PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

We’ll soon be conducting first playtests with the horse-loving target audience to make sure riding controls and animations hold up to scrutiny.” “At the moment, we’re focusing on getting the feeling and controls of the horse riding itself right, which can be quite complex.

Simulation 156

Simulation Open World Games Playtesting 156

PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

There would be an almost infinite amount of awesome content. To strike a balance, the team aimed to automate as much of the body movements as possible while retaining the meaningful choices that players make while climbing. It creates awesome content that is often better than handcrafted.

Indy 104

Indy Dev Studios Playtesting 104

Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Playtesting is crucial at this point. Not only does it help your team manage the workload, but it means you can roll out more content to keep your players engaged later. As a multiplayer PvP (player versus player) game, it’s critical to get the balance right between crewmates and imposters. You may have to get creative.

Dev 91

Dev Playtesting Fantasy Render 91

AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Firstly, you need a minimum internet bandwidth to stream animation content effectively. Secondly, you need an encrypted and performing streaming protocol to protect your content from piracy. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS NICE DCV to let you stream your software in the best conditions, up to 4 screens in 4K!

Animation 59

Animation Animation Render Studios 59

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.

Balance 52

Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging. Balancing creativity with project constraints is tricky. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues. However, there’s still work to be done.

Game Developer 52

Game Developer Game Development Development Games 52

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

Content 52

Content FPS Mobile Mobile 52

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.

Engine 52

Engine Engineering Mechanics Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit.

Games 59

Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. As certain decks become dominant, players can quickly create counter decks to keep the game balanced and interesting.

Feature 95

Feature Mechanics Tile Mobile 95

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I’m going to go ahead and just make this a SPOILER discussion as far as game content goes, so that I can write freely about related mechanics, so maybe don’t read this one if you’re spoiler averse and not familiar with teleporting.

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Concepts Balance Terrain 52

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. This marks its true public release, with finished graphics, gameplay, tuning, more sex, and finally an ending.

Code 100

Code Education Educational Prototyping 100