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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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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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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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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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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. Making Balanced & Clear Rules. Rules vs. Rulebooks. 14 Rules for Board Game Rules.

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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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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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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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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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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. but sadly that wasn't enough to rescue its tainted reputation. Most of the slopes here are very clear 22.5

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ? Brad Pitt in Fight Club (1999).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. I think this is a valid thing to care about, but I also think that, like all things, it’s a balancing act, and I think too many games have been falling on the too-conservative part of the spectrum.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Achieving a balanced and regular occurrence of both near-finish and near-fail moments in the game is challenging due to the need for extensive level testing and careful balancing. They hook and monetize players through a well-designed and balanced level cadence.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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. Balancing this with the core gameplay experience is a major challenge but necessary for long-term success.

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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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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 a deckbuilder! There’s been so much trial and error getting everything to be intuitive and feel right.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

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. “Our intention is to ensure that all cards are balanced. It’s like any deck-building game.

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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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Game Errors

JUNE 20, 2023

If you can’t imagine fighting without another person next to you or online, one of the most entertaining games in the genre awaits you right now, a balanced fighter that shows how the series’ evolution should look.

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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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