iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This mainly involves testing for incomplete interface design, audio and video issues, and mechanical shortcomings, among other problems that may lead to missed colors, freezing, and inconsistent animation, among other bugs or errors. This may include testing gameplay mechanics, character interactions, and AI behavior, to mention a few.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Also, define your game’s genre, interaction modes, and gameplay mechanics. Prototyping  Create a minimum viable product or a prototype to assess your multiplayer game’s core mechanics. Teams collaborate to code and create the multiplayer game’s art assets, levels, and audio. Start by defining the type of game you want to create.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In simple terms, test automation covers all edges and branches of your game code. This ensures that many game mechanics, interactions, and features are thoroughly tested. Different game types benefit from varying levels of automated playtesting. Your game’s code changes frequently during the development process.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. This intro makes it easy for players to get started and feel comfortable with the game mechanics.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture. …alert level xD. That’s a problem.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This new batch of items in particular is composed of quite a few belonging to the mechanics-heavy very interesting category, so in that regard this spike is quite meaningful. Just this week I streamed the first playtest of that feature, and was pleasantly surprised. Unless a Recycler eats the code. Its time has come.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The entire mechanic revolves around a single new utility: the Scrap Engine. Although in both cases the results are indeed based on the inputs, the process is not deterministic, so it’s not a pure “crafting” mechanic in that sense. Construct-Related Mechanics. A new utility is born.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

He was trying to create a whole city on a very real Commodore 64, and the ideas of these two designers required very different types of coding. However, after playtesting, Hudson realized that his game’s meaning was the exact opposite from what he wanted: My game was telling players: You can’t have it all. Life is zero sum.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you're familiar with some of Kristala's backstory and lore, you may already know that the general aesthetic for our rodent-like Kotakayans takes inspiration from a sort of mechanical, steampunk vibe, which you can definitely see in the weapons Nick designed below. Also fixed logic error in the code. Take a look!

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2024

Naturally, I was really intrigued with creating games once I had the appropriate coding knowledge for it. The grappling hook is one rather unique mechanic in the game in the sense that it is a lot more flexible than most grappling hooks in other games. I thought, why not go up instead, so the mountain climbing setting came to mind.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur. Instead I adapted a more abstract "hanky code" , a color coding system most popular among gay men in the 1970s to flag which types of sex acts and roles they enjoyed. These moods must be compatible.

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