Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

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. The trick, of course, is to make sure all varying powers are definitely distinct while remaining balanced. Lightning’s Swift Strike.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2019

Force players to balance tactics and strategy. Pandemic forces you to balance tactics and strategy. If you are constantly running around and fighting disease, especially if that entails direct or charter flights, it will be much harder to reach a research station and find a cure to each disease. Oh, and you will get punished.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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? As you scroll, you notice people write reviews in a way that implies the balanced nature of the asymmetrical design is surprising. So what exactly is Root ? Really enjoyed.”

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Raph Koster

JUNE 28, 2024

The Servitors fight off the tentacled spores of the hivemind Cornucopia that infects worlds. Combat isn’t balanced. They’re long gone now — and we should probably be pretty terrified of whatever chased ’em off. It’s time to move from stealth to bringing the community along on the journey.

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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. Two giant fans of Team Fight Tactics.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game follows the template of many open-world RPGs, with players invited to freely explore, climb, glide, and fight their way through the vast region of Teyvat as they take on various quests and activities. Genshin Impact’s turn-based TCG minigame, Genius Invocation.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

Faction fleet battles are larger, with each side sending more ships to the fight. Help to keep frame rates smooth during bigger fleet fights with carrier builds. Ship re-balancing: The goal is to make lighter ships more viable longer towards the mid & late-game, by improving firepower. Prepare for epic battles!

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 12, 2023

As you might expect, numerical balance values like 10% higher stun duration, 8% less HP, or an extra 5% critical hit rate are often built to be easy to change because we expect to have a lot of things in the game that can change them. Fighting games, for example, tend to make animation changes regularly because of the way they are built.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My “The first four years were almost absolute happiness. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. And of course, balancing everything like coding, art, marketing, and playtesting can be exhausting.

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Sirlin

MAY 4, 2015

Read on for all the latest updates in this version of Yomi, or check out this post on Designing Yomi to learn more about the game itself or this post about Game Balance and Yomi to see what goes into balancing hundreds of matchups. Yomi is a fighting game in card form and it's the competitive card game you should be playing.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

The Tomb of Horrors was an early attempt to solve a very difficult problem: How to balance a turn-based RPG once characters get very powerful. You can always make the numbers bigger, sure, but that's boring and leads to eternal fights. Looking at it, you can tell there's not going to be a lot of fighting. Pwned, n00b.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

A Few Final Comments When a computer RPG has a very complex terrain system with lots of elevations, it becomes tempting to have every fight be complex with a spread of enemies at all sorts of different heights. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Also, casting fireball is fun. Nicely done.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

This makes it ideal for fighting games, Metroidvanias, and RPGs. Fighting Games: Clarity & Competitive Balance Street Fighter IV and Guilty Gear Strive use 3D character models but restrict movement to a 2D plane, ensuring precise hitboxes and predictable spacing. Artistic Flexibility : Unlike full 3D, 2.5D

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

You play as members of the CDC fighting four pandemics, each of which are constantly threatening to wipe whole metropolitan areas off the map. There’s a lot of factors to balance, and communicating with your team for long enough to coordinate actions is critical. That alone is enough to make it special, but it’s no one-trick pony.

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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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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. I think there’s a few takeaways: To give people a sense of autonomy, balance your game to where multiple strategies are viable ways of winning. Minecraft and its unexpected rise were like something out of a movie.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 29, 2024

How do we do game balance? The Oracle, forever, sucks in a fight, but it is 100% able to predict that it will suck in a fight. I still have a pile of my old issues, and they reliably make fun reading. At the time, tabletop RPGs were very much in their infancy. Everyone was trying to figure out how to make them work.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In Genshin Impact, players need to invite the other player to their game or vice versa, whereas in Tower of Fantasy, players can meet other players in the shared open-world, where they can intuitively interact with them and invite them for open-world exploration and fighting. This makes interacting with players much easier.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Though you might as well wait until next week because there will be a balance update within a week. Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Last and certainly not least, I plan to post a new playable version of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep fighting game (for the $25+ patrons).

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight. These are perfectly balanced.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, doing this for one to eight players (or, as it stands now in WoW anywhere from 10 to 30) means eight balancing passes for every encounter. while others like specific attacks and cooldowns often require more careful balancing. That's far too much work to do in any reasonable amount of time.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2024

They're similar to, for example, randomly-determined critical hits that deal additional damage or dizzying your opponent in fighting games. ALT COD's Killstreak rewards are exciting, memorable, and (generally) difficult to obtain. Getting killed by a drone rocket or dogs also isn't that different from getting shot in the head.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. Too “balanced” Strategy games can’t really be too balanced, but RPGs easily can, and most that come out these days, are. In the strategy game realm, you solve this by having enough complexity.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 22, 2024

To strike the perfect balance you can use the following scheduling strategies: The Art of Prioritization ? With Tight Timeline Production deadlines, creators face balancing Film Art and logistics realities of low-budget movie making. Fight for the moments that make your heart sing, the shots that capture your artistic vision.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

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. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help. No matter who you are, Elden Ring is balanced to be unsatisfying.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Melee – a unique fighting game that got a new lease on life as people exploited glitches and created a new form of completion. In a game I co-designed with Matt Greenleaf, which is currently unpublished, I had come up with a mechanic that was whenever a player made a move, the game state would either go to imbalance or balance.

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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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OPM Jobs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

How to Fight Through Job Search Anxiety Maintaining a positive mindset throughout your job search journey is pivotal. Balance is key! The waiting can be prolonged, and you may not even know how long you should expect to wait. Some employers may not even get back to you at all. It’s nerve-wracking and can trigger feelings of self-doubt.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 23, 2015

You're also invited to give feedback on Patreon about balance issues. That said, it won't make sense to make balance claims right off the bat. All the money goes to paying for artists on Codex and also for artists and programmers on the Fantasy Strike fighting game.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

It upset the whole drafting balance. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP. That meant your opponents could box you in with traffic, which made the more connected northeast more attractive.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.” Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

This presents a balanced dataset which is crucial when building machine learning models because it helps ensure the model works well and prevents bias. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model. Name the file game-features-balanced. Uncheck all columns selected in game-features-balanced.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Striking the right balance between revenue generation and player experience is essential. Cons: Potential for P2W (Pay-to-Win): If not balanced carefully, this can lead to a pay-to-win dynamic, where players who spend more have an unfair advantage. But what is the ideal way to monetize a game, if there is one?

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