PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One of the most eye-catching features of Thriving City is its distinctive visual style. But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. The team of White Star Studios closely monitored the results of early playtest sessions. The inspiration comes from traditional Chinese paintings.”

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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. ” “First impressions are very important, so when playtesting we wanted to see how long it took players to understand how the minigame worked”, he continues.

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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. ” “First impressions are very important, so when playtesting we wanted to see how long it took players to understand how the minigame worked”, he continues.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

One of the most eye-catching features of Thriving City is its distinctive visual style. But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. The team of White Star Studios closely monitored the results of early playtest sessions. The inspiration comes from traditional Chinese paintings.”

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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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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with. This time around we’re putting a lot more time and resources into playtesting and catching problems early.” We felt awful whenever we got a bug report and it was exhausting to fix them all.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 21, 2024

“Reimagining a classic like ‘Yars Rising’ isn’t just about updating graphics or adding new features. Capturing the Essence of ‘Yars Rising’ “Reimagining a classic like ‘Yars Rising’ isn’t just about updating graphics or adding new features,” James explained.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Playtesting is crucial at this point. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. You may have to get creative.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

After several months of brainstorming and playtesting, we settled on the mechanics of Cover Your Kingdom. This also increased emotional response and provided some balancing mechanisms that prevented the formation of massive piles. We added, balanced, and optimized new mechanics one by one. Action Cards. Two Actions Per Turn.

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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.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. 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. Testing Testing is like quality control.

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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! This is probably the most loved feature by Flaneer users. As an example, Flaneer leverages: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to give you access to the best GPU available. Why is it cool?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Upon establishing your audience, brainstorm unique features and game mechanics. Test Your Game and Deploy Performing thorough playtesting is crucial in NFT game development. Consider testing the game mechanics, overall balance, and user interactions to ensure a seamless experience for players.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. The biggest feature request by far, we really want to add cooperative multiplayer into the mix and test it out as soon as possible. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. I’m pretty sure we’ll be doing some more playtests in the near future.

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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. Creating a construct and modifying one are two rather different processes. Construct Creation.

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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. Marvel Snap starts with a simple intro sequence featuring Nick Fury and Doctor Doom battling each other with you controlling Nick Fury.

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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. Then, think about play diversity, mastery, depth and social features that make the game even stickier. There are more ‘launch-specific experiments’ features to come, too.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. Sample Garrison interior layout (major features labeled), under the old system first introduced in 2015. This always felt like a kind of side project though, one which could be small (doesn’t live up to the potential?)

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It was not uncommon to assume that a better designed map or finely balanced mode that took three times as long as competition would eventually win the day. while competition would ship 3x the features and find success with at least some of them. Succeeding in China with a western Product Local content is king… or is it?

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

When it came time to implement this feature last month, I discovered both sets of notes and realized they were describing two somewhat different systems! Then more recently while away from those notes, and having forgotten many of the details, I jotted down a few more notes on the subject.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Here I take direct inspiration from some of my peers featured in the Cruising Pavilion: architect John Lindell 's "social structure" sculptures and artist Andreas Angelidakis 's "Cruising Labyrinth" (pictured below). My modern PDF edition features modern typography, her last letters, and some historical context and footnotes.

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