Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But here's what I'm playing and what I'm talking about: Immortality Wayward Strand Cult of the Lamb Betrayal at Club Low Atuel Immortality by Half Mermaid The third "FMV game" helmed by auteur Sam Barlow and his studio, about collecting short video fragments to assemble complex psychological stories. A high concept with a high execution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

This talk highlights important points about functional programming, including advantages and disadvantages, brushes over some theoretical concepts, and shows how those can be applied when programming in GDScript. Talk: Visual Vertical Slice - Not just concept art, but not yet a demo | Matejs Balodis. x features.

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Game Designing

APRIL 30, 2022

Unfortunately, many game development processes require you to read pages and pages of documentation, but Kaboom.js is perfect for anyone interested in game development, but specifically those relatively new to the concept. makes all of this much simpler and offers a platform that makes game development accessible for novices.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 7, 2022

I don’t really have a great term for it, but the term I’ll use for this article is “ Aesthetic Gacha-ism “ Even if loot boxes and gambling and other predatory practices were effectively banned tomorrow, I think our games would still be marked by these design tropes for quite a while. Compulsion-driven design.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad. Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units. I was very pleased with myself!

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

Before I get started, I should make it clear which context it is that I’m talking about: single player, somewhat narrative driven videogames, like RPGs or adventure games. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory! They explain, limit, and clarify.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. No, not to my knowledge.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

At every point in the skill spectrum, players should see a path to improve, as well as see greater winnings as a result of their improvement. Clicking on dots that move around a screen may be tedious. However, if the dots are monsters and clicking shoots a fireball, it becomes fun. Skill curve. Written by Eric Guan.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. People liked the game but there was also useful feedback (and observation) of where we can improve. Still too much clicking required. The game still requires constant clicking, even more than Diablo, and this is something we’ll have to solve.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) and is likely to either become a player crutch or lead to tedious optimal play (a topic I covered in my game design philosophy article ). but it gets the point across (open image for full size). Meta Complexity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I think a lot of the time when you end up fundraising, you typically fundraise off the back of an initial product idea or initial, hey, there's an opportunity to make a combine a match-3 and the RPG and the MMO category into that, you know, wild new type of game that. It's a hybrid game. but you can't really get to the point.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Do not bother with design. Don't apply design patterns or encapsulation for the sake of it. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. A common excuse for this is teamwork and many programmers working on a game. If it doesn't, don't touch it.

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