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. Making money writing helps the self-esteem. 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.

Fighting 87

Fighting Baking Writing Balance 87

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

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.

Horror 78

Horror Fighting Game Design Game Designer 78

The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I don't want to write a review. 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.

Fighting 95

Fighting Games Balance Writing 95

Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Great art, great music, good writing. I was going to write “too long”, but there is no correct length for an RPG. Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. It’s this and Octopath Traveler 2 I’m most excited to play next. Bad Pacing.

Fighting 59

Fighting Fantasy Balance Software 59

Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

It gives you a chance to strategize, interact with your opponents, and write your destiny. 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.

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Mechanics Dev Game Developer Game Development 130

The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Most people who want to write a video game need to buy a piece of software called a Game Engine. “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?" Here is another summary. I don't know if it's a good summary. I didn't read it.) The basics: 1.

Software 92

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

Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been working extremely hard this year on Spellstorm (among other projects) – so much so that I sort of forgot to write something about it here on my blog, I’ve realized! I did write this piece over at its BoardGameGeek page, so do check that out to begin with, if you haven’t already: [link].

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Playtesting Writing Graphics Fighting 52

AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

SageMaker Canvas provides customers with a visual point-and-click interface that allows you to build models and generate accurate ML predictions on your own—without requiring any ML experience or having to write a single line of code. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model. Enter: SageMaker Canvas!

Code 78

Code Data Build Balance 78

The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

But since I can't resist writing about the thing, I want to start with the key question: Why do people love these games so much, despite the sadism. If said community doesn't form to write online guides and wikis, all you have is an incomprehensible game that scares players off forever. They write beloved hits, one after another.

Fighting 52

Fighting Software Writing Game Design 52

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. Categorical Approach. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

Balance 52

Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. Not just their stats and skills, but also in careful naming and writing of interconnected backstories that I knew few players would even read. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership.

Asset 52

Asset Games Fighting Mobile 52

Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I thought the writing was good (great, for a videogame) but the actual combat I found to be very annoying; real time button mashy combat where the enemies have gigantic health bars resulted in my hand literally aching after beating one boss. The Good The writing starts off incredible. The opening cutscene literally made me cry.

Writing 52

Writing Fantasy Fighting Cutscenes 52

Filmustage

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Whether you do or don't write action scenes regularly, bringing dynamic movement to life on the page proves challenging for many writers. From heart-melting heroics to side-splitting intensity, mastering action writing requires more than describing physical movements. Bring Your Action Scenes to Life with Filmustage!

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Prop Cinematics Film AI 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Feature Build Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions). Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained.

Data 52

Data Build Point and Click Games 52

Sirlin

MAY 24, 2019

Yeah, me too, and it’s all about the writing. So she gains more and more power, and fights for good, and she gets it. Remember all those letters that Tywin was writing? So in other words, there’s an enormous war so big that the fate of all life hangs in the balance, but all we need to win it is the ability to kill ONE guy.

Games 40

Games Writing Concepts Fighting 40

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. I’ve already reused a slightly altered version of this in the new DSF maps, and balance-wise don’t find it suitable for Garrisons anyway. Failing that (gets blasted in a fight?

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

I used to write about where games went right or wrong, now I actually try fixing their problems and find out if I’m right! ” 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

APRIL 25, 2022

As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards. The metrics and stats balancing in the game work well!

Baking 52

Baking Simulation Build Animation 52

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Sky Mavis was valued at $3B; keep in mind that Sky Mavis owns 21% of the fully diluted AXS token supply, which once fully unlocked will be worth over $7 billion based on prices at the time of this writing. That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important.

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Games Balance Game Design 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Even better, the team has showcased a holistic focus on the game: Masterfully balanced the gameplay with regular nerfs/buffs, refreshing the meta Designed for both elder and new players, often forgotten by mature games Took risks (e.g.,

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mobile Gaming 52

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Writing a video game with a good story is easy! Players will forgive your game for having a story as long as you allow them to ignore it." - Vogel's 2nd Law of Video Game Storytelling I recently wrote a blog post about writing good, clear stories that progress logically and make sense. Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight.

Games 119

Games Fighting Fantasy Writing 119

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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Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics 52

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. but to me what saves the film is more the Brexit overtones, which adds a more complex layer of xenophobia to the gay cowboy genre.

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Pixel Film Art Prototyping 130