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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Horror Fighting Game Designer Game Design 78

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.

Fighting 98

Fighting Writing Puzzle Terrain 98

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. Subscribe now Our newest indie role-playing epic, Geneforge 2 - Infestation , is now out! I still have a pile of my old issues, and they reliably make fun reading. How do you make good adventures?

Fighting 87

Fighting Baking Writing Balance 87

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.

Fighting 95

Fighting Games Balance Writing 95

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.”

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Dev Development Feature Prototyping 118

The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“My Development Life Is Crap From Wall Too Wall, I Have No Time, and Now I Have To Look At Incomprehensible Corporate Balance Sheets Too?" Generally, unless you write a hit and get super-rich, the best thing you can do is find a solution that is tolerable and lets you fight another day. Things are better now. Hey, don't blame me.

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Software Engine Engineering Game Engine 92

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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Balance Fighting Art Software 52

Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It's probably not worth the hassle for a solo indie. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Loot RPGs need to carefully balance the player dilemma of "this would be useful" vs. "this is better to sell" and this tips that balance too much toward the latter. Sit and listen.

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Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain 130

Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Alex and Ovi receiving the Indie Prize at Dev-Play. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h.

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Point and Click Dev Demo Playtesting 52

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. Originally launched back in 2019, Dicey Dungeons was an immediate hit indie game. Which is a difficult balance to strike. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. star review on the Google Play Store.

Mobile Gaming 98

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 98

Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

I’ve also been playing a lot of XCOM 2 lately, and dreaming up my own indie equivalent to solve its clarity problems. ” The Gun only worked as part of cleverly pre-planned designs, which was fundamentally fighting the reactive-design goal I was going for, so I scrapped it and rethunk.

Tile 52

Tile Games Build Fighting 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019. Ad revenues not included.

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Mechanics Platformer Studios Data 52

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer. Indy's side quest to find the ark's location led to a really exciting scene with snakes. The journeys are where the action takes place: the fights, the sneaking.

Games 119

Games Fighting Fantasy Writing 119

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 when I was making the original prototype, there were also two other gay cowboy things on my mind: Orville Peck's hit single "Dead of Night" and the gay indie romance film God's Own Country. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Like Brokeback, it's a story about young unhappy unsuccessful queer men.

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