Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too. What's the balance?

Art 147

Art Concepts Dev Studios 147

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ll also be writing responses for Will. To give a good example, I suck at writing rules and they don’t really interest me. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. How Ben, Sarah, and Will Got Started.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Games Playtesting Game Design 130

Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

Sending this document along with the latest prototype of your game gives artists a ton of information to work with. I still want to get some more play testing done before I start writing these. Once you’re done writing all this, you’re in good shape. I send that to the artist with a copy of my latest prototype.

Art 100

Art Communications Dev Advertising 100

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. And generally I maintained a pretty healthy work life balance for the most part of it.

Dev 104

Dev Puzzle Prototyping Development 104

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I don’t write any code; instead, I handle data from our games or the market to guide the company’s direction. The team includes 4 founding members ( Goodness Omogbadegun , James Ohia , Ephraim Duvbiama and Ikpeme) and 9 teammates, which allows Ikpeme to balance his full-time job and his role at Dash Studios.

Data 104

Data Studios Animation Animation 104

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. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

Balance 52

Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

The aim of CSG in Godot is for it to be used in level prototyping. Unreal has always offered similar boolean CSG, while Unity has recently acquired ProBuilder (which is a different type of tool, but still aimed at prototyping level geometry). This led me to write a custom one for Godot, with focus exclusively on performance.

Polygon 52

Polygon Mesh Prototyping Art 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

When it comes to what would increase already very high job satisfaction, pay is the primary driver (37%) with interesting projects (17.0%) and better work/life balance (14%%) trailing as the second and third factors. Although I am surprised of pay is so important for increased happiness. But this is why we do surveys.

Games 98

Games Data Balance Writing 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

We are a small team working on our first team project, Lumencraft, which is released as I'm writing this. Since the path of a game developer is rarely straightforward, I ended up as an academic at the university doing PhD in skin cancer research, and as a part of not doing the PhD I started writing my own game engine.

Development 52

Development Shaders Terrain Engine 52

Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

For example, a first for this category is the ability to write a scene synopsis. And the process of working with the script writing, its breakdown , and scheduling can stretch for weeks because of the manual approach to work. From streamlined writing and editing tools to the ability to plan the whole story. and $99.99

Film 52

Film Software Scripting Writing 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. He concluded: “Nothing lasts forever – growth doesn’t last forever, but neither does decline.

Games 59

Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated). Unlike the rest of my writing on Old World ’s design, I’m not sure I can quite articulate why 1UPT worked better than the stacking system I had implemented.

Tile 40

Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 40

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility. They turn the vision of game designers into a functional reality, writing the code that governs how a game behaves. Others are writers and/or world directors who focus on player experience.

Film 52

Film Animation Animation Concepts 52

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. They get to a prototype level. And basically, it's a storytelling game where you basically write a story with the A.I. I need to write that piece of code.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engineering Engine 52

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated.

Pixel 130

Pixel Film Art Prototyping 130

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Similar to Today’s: Current level setup (clear objectives in X moves or less) Mode: Balance Description: Collect 2 colors of gems roughly at the same pace. Developers must find the harmonious balance between ‘too easy’ and ‘pure frustration’. No similar exists today Mode: Avalanche Description: Gems fall randomly to fill the board.

Puzzle 69

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch.

Code 100

Code Education Educational Prototyping 100