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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems. For comparison, that’s a similar seasonal pace as TFT , a more established title with tons of content and higher degree of mastery depth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

We will now go through many aspects of what the game is, but keep in mind that we will be looking at the balancing and pricing for one player account in this piece. The event is balanced to provide easy progression upfront, but it significantly slows down as you approach the end. The last stage requires as much as the first ten stages.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Looking at the numbers, the first soft launch had three phases: April 2023 - Aug 2023: New content and new features (events) Aug 2023 - Dec 2023: Only content updates Dec 2023 - April 2024: No updates This suggests that the game lacked the same uptake and momentum that Royal Match saw.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Previs animator - Previs artists create and block out 3D digital content that helps visualize what a scene, set, or certain actions will look like before it’s filmed, created, or finalized. Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

And given how important content is to the players of these games, this subscription offering naturally became a key revenue driver for CGs. East Side Games doubled down on Trailer Park Boys , showing that a periodically expanding IP based narrative built on well balanced systems can perfectly sustain idle games in the long run.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Some content, I just record and publish. 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. You need the UX to work. If you're a content business, a creative business, then you don't really need tech.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Here are some examples: Common Experience, craft, create, live, season, update, content, schedule, create, design, team, player, UX. We want to see key words for common tasks that those kind of designers have done.

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