Balance Indy Playtesting 
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players cant lift out of the levels. To make sure all upgrades and weapons are properly balanced, Game Swing does playtests throughout development. Yes, I would say balancing is the hardest part.
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Still, Nowell strives to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Team up It was right at the beginning of the pandemic, in early 2020, when Austrian indie dev Dominik Hackl started working on Summit , a 2D mountain-climbing Metroidvania. No amount of playtesting is ever enough, he says. I want to work smart, not hard.
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PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Polish indie studio Eleven Puzzles has been making a name for themselves as the creators of some fine cooperative puzzle games, like Unsolved Case and Unboxing the Cryptic Killer. “The balancing of the game between two players,” Olczyk explains. “Playtesting is key. ” The solution?
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 15, 2024
In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players can’t lift out of the levels. To make sure all upgrades and weapons are properly balanced, Game Swing does playtests throughout development. “We Yes, I would say balancing is the hardest part.”
PreMortem.Games
MAY 19, 2023
To strike a balance, the team aimed to automate as much of the body movements as possible while retaining the meaningful choices that players make while climbing. But we probed and playtested, and we pulled through without changing course to a climbing-inspired arcade game”, says Boogaard. Release date for New Heights is July 2023.
PreMortem.Games
JULY 1, 2024
Now, with the follow-up, Nirvana Noir , the New York-based indie studio Feral Cat Den is crafting audio-visual poetry in motion. Previous to making their own indie games, the studio’s background was in advertising and product design. Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 30, 2023
The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason.
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