eight players (or, as it stands now in WoW anywhere from 10 to 30) means eight balancing passes for every encounter. This means we need to think about building a system of rules to do this for us quickly and easily. while others like specific attacks and cooldowns often require more careful balancing.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I had been very into the original VS. System from Upper Deck and wanted to create a game that required a player defeat the opposition by using two resources, base building, and unit building. Melee – a unique fighting game that got a new lease on life as people exploited glitches and created a new form of completion.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Minigames are an important thing to have in an RPG: they can break things up, they can open new routes for worldbuilding and character building, and they can contribute to the worldishness of the game. Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. Forced Minigames.

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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel.” RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. It looked really exciting to me”, he says. Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Balancing One Game Is Hard. Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help. No matter who you are, Elden Ring is balanced to be unsatisfying.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions).

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Categorical Approach. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But with so many different examples of battle passes on the market these days, developers have had to get increasingly experimental to build on their past successes. They help each other progress through the game, participate in co-op events, and fight other guilds for world map control.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

But Omega Royale, which began development three years ago, will be a ten-player fight to the death, in which players individually take on waves of enemies, but must also send baddy boosts against human players. More sophisticated games soon emerged that featured deck-building and MOBA elements. It’s like any deck-building game.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. This decouples the player's behavior from their character build. Loot RPGs need to carefully balance the player dilemma of "this would be useful" vs. "this is better to sell" and this tips that balance too much toward the latter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In this piece I completed for term two, Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, reaching for the magical sword that he can use to finally defeat her. What good would that be in a fight? I was trying to build a portfolio aimed toward MTG, so I painted it with this in mind. So learning this balance was a big thing for me.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. Videogames are a language, and this pattern is an important building block in that language. Kakariko Village from Ocarina of Time is one of my favorite towns. It is kind of good that you know you’re always safe in town.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one!

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I was really unsure any of this would work at all, since internally it’s quite complex and therefore hard to gauge what outcomes are possible and whether they’d really fit into Cogmind, which has a pretty strong focus on design balance. Creating a construct and modifying one are two rather different processes. Construct Creation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Similar to viewing a base and choosing where to attack in mid-core Build & Battle games, one can choose which opponent structure to attack. It should be mentioned that unlike mid-core Build & Battle games, the attack experience in CM is a simple and quick one action affair.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

The rule: Whenever an enemy attacks you, no matter what your character build, you have a reasonable chance of being able to evade the attack. Yet, when it matters, when you're in the fights, the meat of the game, you always have a fair chance. It is a very cool fight with very cool design. If you are naked, you can still win.

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