Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Multiplayer: Move packet relay and peer signaling code to SceneMultiplayer ( GH-67094 ). beta 3 (209 commits – excluding merge commits ― from 78 contributors).

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 1, 2024

That means the root is an object, and within that object I have a key to the array of content that I actually care about. There are also some “skills” that were provided as a sentence such as: “Lore related to one terrain inhabited by animals you like (such as Plains Lore or Swamp Lore).”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. Code completion has also seen a great increase in accuracy.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 20, 2024

The result of this code based on our current setup of the “EncounterActions”, is that a monster will first try to “Bite” and then if no opponent is within range, will next attempt to “Stride” to come within range of a target. We refactored and added code so that we could let the A.I.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. Maturity and fullness means that as an online game, Lost Ark’s artistic expression meets the tastes and needs of mainstream players and is massive and varied in content.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I’m going to go ahead and just make this a SPOILER discussion as far as game content goes, so that I can write freely about related mechanics, so maybe don’t read this one if you’re spoiler averse and not familiar with teleporting. The High-powered variety has a pretty significant range boost as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2020

Most of the teams have accepted new reality and are preparing to make the most out of uncertain terrain. Having a wider portfolio of diverse user base gives an ability to do somewhat effective retargeting due to IDFV - a code assigned to all apps by one developer and is shared across all apps by that developer on your device.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The first part of this so-called “Great Utility Update” began during Alpha 12 with a few fundamental mechanical changes, but since then the project remained on the to-do list until 1) even more content was added to the game, and 2) we collected more info about what items people were and were not using, and why.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters. So these are leftover placeholders that lead to cut content. Not great encounter design.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. My personal solution was to program my own shape generator, based on values from the terrain generator. And that’s still a big issue with procedural generation for visual content.  

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Yes it’s optional and clearly not the default considering it removes one of Angband’s defining features, but this addition made the game playable for some who hated the original incentive to grind, dangling there like a carrot at every depth, and also gave existing players an alternative way to enjoy the content. Meta Complexity.

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