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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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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Animation Animation Balance Fighting 52

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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Fighting Games Balance Writing 95

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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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.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Games Game Design Engine 130

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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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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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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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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Fantasy Fighting Balance Games 59

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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Balance Puzzle Mechanics Animation 52

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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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Understanding Action Sequence Types They're not just fights and chases; they're storytelling goldmines! These blockbuster moments need: A big threat Multiple viewpoints working together A balance between spectacle and story Successful action sequences rely on crystal-clear positioning and story flow.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. As a Lead Designer for LEGENDARY I invested a lot of time on creating and balancing our first few hundred heroes. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership. Fighting Existential Dread.

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Asset Games Fighting Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

But it can also be a challenge as previous iterations from an over a decade ago build unrealistic expectations and place the bar very high. Rather, the biggest problem, in our opinion, is that the game doesn’t build a great real-time PvP experience that could rival Clash Royale. Having such a nostalgy hungry fanbase is a great asset.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio. This has led to a resurgence in the value of IP in the market, as it is now harder to get new users.

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Mobile Mobile Balance Mobile Gaming 52

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. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

Baking 52

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I considered a lot of options here, going as far as thinking of building a new generator from scratch (one that would make encounters much easier to implement), but I liked the established and consistent core theme of existing Garrisons and didn’t want to mess with that.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Strange Energies” builds upon the strengths established in season one to great effect. Here, it feels rushed, but despite that relatively minor criticism, “Strange Energies” successfully strikes the balance between calling back to a previous season and promising new things for the coming season that makes for a great season premiere.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Something that seems to offer a challenge, but is actually a perfectly balanced system so that no one ever feels frustrated. As I was trying the builds, the game itself was telling me what things would be interesting to add, so I added them. “The modern gaming ecosystem is killing true video games”, he says earnestly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019.

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Mechanics Platformer Studios Data 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This means that the player has to carefully build up big combinations on the board, at the right time, to max out the damage output. And because of that, it was never able to build a big enough LTV to face the insanely high CPIs of the puzzle or puzzle RPG genres. Why did these changes not work? What could they have done instead?

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