Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Randomized items tend to be a great feature in combination with permadeath, especially in those games where there isn’t much in the way of challenges outside taking on various enemies with whatever gear the player has at their disposal (i.e. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This deconstruction will cover: The game’s core loop Why having chosen a basic match-3 mechanic was a safe bet What other games have tried The game’s features and to which kinds of players it caters How time-limited offers and events are run successfully. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

A fellow Civ developer once quipped to me that the best feature of the original city screen is that it disappeared almost anywhere you clicked on it.) This part of the system had merit to it; balancing multiple vectors that limit each other is solid game design. I used this opportunity to fix a couple other problems with the design.

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Game Dev Unchained

APRIL 30, 2024

Francisco’s insights into the marketing landscape proved invaluable as they navigated this complex terrain. In discussions at conferences and workshops, he shared his insights with aspiring developers, emphasizing the importance of balancing passion with practicality.

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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. Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). or large (hard to fit the work in?),

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But fear not, for I have scouted the terrain and returned with strategies to bypass this impasse. They often feature tips, lore, and beautiful artwork that enhance the gaming experience. If there’s a checkbox or toggle button, make sure to disable any in-game overlay features.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) If tight enough, a roguelike’s typical food clock or other similar feature pushing the player forward might also serve as a suitable countermechanic, or impose prohibitive costs on abuse/overuse of stashes.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. Could it be that one of these features simply is the property we’re looking for? So what exactly are these features?

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This final release now has gay sex, smoochin', and other important new features. Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. Some of these features are common to video games, and some of them aren't.) It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation. And in this simulation, the player sculpts an invisible landscape and paints flowers.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These offer very little control over direction, although based on their rules if you’re aware of the surrounding terrain you can possibly get a decent idea of where one might send you given your current position. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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