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

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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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2025

New studios do start up, but entry level positions are rare since most of the new studios are looking for funding and they need the core senior dev team to build enough of a prototype to sell the idea to the money people. Create art assets, build gameplay systems, create game content, do stuff to level up and grow your skills.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“What interested us as game makers is the idea of building worlds that have depth and substance to them. By building, crafting, exploring and fighting your goal is to become a skilled Realmwalker that finds their way through the portals to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

Firstly to Android (Google Play), then PC Steam* and later iOS if Apple allows my old MacBook to use their newer software to build apps for iTunes. Faction fleet battles are larger, with each side sending more ships to the fight. Help to keep frame rates smooth during bigger fleet fights with carrier builds.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. What’s your creative process? “My In which time period is it set?’

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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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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

The rules for this item are complicated and fiddly, but if you work hard and think about it, you can build your character in a way that makes it sort of useful. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Then follow through. It's art, after all. Follow your vision. Me, I sold it. Nicely done.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. Carlsen initiates with a gameplay sketch, and the art team starts building a 3D location. “We

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cult of the Lamb by Massive Monster This is a Hades-like / Binding of Issac-ish 2D action roguelike wrapped around a Don't Starve / Rimworld-y town building crafting survival system, with all the subversively violent dark cartoon humor of those references. After all, how many games offer you a "suffering musician" build?

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. There are many more ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. No one tried to challenge whether it was worth building what the team originally had in mind.

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