PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2024 it will be 10 years since I wrote the first lines of code and I never planned to spend more than 2 or 3 years on it!” Besides these well documented ones, the biggest problem I experienced first hand was balancing the game’s difficulty. What’s your creative process? “I I’m not a big fan of too much planning.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I don’t write any code; instead, I handle data from our games or the market to guide the company’s direction. The team includes 4 founding members ( Goodness Omogbadegun , James Ohia , Ephraim Duvbiama and Ikpeme) and 9 teammates, which allows Ikpeme to balance his full-time job and his role at Dash Studios.

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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. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

Limiting city counts has many gameplay benefits, such as more predictable victory point thresholds based on cities, better balanced per-city bonuses, more consistent city value weights for the AI, and a generous minimum distance between cities to allow breathing room for one-unit-per-tile combat.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility. They turn the vision of game designers into a functional reality, writing the code that governs how a game behaves. FX artists require a mix of technical, creative, and interpersonal skills.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated). 1UPT, on the other hand, helps balance some of the extremities of the Orders system by making it more difficult to kill a unit via stacking.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

These include File Sharing for collaborative and one-shot work; Shooting Schedules & Shot Lists for the right balance of time and budget; and Storyboard creation to help you build a picture of your future project. Celtx claims to be game-industry friendly, which clearly broadens its profile with story maps and rapid prototyping tools.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Paweł and I are teaching classes on simulations and game dev that are heavily based on Godot Engine mostly due to Godot being perfect for fast prototyping. Some of the features were added just because they were fun to code and have this “cool” factor about them. GDScript is my favorite as you can do a lot with a little bit of code.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Finally, city sites also gave us a natural place for tribal camps, which helps drive conflict and ensures that the player needs to balance expansion with military and not just spam settlers. Civ 5 introduced one unit per tile, a big change for the series.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hence, themed victory conditions were out for Old World , but we needed something in place, especially since we were playing MP within a few months of early prototyping. Then make sure to always choose the religious option! I kept it a secret because I wasn’t sure playing ten rulers would actually work, and it turned out I was right.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. They get to a prototype level. I try not to allow my companies to spend 18 month coding before they get any sort of you know, there's so many. They can't code.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur.

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