Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich. Skill UI of the Witch class).

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

Once again, communication with producers, PMs, and marketing teams is crucial to understand the mechanics of the game you are promoting in order to deliver texts that are appealing to the public and increase sales in your country. You had a brilliant idea for that NPC or weapon name that you are very proud of?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? One such creature featured in Kristala is a sweet and gentle Hemani named Cloudette, an NPC you'll encounter in a unique level area called The Hermitage. He's a merchant NPC you'll meet as you embark on your journey to becoming a Raksaka warrior.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This month, in addition to our typical development sprints, we've also been hard at work prepping a super special convention build of Kristala for the upcoming Play NYC convention. They're super skilled at creating mechanically beautiful weapons and armor adorned with gears, sprogs, and tons of bronze. Have a look!

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

How to become a 3D modeler CG Spectrum's 3D modeling career track and Bachelor of Animation and VFX (3D modeling) will help you build solid 3D modeling and sculpting skills. You’ll learn industry-quality asset creation, building 3D props, creatures, and environments using Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, guided by industry experts.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

[link] With Tiff working on the beginning portions of the Dalamase, the newest member of our Level Design team, Ian, got started on blocking out and detailing the underground Cave level area that's home to an important NPC featured in Kristala's storyline. Stay tuned for an even more satisfying backstab mechanic in the future.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. Even a handful of new mechanics or other properties are often enough to help create that question in people’s minds: “what else might be possible in this game?”

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In today’s tutorial, we take things a step further by teaching you how to use triggers and switches in order to help you create more interesting game mechanics. We don’t want it to trigger if an enemy or NPC walks within the area, so let’s set up a Unit which will allow for the identification of our player.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Quests that do world building. Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don't do much with after). Suddenly, I'm in a horror game and still it uses the mechanics from the general game. Say I need to get inside the castle. Is my only option stealth?

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Quests that do world building. Helping a NPC gets you a pet/sidekick [link] may I chime in? Funny, and builds NPC character (which they don’t do much with after). Suddenly, I’m in a horror game and still it uses the mechanics from the general game. Say I need to get inside the castle.

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 14, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC's. I'd like to be able to mouse over buildings to see what they are. I hate wandering into town and having to hunt down the right building. I am always annoyed by games that they to make inventory management a game-play mechanism. Needs more Pirates!

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Whenever an NPC is about to dump backstory and exposition on you, they'll ask you to take a seat. 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. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member.

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 13, 2005

Other than the people in my group, everyone else might as well be NPC’s. I’d like to be able to mouse over buildings to see what they are. I hate wandering into town and having to hunt down the right building. I am always annoyed by games that they to make inventory management a game-play mechanism.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! As we near a place where we’re ready to package our build for PlayNYC, Will’s been working hard to tie up any loose ends in Unreal. Check it out!

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight. Limited regen (e.g.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2024

World of Warcraft's old raid system where raids supported only 10 or 25 players are examples of such where tuning and mechanics were modified to specific player numbers. This means we need to think about building a system of rules to do this for us quickly and easily. That's far too much work to do in any reasonable amount of time.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

After over a year of exhibiting at various online game conventions, we can't properly tell you how stoked we are to be presenting an exclusive build of Kristala—featuring our revamped demo level—at this year's Play NYC convention. Kristala at Play NYC 2021. Concept Art.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Items in Rogue may also be cursed and therefore non-removable except via special means, though that is a tangential mechanic tied more to the identification minigame rather than item randomization itself.) Other types of NPCs can modify or convert other types of items. Find a Mechanic who may be hanging around a Repair Station.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. If so, you probably want to be a game writer. And that’s valid!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The game's complexity, especially for new players, is a significant challenge, with an overwhelming number of game mechanics introduced rapidly. Every time you complete the Dungeon, you can do it again right away, but the NPC Opponent goes up by one level, so it becomes more and more difficult each time.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As we move closer and closer to completing the vertical slice for Kristala, our dev team has been working hard to finish all the designs, models, and mechanics that will be featured in Dalamase, the level area that's featured in the slice. Stay tuned to future issues of the dev blog for more updates from our level design team.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to implementing death animations, Will also modified our new backstab mechanics to be more in line with the results we were looking for, then worked on ensuring our Stat system properly displays in the crystal menu and properly performs clamps. We're pumped to get this into the game build once all five are completely finished.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

With all core mechanics and elements now in place, the last thing on the list is to add any last-minute assets and address bugs. Featuring a vast web of buildings and abodes that slowly snake up the catacomb walls, Myr is a mysterious city of labyrinthian paths and alleyways. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When we last met, we shared some exciting updates from our time exhibiting at Play NYC 2021, and shared all the work that went into ensuring the exclusive build we prepared for the convention was in tip-top shape and ready to be played. Concept Art. If you're a big lover of fantasy games (and we're betting you are!)

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The game's complexity, especially for new players, is a significant challenge, with an overwhelming number of game mechanics introduced rapidly. Every time you complete the Dungeon, you can do it again right away, but the NPC Opponent goes up by one level, so it becomes more and more difficult each time.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? Some players may try to guess an NPC's sexual mood based on stereotypes like muscular tops, skinny submissive twink bottoms, etc. Building up huge group sessions is the key to completing later levels. Lindell focuses on two aspects: wandering and visibility.

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