iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

While 3D dominates modern game development, 2.5D This technique isnt just a nostalgic throwback; its a strategic design choice that allows developers to craft visually striking, performance-efficient, and highly engaging experiences. From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D merges the best of both worlds.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In 2017, Valve quietly removed Aztec from the current CS:GO / CS2 mapcycle, and it has since been permanently replaced by its more balanced modern successor Ancient. They are still key areas for gameplay with major fights. If you want verticality, you should plan stairs for it, and give enough space to develop the flow there.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” ” Rules are really tricky to do right because you have to serve two purposes: balance the game and communicate clearly. .”

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You and all the other players in the game play as Spirits who fight off the Invaders – basically, people who want to colonize your island. Balanced asymmetry leads to greater variety. There’s a lot we can learn from it!

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Force players to balance tactics and strategy. Pandemic forces you to balance tactics and strategy. Just for clarity: I’m covering the original Pandemic , not the legacy version. Photo taken by Jana Reifegerste and posted on Flickr.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. Seem like a monster to balance? Clearly, they’re doing something right here. So what exactly is Root ? Really enjoyed.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Even established teams with proven track records, developing games like THE FINALS, XDefiant, and Spectre Divide, all have quickly faded away weeks after launch. New Entrants are Struggling to Break-In While elder games have been fighting over a stagnant TAM of players, new entrants have struggled to gain traction into the market.

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Raph Koster

JUNE 28, 2024

It has in it all the lessons of all these decades of online game development — and it looks forward, not back, to reinvent what an online world can be. The Servitors fight off the tentacled spores of the hivemind Cornucopia that infects worlds. Combat isn’t balanced. The graphics need a lot of work.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In season four’s ninth episode “The Inner Fight,” Mariner makes explicit that her self-sabotage stems from her fear that she’ll become a general who sends young people out to die like Picard was for Sito. Yes, yes, we all know what they’re spoofing off of with the title, “The Inner Fight.”

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You play as members of the CDC fighting four pandemics, each of which are constantly threatening to wipe whole metropolitan areas off the map. That alone is enough to make it special, but it’s no one-trick pony. Pandemic is a team sport.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I think we, as board game developers, can learn a lot from this game. In 2009, this rough, glitchy, blocky game was released to the public.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. This balance opens the game up to several strategies as to how to play the game. After four months TFT has $.43

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Good board game developers need to know when to drop mechanics and when to refine them. My experiences with developing Highways & Byways this week have made me want to talk about this. Click here.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. Tower of Fantasy also has a balanced PvP mode, Apex League, with a seasonal ranking system and rewards for the best player. As a typical MMORPG feature, players can also challenge others for an open-world fight.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 16, 2015

@SirlinGames www.facebook.com/SirlinGames New and revised characters for the popular fighting card game round out cast to 20 available characters throughout 2015. Yomi simulates the mind games and other strategic choices found in video fighting games without requiring that players have the dexterity required to master those games.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I'm a nobody on the outside, looking at a giant development monolith and trying to figure out how this game could possibly have ended up where it did. As a result, a lot of the design seems like it was put into the game to defend itself from the work of other developers. That fight really stomped me." "Do It's an OK game.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

As in, it says that developers are ALLOWED to do a certain thing, not that they HAVE to do it. Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Balancing One Game Is Hard. Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. Some glaring balance issues.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Striking the right balance between revenue generation and player experience is essential. Let’s take a look at the various monetization approaches developers can take and the pros and cons associated with each. Based on the feedback for the content at launch developers can tweak their content pipeline for a broader appeal.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

You can get an accurate prediction on customer churn without having to hire an entire data science team or take precious time away from your game developers. This presents a balanced dataset which is crucial when building machine learning models because it helps ensure the model works well and prevents bias. Enter: SageMaker Canvas!

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. Basically, developers would be charged money per game install, no matter where that came from. Major developers announce they hate Unity. (I That are negative. What about demos? Or GamePass?

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Filmustage

JULY 31, 2023

Francis Ford Coppola's " The Godfather" (1972) is an exquisite example of how a narrative with a balanced plot structure , a thought-provoking theme , an engaging genre , an intense climax , and a satisfying resolution can keep audiences on the edge of their seats. ? Character development and dialogue ? Brad Pitt in Fight Club (1999).

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s hardly surprising that so many developers have jumped on the bandwagon, as battle passes have a wide range of benefits and can be introduced into almost any genre. But with so many different examples of battle passes on the market these days, developers have had to get increasingly experimental to build on their past successes.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But, as I talked about above, it’s a new KIND of deckbuilder, in a bunch of ways: Eight asymmetric, fighting game style characters with their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. It’s taken a LOT of development to get the game here; early on we had four or five phases. It’s a deckbuilder!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. Fighting Games. Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. The Potemkin model on the left is a development shot of what he looks like without any shaders. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. This also goes to show how much the developer cared about accessibility.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Last month , Finnish game developer and publisher Tower Pop announced a $2.1 But Omega Royale, which began development three years ago, will be a ten-player fight to the death, in which players individually take on waves of enemies, but must also send baddy boosts against human players. Let’s take a look.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. Due to these shared characteristics, while cutting across slot types, it makes sense to work on their design as a group--they’re balanced against one another as much as they are against other parts. Alien Artifacts.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

How long has Baldur’s Gate 3 been in development? Baldur’s Gate 3 has been in development for six years. Although the people from Larian claim they did everything possible to deliver the game in the given timeframe weeks before the release, the situation during most of development was different.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 2, 2023

Picard keeps after Riker to stand and fight even after the Shrike reveals that devastating piece of technology. This new Worf has, in his own words, been working on himself, and he has developed a distinctly Klingon version of tranquility. In this, Picard’s emotions appear to have superseded his more rational mind.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It will probably be easier to tell you how I got my first gig and how things have developed from there. CG Spectrum also has dedicated career development services which helped me with my CV and interview questions. What good would that be in a fight? So learning this balance was a big thing for me. Beowulf by Oliver.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. As a Lead Designer for LEGENDARY I invested a lot of time on creating and balancing our first few hundred heroes. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership. Fighting Existential Dread.

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Game Industry News

JULY 31, 2021

Their leader, Shel-La, explains to Sisko that the Ennis are imprisoned on this nameless moon, fighting an unending war with the Nol-Ennis as part of a punishment for being unable to come to a peace. When Shel-La revives, Kira argues with him about setting defensive perimeters and fighting his war smarter. Immortality is part of that.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. Developers do that so that players get a little “check box” feeling, that they have checked another Location off of the List Of Locations, and gotten that much closer to 100%-ing the game.

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