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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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). In playtesting so far this (among other benefits we’ll get to later) is already clearly tempting players who would otherwise always prefer regular branches over infiltrating a Garrison. Generating more paths would likely make Garrisons easier in some regards (unnecessary!),

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These offer very little control over direction, although based on their rules if you’re aware of the surrounding terrain you can possibly get a decent idea of where one might send you given your current position. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors.

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Concepts Balance Terrain 52