PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Getting ‘the feel’ right Aesir Interactive , the developer behind Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori, is based in Munich, Germany, and consists of over 105 people working on multiple projects simultaneously. Aligning vision, scope, and budget is a crucial and often challenging part of the development process. “In

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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. If you want verticality, you should plan stairs for it, and give enough space to develop the flow there. but sadly that wasn't enough to rescue its tainted reputation.

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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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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

He got the idea after playing Factorio for hundreds of hours, but in the six years of development that followed, Ben Ryding came up with a delightful twist on the genre. Pretty impressive for a largely solo-developed game. “At The primary obstacle is just getting people up to speed on the code base and development practices.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. Balancing Levers The idea of “post-balance” from this article’s title doesn’t mean no balance.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

White Star Studio, a small and ambitious game development studio based in Shenzen, China, has captured the essence of ancient China in their game Thriving City. But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. The team of White Star Studios closely monitored the results of early playtest sessions.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

The sheer confidence of steering clear of the beaten track and creating something truly original, comes from experience gained outside the world of video game development. Development is paid for by a successful Kickstarter campaign and publisher Fellow Traveller. It also means that they have to be flexible, according to Anthony.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

White Star Studio, a small and ambitious game development studio based in Shenzen, China, has captured the essence of ancient China in their game Thriving City. But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. The team of White Star Studios closely monitored the results of early playtest sessions.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 21, 2024

’ Through our discussion, I gained a profound appreciation for the delicate balance required to honor the original’s spirit while introducing innovative gameplay mechanics that captivate a new generation of gamers. This balance was achieved through a combination of careful planning and creative experimentation. .”

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

Boogaard’s passion for climbing led them to develop an elaborate climbing system that closely resembled the real-life experience. 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.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 29, 2021

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Finding the balance is difficult, and I think many creatives lean too much into the former category. Now look, some parts of game design – like playtesting or accessibility testing – can be tedious. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But going through 3 years of development by himself has made him realize that solo is not really for him. “I Why did you become a solo developer? “I I became a solo developer 3 years ago after losing my job just before the pandemic hit. “I I became a solo developer 3 years ago after losing my job just before the pandemic hit.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I am the developer of The Bears and The Bees and Cover Your Kingdom , published by Grandpa Beck’s games. Let’s be honest though – as any developer knows, even your friends and family won’t buy your game unless it’s truly entertaining.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. It comes with challenges like tight deadlines, production obstacles, publisher pressures, and long work hours, which are just a glimpse of every developer’s hurdles. Many newbies ask the question, what are the stages of game development ?

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1. Objectives, triggers, gates, and game objects are the most common visual scripting examples that allow video game developers to create dynamic interactions between the player, NPCs, and the environment. Looking for experts in game logic and development?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

In 2022, a life-threatening incident could have derailed his dreams, but his passion for expressing his creativity through game development fueled his recovery, leaving his physicians in awe. It’s been a struggle balancing my master’s with all the business stuff, especially now that we were in these accelerators,” he says.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting started with your first NFT game development venture can be interesting. But is the NFT game development market worth entering? So, yes – NFT game development is worth it. And how do you start your first NFT game development project? Why is NFT Game Development Becoming So Popular? billion by 2028.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. What's the balance? Again, what's the balance here?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Here at PreMortem.Games, we have great admiration for developers who tackle the entire game development cycle on their own. Because, lets be honest, creating games is hard and it takes a special kind of developer to choose the solo path. This game represents me as a developer, he says.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s taken a LOT of development to get the game here; early on we had four or five phases. I think all that development is paying off, and now we have a good 4 or 5 months to get some fine tuning / balance stuff right, which feels pretty good to me.

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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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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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! Let’s have a look at a production pipeline for a game studio would look like with Flaneer: As you can see in this diagram, Flaneer offers dedicated playtest stations to be shared to thousands of users.

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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. Peak Games boss Inonu said that Apple should help developers more by clarifying its privacy policies further and that Google’s approach seemed to be better thought out.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

Christina has given this game such a life, and I’ve long felt, since early in the development, that while the core mechanism is the “brain” of Spellstorm, the characters are the heart of the game. This has been made possible via the master of light and color and charm that is my amazing artist, Christina Zhong.

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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. It was perhaps the biggest gamble the developers took with the game, and I'm not entirely sure if it has paid off for them.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. However, once the game attracts more players, we may want to modify our matchmaking to provide our players with a more balanced and fun play experience. Deployment.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

Working under the name of MystiveDev the Mojsovski-brothers actively include the player community in almost every aspect of development. Compelling gameplay loop Balancing the creation of assets, the Mojsovski brothers share that the assets are a mix of marketplace acquisitions and in-house development. “I say it’s 50/50.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

“We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Keeping things vague and mysterious not only adds to the atmosphere of the game, but gives us space to adapt and build on top of things later in development.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

“We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Keeping things vague and mysterious not only adds to the atmosphere of the game, but gives us space to adapt and build on top of things later in development.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sarah: It was also in 2013 that we met Ben and were playtesters for his game Tower , which he launched on Kickstarter early in 2014.

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Tom Francis

MAY 27, 2023

Board setup is random with some attempt at balance, plus a balancing rule: One player chooses which corner to start in, then the other player takes the first turn. The Dark Horse also lets you trample (move options may be used as attacks), the Pale Horse is more nimble (move to any unoccupied space in range 2).

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But for you, if it’s too much work to develop further, then remove it. Playtesting is crucial at this point. If you’re not careful with how you develop your VR game, you can make your players physically sick. A lot of developers go in thinking they’re the same. Otherwise, you’ll break the immersive experience.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. Moving from full-on development to showcasing your game is a huge shift. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. I’m pretty sure we’ll be doing some more playtests in the near future. Yeah… no luck. Teaching is in order. How many levels?

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In contrast, Jane Jacobs challenged this idea with proposals for mixed-use development which reflected how cities traditionally grew without central planning. However, after playtesting, Hudson realized that his game’s meaning was the exact opposite from what he wanted: My game was telling players: You can’t have it all.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

He was able to communicate with them, learn about them, and even develop some of his own technology based on theirs. They are now able to exist in our time, which shifts the balance of power in the realm significantly. Geiger is the link between our timeline and theirs, so the Vortoss call him their emissary.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

History Most people in the western hemisphere may not be familiar with Call of Duty: Online (CoDO), a project kicked off in 2010 and announced in 2012 as a partnership between Activision and Tencent, with Activision in charge of development and Tencent as the Chinese publisher of record.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Early in development, I realized that the game would be best if I could fit the experience into a 30-60 minute time frame.

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