Deep Dive: Designing a new dwarf race in The Last Spell
Game Developer
JUNE 27, 2024
Introducing a new race in Dwarves of Runenberg meant paying careful attention to balance and putting weight in community feedback.
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Game Developer
JUNE 27, 2024
Introducing a new race in Dwarves of Runenberg meant paying careful attention to balance and putting weight in community feedback.
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Over time, this could also create a race to the bottom, where speed prevails and quality drops, in that world the developers with established brands and IPs start to prevail as the difference in production value shines through and captivates an audience looking for the anti-AI ad. To balance CPIs (now $1.20
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With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. That’s a flaw in a racing game. An outlier can cause serious problems in statistical analyses. “ In English, that means that the more times you do something, the more weird stuff you’ll see.
Deconstructor of Fun
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Deconstructor of Fun
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Economy The core loop is the same, however, the progression balancing (potion outputs) has changed. This makes it easier to balance the campaign and matchmake players for Live Events (Lava Quest, Episode/Level Race, etc). Likely to reduce confusion and keep the UI “clean” or easy to parse.
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Deconstructor of Fun
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Successful games strike a delicate balance by offering a mix of high and low-stakes rewards to keep players engaged consistently. Whether it's a last-one-standing race where only the best can survive or a time-limited challenge to reach a certain number of levels before others, these events always pit you against other players.
Ask a Game Dev
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Deconstructor of Fun
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It's important for the event design not to simply rely on a balance which becomes harder at the end of the event, but instead offer the player a more complex and difficult task based on pre-existing mechanics. So this choice brings this event the needed level of complexity. This way, we can engage the player for longer.
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Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained. The new move disrupted this balance. Rapid and Constant Beats the Race There are many ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game.
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Deconstructor of Fun
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Deconstructor of Fun
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No one was completely happy with how they worked yet, and the balancing of a new card type was proving tricky. Race and Class. Since the cards all had two types, and each race would be confined to only a few classes, new possibilities would open up for existing decks when the class tribal cards showed up in Morningtide.
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