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. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

All your good pieces are trapped behind a wall of bad pieces, so you both have to spend a bunch of turns moving the bad pieces out of the way so the good pieces can fight. The pawn is a shitshow of clumsy balance changes. Stalemate is a wildly stupid concept. The early game is slow and boring. That’s not it!

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Concepts Game Design Game Designer Tile 100

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. I’ve listened to so many designers describe how through play-testing, a game came out dramatically different then their initial concept because the new version was more fun. Smash Bros.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Many superhero blockbusters use a combination of these two techniques to achieve the perfect balance between naturalness (as much as it is possible in movies about superhumans) and fantasy. It could be a tense chase scene from Nicholas Winding Refn's neo-noir thriller or a dynamic fight scene from "Atomic Blonde" (2017).

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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. The first iteration simply averaged together the stats of all the input items.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. Some concepts: More enemies could show up? I’ve already reused a slightly altered version of this in the new DSF maps, and balance-wise don’t find it suitable for Garrisons anyway.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. I think this is a really bold move on the developer's part and also the most surprising feature that I've seen in a fighting game in years. But really, who cares.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. We love the concept. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can. And despite Net Fishing!

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art. Carmen Palade – Animation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. When it comes to heroes Puzzle Breakers has the same concept as E&P. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance).

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!)

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Sirlin

MAY 24, 2019

The problem is not the concept of this arc, but rather the critical moment when she actually becomes the villain. So she gains more and more power, and fights for good, and she gets it. To explain why the alternative is interesting, there’s two concepts we should think about. In Lord of the Rings, evil is an abstract concept.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Most innovative battle passes in mobile games For those less familiar with the concept of a battle pass, this is a season-based monetization mechanic in which players can obtain rewards by progressing through different thresholds. Battle pass feature popularity trend in US iOS mobile games 2018-2023 (source: GameRefinery Platform).

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

There's a delicate balance in Codex between rushing down and teching up. Soon enough, units and heroes get big enough to overcome those bonuses and crush a weak defender if they don't start putting up a fight. Same goes for the scavenger, it's the same concept really.

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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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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

The weapons-as-tiles concept made positioning and movement interesting enough to me – and I ended up doubling down on that with how weapons worked (see Healthbars). ” The Gun only worked as part of cleverly pre-planned designs, which was fundamentally fighting the reactive-design goal I was going for, so I scrapped it and rethunk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important. That also means it is the strongest lever in Sky Mavis’ hand to balance the SLP economy during times of token inflation / deflation. Of course, given the project’s meteoric ascent, the team has now grown to 80 employees.

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Mechanics Games Balance Game Design 52

Game Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ma’ah’s own instincts prove correct when he enters the bridge to find Dorg and Togg in a fight to the death. Dorg contends that he seeks to upset the balance of power in order to secure Klingon superiority in the quadrant, but Ma’ah argues that using the Pakleds to fight their battles is dishonorable. Dorg reacts badly.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. but to me what saves the film is more the Brexit overtones, which adds a more complex layer of xenophobia to the gay cowboy genre.

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