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 enjoyed what I was doing very much.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” Innovation can come in many different flavors.

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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. It wasn't really fun to fight on the actual tree branches.

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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. As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight!

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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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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

My team and I have been working on Fantasy Strike for almost a year and half now. It's a fighting game featuring the same characters as my Yomi card game and it's unusually easy to play. 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.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 10, 2016

In this episode, I discuss an advanced kind of fighting game AI for the upcoming Fantasy Strike fighting game (playable builds for that available for higher tier patrons, btw). That same podcast link also has links to all the other episodes of Raw Game Design too, btw.

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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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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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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. It's a 2020-vintage roguelike, which means: A bunch of rooms with fights. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. You get money to buy randomly selected upgrades.

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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. If a really accessible, easy-to-play fighting game that's still tournament-quality appeals to you, please support us.

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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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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

On the other hand, why shouldn't our fantasy settings involve Mesoamerican and Andean influences? Any layout device that can break line of sight to stagger waves / structure a fight can function effectively as a closet. If you build carefully, you might not even need any special monster closets at all. How do we do this right?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

An ambitious game that combines medieval city building and kingdom defense with ARPG combat and monster hunting. “So, Now that I’m working with a publisher that has a strong interest in seeing indie devs like me succeed, I talk through some things with them and share alpha builds, screenshots etc. I definitely want to build a team.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Yomi was "a fighting game in card form" that I made before making the actual fighting game Fantasy Strike. Now, Yomi 2 is a re-imagining of that fighting-card-game concept. There's a new "exchange" system that lets you swap certain cards from your hand with those in your discard pile to help you build the hand you want.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Tech buildings let you build more powerful units. Patreon has been the biggest surprise-great-thing to me in the last year.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As well as embarking on an epic Viking voyage and a wide variety of fights, players tend to a kingdom by growing crops and upgrading buildings with construction and management sim mechanics. As an example, Granblue Fantasy is an RPG with heavy social ements, while Puzzle & Dragons is a Match3 puzzle game.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

If you'd like to learn more about Codex, here's three articles about the game's design: #1 Codex Design: Cards and Gold As Resources #2 Codex Design: Heroes and Tech Buildings #3 Codex Design: Combat and the Patrol Zone Anyway, all those Codex early access sets already shipped out and my patrons often play each other over Skype.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 23, 2024

The developers expect over forty hours of gameplay with three large areas to explore and more than hundred different enemies to fight. Artistically speaking, we managed to re-create a believable world which makes you ‘feel’ Italy while having a healthy amount of fantasy to it.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2024

The developers expect over forty hours of gameplay with three large areas to explore and more than hundred different enemies to fight. Artistically speaking, we managed to re-create a believable world which makes you ‘feel’ Italy while having a healthy amount of fantasy to it.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Comparatively, the original Skyrim mod felt like more of a city with more buildings, more organization, more density. Why would they build (and maintain) a big theater space that they never use? The final boss fight is a conversation, and the ultimate weapon is. Worldbuilding wise, it doesn't quite make sense. Take that, god!

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. Unless actually fighting a boss fight. Retraining your character should be affordable, so that you can easily experiment with different builds. The Power Fantasy This is a fantasy. That's the loop. Which means it has to have variety. No suspense.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. To dig a solid fantasy out of that ‘omelette’, we found ourselves essentially relying on a good ol’ helping of subtractive design. However, building a proper structure to do so is equally important.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

FINAL FANTASY XVI – After playing a bunch more Kingdomheartslikes and getting more used to that, I’ve gotta say, this is a very well made Kingdomheartslike. Whereas if you compare that to something like Final Fantasy 13, there is a pretty central thing that’s being headed toward the entire time. Bad FIGHT pacing.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With a love of sci-fi and fantasy, he decided to pursue a career in the film and game industry where he could explore these realms. To paint fantasy illustrations for Wizards of the Coast has been a lifelong goal, and here is an opportunity to learn from someone who has! What good would that be in a fight? Beowulf by Oliver.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. You can turn on the tap and choose from 73 different flavors of Medieval Fantasy Content. But there was no political obligation to like or hate Generic Fantasy Product made by a Trillion Dollar Global Conglomerate.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Codex's Blood hero, Drakk Ramhorn is new to the Fantasy Strike universe. The hardest part is deciding when to shift all your attention to damaging your opponent's base (that’s how you win the game), versus when to fight for control on the battlefield. various hooligans and monsters to fight for them too. Back to gameplay now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators! Build relationships, play minigames, use social media, and most importantly: solve the mystery at hand.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog! Programming.

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Filmustage

MARCH 11, 2022

Man has been fighting against nature all his life by building new cities and factories, but sooner or later everything old is swallowed up by nature. Then we are shown hysteria to build up the suspense, and afterwards a lot of computer graphics, how epically and dramatically cities are destroyed. 28 Days Later.". -

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Whitestar Order holds a series of fighting tournaments called Fantasy Strike, intended to bring together the many different peoples of the realm in hopes they learn to question Flagstone’s rule. The main drawback is just that it’s a building, meaning it can’t attack or patrol and you have to protect it.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Build armies, move troops strategically around to fortify positions in an attempt to strengthen your position, and attack and defend. In Mario Teaches Typing, there are four games to choose from, each one building on the previous one with regard to difficulty levels. This fantasy-based game is set in Enroth, where magic rules.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures! In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 18, 2023

And to fight it, they throw not all available forces but a small team, where there are both tough guys and somewhat ridiculous characters. In "Braindead" (1992), the kid fights zombies alone. Peter Jackson uses upper and lower angles to express that evil tends to occupy power and build hierarchy and dominance.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. I’m playing through Final Fantasy VII Rebirth now (which I am loving) and it’s very clear in that game, whether you are in Outside , Dungeon or Town , pretty much at all times.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. In the later game Alfheim Online , level and skills were all but ignored, emphasizing player skill like a shooter or fighting game. Are higher stakes good or bad?

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