iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Concept and Design Reviews Before we start coding, it’s important to review the concept and design carefully. Our experienced testers work closely with game designers and developers to examine every part of the game’s concept, mechanics, and user interface. Why is pre-production testing important?

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Location scouts should start by tapping into their networks and local connections. Local theater groups and film schools are a great way to get committed performers facing low-budget filmmaking challenges. Set dressing and wardrobe needs become affordable through local thrift stores, garage sales, and online marketplaces.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

With AI Workbench, developers and data scientists have the flexibility to start an AI or ML project locally on a PC or workstation and then migrate it anywhere. Install AI Workbench quickly in two ways: click-through install using the desktop app on local systems or command-line install on remote systems.

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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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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

A key concept in addressing this question is the idea of the skill chain , as articulated in Characteristics of Games , by Elias et al. How to avoid the trap of a local maximum in solution space? Evidence of depth – the skill chain. So what exactly are these features? Can we get more precise about them?

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We checked out a new local game store where we discovered Dominion. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area. Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. We started designing games together.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. In the game, you run your own farm, create your own products, and sell to the local community through your own small business. 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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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

You can play single-character matches or team battles, just like in local play. And even in the current days of e-sports, tournaments obviously do not run on this 50-50 concept. No, and in fact the concept of seeding exists specifically to prevent that from happening. Notice that this isn’t just about poorly balanced games.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. The game says you must kill her first, like this, always -- and if she always dies so early, that means her concept doesn't get to interact with anyone else. You're trading health for ammo / convenience.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Every few years I think about the concept again, and it finds its way into my ongoing notes in yet another location in some slightly-altered form or alongside some other content idea, begging to be implemented. Spectating a dangerous game of hot grenade with the local opposing Demo squads.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) With backtracking, developers have the unfortunate task of addressing “stair dancing,” or repeatedly using stairs as an easy escape option, even as part of localized combat tactics. Do enemies follow through stairs?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Back in 2012, John Mix Meyer wrote "Women aren’t vending machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out" to critique proto-PUA concepts like the friendzone. It already feels so fraught to me.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Sound Design Intern (Remote!) I’ll do a second round of internship opportunities once they post, along with Ubisoft and any others I missed.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And that's where Romero took his basic concept from. So they made a very cheap short film called “Within The Woods” , which the young filmmakers showed to local businessmen in hopes of securing financing. In fact, he stuck to a movie called “The Last Man on Earth” (1964). However, as it turns out, it does not matter.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

"Cruising Labyrinth," Andreas Angelidakis Lindell was responding to a specific social context: the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic that utterly devastated the gay male community in New York City, especially the local sex clubs and bathhouses. Was there a way to preserve public sexuality while also encouraging safer sex practices?

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