Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. There's a gamer joke about how every JRPG ends with killing god, and the emerging Western millennial equivalent is to end with the final boss of capitalism. But not really.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 22, 2023

In the ten to 14-year-old category, Max Whistlecraft won the Game Concept award with Polarity, a science-themed title; users can switch the polarities like a magnet to fight bosses. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox BAFTA has unveiled the 2023 winners of its Young Game Designers (YGD) awards.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

It was during those moments, captivated by the epic boss fights and voice acting in Final Fantasy 7, that Madiba’s deep love for video games was ignited. Olivier Madiba recalls playing games on warm sunny afternoons at his grandmother’s home with a spark in his eyes. These are some of his fondest childhood memories.

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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. Yes, yes, we all know what they’re spoofing off of with the title, “The Inner Fight.”

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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. This concept grew organically from a single idea. This alternate history setting allowed me to explore all sorts of concepts in a hard sci-fi fashion inspired by Asimov and the ‘naivety’ of the Golden Era of science fiction. If yes – how?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While he didn’t immediately embark on this ambitious project, the concept lingered in his mind and gradually took shape as a concrete game design. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2024

We thought it was a cool concept for a game about the search for freedom.” Their previous titles, such as the intense boss-fight game Furi and the romantic space RPG Haven, have established them as innovative storytellers. This makes the development process quite exhausting as we have to test a lot and do a lot of investigation.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Worker placement is a very simple concept with really profound implications. There’s an old concept in business called “ second but better.” They fight for your attention so that enough people stick around to see the real artistry. Everdell doesn’t really do anything new. This is not an insult.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

The massing was inspired by this "Forgotten Temple" concept art by Jonas Ellermann (above). Any layout device that can break line of sight to stagger waves / structure a fight can function effectively as a closet. I liked the angular arches, overhangs, and sculpted heads, and you can see those features prominently in my version too.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Programming is Math Kids learn foundational mathematical concepts when they learn to code, such as vectors, integers, and, later, even trigonometry. Enrolling them in online coding classes for kids exposes them to important math concepts. RP4K caps class sizes at four, so students don’t need to fight to get heard.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Pandemic blows the minds of a lot of new gamers because it’s often the game that introduces the concept of cooperative board game play. You play as members of the CDC fighting four pandemics, each of which are constantly threatening to wipe whole metropolitan areas off the map.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Quick side note: when I first started out trying to get into the entertainment industry, it was as a concept artist. It was illustration that made me tick much more than the concept art box. Don’t get me wrong, I still work on and enjoy concept art, just nowhere near as much as illustration. What good would that be in a fight?

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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. For the last four and a half years, I've been working on a sequel to Yomi.

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game. We cover the high concept about making a fighting game more accessible from top to bottom than anything else we've seen, the specific game mechanics we chose to accomplish that, and the resulting dynamics of how it plays. Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game.

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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. In this 2v2v2v2 event, fights are broken down into several 2v2 rounds in small arenas, with each team having a limited number of lives. Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Think long and hard about how much you want the game to fight back against the players. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Last and certainly not least, I plan to post a new playable version of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep fighting game (for the $25+ patrons). We're also looking for a volunteer concept artist to help with our stages.

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

Fighting in the streets After working in the production of Irem’s 1984 beat ‘em up game Kung-Fu Master, which was an instant success both in Asia and North America, Japanese designer, director and producer Takashi Nishiyama came up with the idea for a fighting game centered around the boss fights of the previous title.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

In fact, I’ve written about a few times: a crash course on the concepts , how to prepare for the costs , and a personal story of how hard it was to fulfill War Co. Carriers are competitive, fighting each other for business. A graphics designer was hired to come up with a visual concept that would have people smile and feel good.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Concept Art. After Concept Artist Harold reimagined each level area in the demo, we then had him concept out the individual props that will be needed to carefully detail each environment. We really liked the concept of the existing logo, but we wanted to see what it would look like with a more realistic clock tower.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Its 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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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

” However, he admitted that the market was muddied by the “mad dash to the metaverse,” an idea that intertwines VR and AR technology with the concepts of Web 3.0 He concluded, “I think there’s obviously enough space for these two to kind of fight it out.” and blockchain.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article , in particular, from Nintendo Power, I have a distinct memory of reading and being totally transfixed by the concept of the world of Final Fantasy 1. (I Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights). Some of my earliest, most enchanted memories of games were in some early RPGs.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This is on purpose - you can tell at a glance where the attacks will be coming from when she fights. She looks pretty, but there would be so much context lost if this were used in a game - how does she fight? Sexy characters do work these core concepts of appeal, but appeal is essentially universal. What's important to look at?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. We then proceeded to remove everything that wasn’t a perfect fit for this new, narrower, core vision, and in the end we came full circle to something actually resembling the initial student concept.”

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

” Besides, when we – as gamers and game developers – put aside our frustration for a moment, we can actually see Monopoly for what it is: a solid concept with bad execution. There is some bitter truth behind the joking that Monopoly makes families fight. So be kind, and say “ thank you, next.”

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

All your good pieces are trapped behind a wall of bad pieces, so you both have to spend a bunch of turns moving the bad pieces out of the way so the good pieces can fight. That would already have me going back to the drawing board of a game concept to see if there’s a more elegant way of hitting the design goals.

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Played with Fire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Fighting your fears or taking a walk through your future home before the foundation is even laid? People find the concept of the metaverse exciting – And thats a fact. The days when you could count good VR games on one hand are long gone! No problem! Your favorite content creators – Theyre using VR too!

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The high visual polish and stellar production values adorn a solid but predictable gameplay loop: you fight through dungeons with random rooms / enemies, collect resources, and bring them back to your hub to build up your village and its inhabitants. A high concept with a high execution. The documentary process is unusual for games.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. I’ve listened to so many designers describe how through play-testing, a game came out dramatically different then their initial concept because the new version was more fun. Smash Bros.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight! link] Concept Art. We can't wait to go back again next year!

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Most innovative battle passes in mobile games For those less familiar with the concept of a battle pass, this is a season-based monetization mechanic in which players can obtain rewards by progressing through different thresholds. Battle pass feature popularity trend in US iOS mobile games 2018-2023 (source: GameRefinery Platform).

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