The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Video games function best as power fantasies. Not all games are power fantasies, and not all gamers want that. What Do We Mean By "Power Fantasy"? Power Fantasy" is usually used as a pejorative term. In other words, all video games take place in Fantasy. (In They are power fantasies. Art is a slippery thing.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While there certainly are games which feature India as a setting, both from Indian studios and international companies, they tend to focus on fantasy or mythical aspects of the nation. So we had to build all of that on our own. Three Oscars Shalin Shodhan is no stranger to building immersive worlds.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 21, 2024

He left in 2014, and has since held numerous senior roles at Unity, before joining Crytek co-founder Cevat Yerli to build an engine for distributed development (RealityOS). Now he's back at IO as the firm's chief technology officer, and he's walked into a very different company.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game. As the name suggests, Everdell has a fantasy setting, and is indeed named for a charming valley within the game’s world. Cute fantasy themes go a long way. I don’t know what exactly it is about fantasy themes, but board gamers love them.

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

“We’re trying to make it really easy for anyone to be able to build content that’s a lot more user friendly and accessible than the applications that exist today,” says Pinnock. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.” You can just build.”

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Sirlin

APRIL 1, 2015

The third Fantasy Strike Expo will take place June 5th-7th 2015 near the San Francisco airport. It's a tournament series and casual play event showcasing the Fantasy Strike tabletop games. Come compete, watch, and make new friends with other Fantasy Strikers. Discuss Fantasy Strike Expo on the forums. Announcement!

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention. Buildings in the Outpost act as locations for special Brief Encounters.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 1, 2023

The studio's chief technical officer and co-founder, Lauren Frazier, sits down with GamesIndustry.biz to explain how the Final Fantasy XIV-inspired RPG found a home on different headsets and became a PlayStation VR 2 launch title. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I function well like that.”

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

My team and I have been working on Fantasy Strike for almost a year and half now. Here's our Patreon, where you can get a pre-alpha version of the game right now, and new builds every month: Here's our new website for the game. Here's our new forums for Fantasy Strike. Even in its early prototype state, it was.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. Netcode Fantasy Strike’s netcode is a different kind of innovation. Innovation can come in many different flavors. No, you would not.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 6, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox IO Interactive has opened a studio in the UK to work on its two big projects: Project Fantasy and Project 007. The new team is based in Brighton and there is already a small group of developers in place. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix has announced that it will move its main offices in Japan to Shibuya. As reported by Siliconera , after the construction of a new building is complete in November 2024, the firm will relocate. Read more

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Half Geek

MAY 5, 2019

I had two game in mind that I wanted to work on moving forward, a fantasy open world with empire building inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic (3), or a new sci-fi space epic focused on large fleets & empire building.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 17, 2016

Thank you to all our patrons for supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Although we're not ready to show the game publicly yet, we give our $25+ patrons new builds every month, the latest one is here. For those who are interested right NOW, here's what's in our latest build. Midori’s super takes a long time to build.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

While there certainly are games which feature India as a setting, both from Indian studios and international companies, they tend to focus on fantasy or mythical aspects of the nation. So we had to build all of that on our own. Three Oscars Shalin Shodhan is no stranger to building immersive worlds.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2023

Now it's prepping to build on that with a simultaneous PC and mobile launch for its upcoming turn-based fantasy RPG King Arthur: Legends Rise. A couple years back it took its first steps into the world of PCs, bringing its RPG shopkeeper sim Shop Titans to PC after an initial mobile launch.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. This article , in particular, from Nintendo Power, I have a distinct memory of reading and being totally transfixed by the concept of the world of Final Fantasy 1. (I A cool, fun game.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 19, 2016

Thank you to all the patrons supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. The $25+ patrons are getting builds of the game as we go (latest build here ), as we aren’t actually ready to show the game publicly yet. This was possible because some of the tradeoffs on quality vs performance in our previous builds really made no sense.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Some titles, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby, have taken things one step further by taking a multimedia approach, with mobile games, anime, and manga series all coexisting and building an ever-expanding universe. Over the years, many titles have jumped on the bandwagon, spanning a wide variety of genres.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. I wanted to emphasize the tree's influence on the landscape, and it felt less artificial than building walls or random cliffs. The two big influences for this map were Elden Ring and Halo.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. If the prototype gets approved, the team ramps more and builds an entire playable demo that demonstrates all of the major game systems at work. At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve made my fair share of mistakes while building this business. If people like sci-fi and fantasy, you give them sci-fi and fantasy. Even something as ideal for Kickstarter as a $20 fantasy worker placement small box game needs something to catch people’s eyes. I don’t sweep them under the rug.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pioneers of Pagonia is a fantasy city building and economy management game from Envision Entertainment. Volker Wertich: It’s an important tool to build up the hype for the game and to generate fans. But of course, you build up trust with people who liked the games you created in the past.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Points are gained by building outposts and fortifications, commissioning monks and confronting outsiders. When you’re making a fantasy board game (or novel), some time periods draw more attention than others. Think of all the fantasy books set in the Middle Ages. The game is concluded at the end of the seventh round.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. The latest game from Pangea Games is launching on Kickstarter.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

” The team sought to break away from traditional sci-fi and fantasy genres, finding inspiration in gaslamp fantasy—a style that blends nineteenth-century history with magical elements. “What interested us as game makers is the idea of building worlds that have depth and substance to them.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

Limited-time event skins are not only a great way to boost revenues, but they’re also a great way to build retention and UA by encouraging players to play the game for limited-time items. Zombie Frontier 3’s Christmas content Event-related offers (e.g., Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival, aka.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s Amazing Village Building Volume 01 by Kuzu Shichio! Plot: Where Fushi no Kami is a heart-warming tale of a boy with memories of a past life determining to uplift society from the dark ages, Amazing Village Building is very different. For those who like: Fantasy, Nation Building, Action, Adventure, Romance.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

Video games are no stranger to the power fantasy of a lone hero who single-handedly turns the tides of war and saves the day, world, or universe. Fun Dog Studios was founded when a team of 30 veteran devs came together to build their own dream game. Just trying to survive another day is all the victory you can hope for. Or die trying.”

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

Or, alternatively, you can focus on building an empathetic understanding of what companies need to succeed and how you can help them. The only reliable way to build a business is to routinely meet market demand. If people like sci-fi or fantasy, most publishers will try to make sci-fi games, fantasy games, or both.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It takes me a long time to build up the energy to pour in the number of hours a game like this requires. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. I finally got around to playing Hades, the megahit roguelike from Supergiant Games.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 27, 2020

Whether you’re just spreading the word about one game or whether you’re building a whole long-lasting business from scratch, you should consider advertising as part of a larger marketing plan. There are three ways you can build your audience for the first time. Why advertising is good. Think about it.

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