PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The concept of who recovers first after a move hits or is blocked is called “frame advantage” in fighting games. The “frame” is the basic unit of time in fighting games, means a still frame of graphics shown every 1/60th of a second. It means that beginners can play the “real game” sooner.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. But not really.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2024

In the upcoming survival-climber game Cairn by French developer The Game Bakers, players step into the role of professional climber Aava, who embarks on a daring ascent of Mount Kami, a summit never before conquered. We thought it was a cool concept for a game about the search for freedom.” But it’s worth it!”

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 22, 2023

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. 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.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This week while working on my current board game design, a lot of things have come into focus. Now it’s time to start tweaking board game rules. This is where board game design often becomes very tricky. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 27, 2024

Founded in 2017 by Parth Soni and Sally Luc , the company now has five full-time employees and an additional five contractors, all working on their latest game Aikyam. Aikyam exemplifies how our collective experiences and unique representation of Indian culture set the game apart from others.

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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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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

Monopoly: it’s one of the oldest board games in the store. It’s one of the top 10 best-selling board games. It’s also a terrible board game. When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game? Monopoly has a staggeringly low 4.4

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the most intricate and complex parts of the board game business. 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. Need help on your board game? But there’s more to it than that.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. years of development.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. Still, you can argue that it's a stunning achievement just to be able to debate these questions in a video game. Can't wait for the full frontal in the next game!) Well, I don't know anything about that.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Today’s breakdown is for Pandemic , one of my favorite board games of all time. In fact, this is the one for me – the one that opened my eyes to the larger board game community. It is the one that broke me out of the prison of Monopoly , Yahtzee , and other games that many hardcore board gamers love to hate with an irrational vigor.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. It became increasingly clear that anything they tried to make that wasn’t a slapstick fencing game simply bogged the experience down.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Within broader game design culture, the theme also invokes an awkward aspect of cultural appropriation and reduction. Instead I'm making a small level for a 25 year old game that no one plays. The massing was inspired by this "Forgotten Temple" concept art by Jonas Ellermann (above). The textures are fine!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. And for that debut the duo came up with an enticing mix of elements that really sets the game apart. “I But that’s not all.

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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. All these crossovers come in different shapes and sizes too, spanning everything from fashion brands, automotive, anime, TV, movies, and even other video games. Their secret to success?

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The number of jobs people can apply for when they have excellent coding skills is incredible; not only are there prestigious, high-paying jobs like app or video game developer. Programming is Math Kids learn foundational mathematical concepts when they learn to code, such as vectors, integers, and, later, even trigonometry.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With a love of sci-fi and fantasy, he decided to pursue a career in the film and game industry where he could explore these realms. The curriculum covered many topics from cinematic storytelling, lighting and color theory, trading card and gaming art to illustrating book covers. Still from Marvel's Avengers: End Game portal scene.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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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. So please join my Patreon at the gold tier to access that right now and help us pay for making this awesome game.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Founded in 2017 by Parth Soni and Sally Luc , the company now has five full-time employees and an additional five contractors, all working on their latest game Aikyam. Aikyam exemplifies how our collective experiences and unique representation of Indian culture set the game apart from others.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Over the past year and a half I’ve been diving hard into a huge number of different RPGs: Nearly all the 1-player Final Fantasies, Dragon Quest, Trails in the Sky, the Tales games, Scarlet Nexus, a really cool Japanese GBA game called Magical Vacation, and a lot more. The working title of the game is Free Tiya Bannet!

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Mobile gaming has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, with millions of users spending time playing games on their smartphones and tablets. As the mobile gaming market continues to expand, mobile game developers must find ways to make their games stand out in a crowded marketplace. So, let’s dive in!

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Codex is a new take on customizable card games. Last week I posted a new Raw Game Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) where I discuss "reset buttons" in Codex (cards that blow up the board so you can possibly come back from a very bad position). Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So what I’m interested in is: what needs fixing to make it a game I enjoy? The parts of the game’s strategy that sound interesting only really kick in if both players are at roughly the same move-crunching ability tier. The early game is slow and boring. And if you did that, who else might enjoy it?

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

In May 2023, Japanese video game developer and publisher Capcom completed 44 years as one of the most successful companies in the industry. Corporation, by Kenzo Tsujimoto, while he was still president of Irem Corporation, another Japanese video game manufacturer and publisher. in the early 80s.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

No one Talks about the Stamina Bar in Farming Games. And they continue on with the game. And that’s how far most stamina bar in farming games goes. Actually, you can say that to a lot of games now, but let’s just stick with the farming genre since my game is in that genre. What the Stamina Bar Does.

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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.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. 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.” Innovation can come in many different flavors.

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