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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

Radiator Blog

This isn't a big apocalyptic video game betrayal cutscene where a villain reveals himself and destroys a castle, instead it's a smaller deeper betrayal that instantly brought me back to being a teenager. After all, how many games offer you a "suffering musician" build? You talk but they don't listen. Fine, be that way, see if I care!"

Indy 130
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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance. The rough cutscene). The static lighting and shadow rendering are excellent.

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Giving up on the “1P Strategy Game”

Keith Burgun

In the case of Auro , the game originally had a full Story Mode with a final boss and cutscenes and everything – but we deleted it at a certain point because we really wanted to focus the attention on the replayable ranked play mode (and a few other reasons). In any case, when humans get involved, they build culture.

Games 52
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The three most important qualities in an RPG

Keith Burgun

You don’t have to build a fully functioning economy or put something behind every single door, or whatever. Here’s a handful of good examples: Final Fantasy VII : you’re part of a terrorist organization that is doing a bombing mission to try and fight back against an evil empire.

Fantasy 52
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new Quake map: The Close And Holy Darkness

Radiator Blog

If you want to do anything more technically advanced than static monster placement in vanilla Quake, you basically have two options: (1) build a "monster closet" and open the door to start a fight, (2) build an inaccessible room filled with inactive teleporters, and trigger the teleporters to spawn-in monsters.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Radiator Blog

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.