PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. As a one-person team, he embraces both the creative freedom and the intense challenges that come with solo development.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

And every enemy you down makes an exponentially more threatening reply from the warring factions, who might take a small break from their own fights to hunt you down.” Players take on the role of scavengers, or scavs, that have no allegiance to the fighting factions. They’re a mere mouse in a maze, scrounging for scraps. Or die trying.”

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." It's clear that we're cut from the same cloth and have similar experiences with competitive fighting games. Did you hear the news?

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Mods now available for Core Keeper, the game where you mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

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Indie DB

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Build, trade, and fight for territory within a newly discovered star system. beta decay is a voxel-based, dystopian RPG with a low-poly aesthetic.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

nWay’s previous games include overhead view, urban battleground Battlepalooza and head-to-head fighting games Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, and Power Rangers: Legacy Wars. Likewise, Wreck League is a fighting game, albeit with Web3 functionality and NFT collectibles. ” According to nWay, there are more than 1.5

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Joakim Achrn helps founders build successful games companies. If the company is perceived as a hot deal by investors, and many investors are fighting to lead your round, the founders can develop leverage. As a bonus, openly discussing your salary with investors helps align expectations and build transparency.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the past, I’ve tried creating a few YouTube channels (starting in 2017) and TikTok accounts, trying to build an audience and, eventually, turn it into a business. After finishing IHAS, I will start to build a strong team to work on games that are beyond my scope a solo dev.” It’s used to both fight enemies and solve puzzles.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2024

However, that expert may not always be available - maybe she's out on parental leave, maybe he has too many other fires to fight, maybe she's gone home for the day and it's 2am and we need to fix this for the build tonight and I'm the only engineer still awake and answering.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, the report contends that players are finding ways to fight back against the abuse they encounter. “Developers and players see game safety as a shared responsibility, and they agree that developers, players, and the broader industry all have a role to play in building safe game environments,” states the report.

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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. During this time, a quick pre-fight music fanfare plays, but the music itself is placeholder.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 14, 2025

Yomi was, as far as I know, the first fighting card game. This lets you get back your valuable blocks if you lose them, it lets you build up bigger combos if you want that, it lets you fill in missing moves, like if you have no throws or dodges ready, and it lets you set up for a power up which gets you super meter and a super card.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 14, 2018

It's interesting to build an RPG (using the term very loosely) where you have the option to play the entire game with no combat and it's still fun. Fight if you want, don't if you don't and it's equally as fun but it affects the narrative. Undertale did this but in a subversive way.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s interesting to build an RPG (using the term very loosely) where you have the option to play the entire game with no combat and it’s still fun. Fight if you want, don’t if you don’t and it’s equally as fun but it affects the narrative. Undertale did this but in a subversive way.

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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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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In season four’s ninth episode “The Inner Fight,” Mariner makes explicit that her self-sabotage stems from her fear that she’ll become a general who sends young people out to die like Picard was for Sito. I’m really hoping that the showrunners and writers will build on this idea in the next season.

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Raph Koster

JUNE 28, 2024

The Servitors fight off the tentacled spores of the hivemind Cornucopia that infects worlds. We have a lot left to build, but we want to do it in public, with the help of the players that this game is for. They’re long gone now — and we should probably be pretty terrified of whatever chased ’em off.

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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. 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! You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Building off of Taufner's solid blockout, I knocked holes in a lot of walls and ceilings to try to unify the rooms and give more breathing room, while ensuring they still played in roughly the same way. Basement, teach player about buttons and door types, via two 512x512 quarter-rooms and small player-initiated fights 2.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Compared to his contemporaries and successors, Barragán didn't make a lot of buildings nor design huge cities. It should feel surprising and overwhelming to fight so many so early in the map. When the player backtracks to find the key they may have missed, they will fight these ogres, and hopefully notice the silver key at that point.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 1, 2023

What you're describing is the dissonance between having a normal human (with all of the common context that carries with it, like "people often die when they are shot at all") as the final boss and the expectation of a final boss fight being a prolonged, memorable, and epic battle that tests the things you've learned so far.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. Riot has succeeded in building a brand that players trust. After four months TFT has $.43 43 Revenue per Download.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 27, 2024

It’s up to the three heroes Vishva, Ramli, and Guru-ji to gain the trust of the villagers and unite everyone in their fight against the demons that are aiming to seize their precious heirloom, the almighty Celestial Glue. It tells the story about a village that is plunged into chaos when the mayors go missing.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

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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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Scaling with Amazon GameLift Once youve integrated the game server with Amazon GameLift , upload the game server executable and any dependent assets as a Build and create a Fleet to run in AWS. bin/bash aws gamelift upload-build --name BlogDemo --operating-system AMAZON_LINUX_2023 --build-root. This demonstration uses t3.medium

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Why did they always have to be about fighting?” She’s been with me every step of the way as I try to build a career in this industry.” It’s a great community for building relationships and networks, which is important in the games industry. One of those games was Street Fighter. Every two weeks, we had assignments.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2024

At first they made a list of characters they wanted to build the next game around, but soon found out that the prize wasn’t exactly an All Access Pass. , he says. “We We worked hard on our game and it created this opportunity. Sometimes you just need a little luck as well.”

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 15, 2021

Designed by Elizabeth Hargrave, it is described on Board Game Geek as a “competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game.” It is an easy to approach, relatively quick-playing engine-building game. The effect is that game builds an engine all on its own while you are. Viticulture. Gaia Project.

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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. It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one. You get money to buy randomly selected upgrades.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. Yet once you conquer that danger, the game lets you take virtually any material you find in the environment and build with it. Furthermore, intuitive controls allow players to build skills and play around freely.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

As in 4X titles generally, the player is first familiarized with the base (called anthill in The Ants) and its construction mechanics and is soon introduced to the core gameplay map for some resource collecting and enemy fighting. The rough core loop is as follows: Troops collect resources and fight others on the core game map.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils. It looked really exciting to me, he says.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

You and all the other players in the game play as Spirits who fight off the Invaders – basically, people who want to colonize your island. However, the only real offense Bringer has is the Dahan fighting back. Excellent at destroying buildings, less good at containing Explorers. Lightning’s Swift Strike.

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