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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

Optimizing bandwidth usage through data compression and server load balancing is crucial for large-scale multiplayer experiences. Graphics Settings: Balance Performance & Visual Quality The settings that control graphics quality determine the smoothness of multiplayer gameplay. What worked?

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Rebalancing Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

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. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). Garrison encounter distribution samples, color-coded by category. RIF Installers were already a prefab to begin with, one which (without precedent anywhere else in the game) were actually inserted via a separate hard-coded method, so let’s add it as an encounter instead.

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Teleportation Mechanics

Grid Sage Games

These offer very little control over direction, although based on their rules if you’re aware of the surrounding terrain you can possibly get a decent idea of where one might send you given your current position. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

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. The grand scene).

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Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Radiator Blog

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. 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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Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

We knew that we needed custom modifications for destructible terrain, dynamic lightning, and support for thousands of swarm monsters. 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.