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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori reaches Kickstarter goal in just 19 hours

PreMortem.Games

Alice Ruppert , a leading authority on equestrian games with her website The Mane Quest and a producer on the game, spent most of 2023 working on its inception and concept, laying the foundation for a game that faithfully portrays horses. So, we wanted to go for a style that can be highly appealing to open-world adventure players.

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori takes equestrian gaming to 13th century Mongolia

PreMortem.Games

Alice Ruppert , a leading authority on equestrian games with her website The Mane Quest and a producer on the game, spent most of 2023 working on its inception and concept, laying the foundation for a game that faithfully portrays horses. “We So, we wanted to go for a style that can be highly appealing to open-world adventure players.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

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. There are two open world regions, Redfall Commons and Burial Point.

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Mystery investigation specialist EQ Studios “All our murder scenes are fictional”

PreMortem.Games

This decision gave rise to The Painscreek Killings , a walking simulator detective game with a strong narrative focus. “We “We were short on talent and experience”, says Tomi. Rather than being too ambitious, we decided to find a comfortable genre and work within our strengths.” But over the course of development, the narrative grew.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. This concept grew organically from a single idea. What’s your creative process? “My This helps me define the set of key ideas I’d like to explore.

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How to Create Video Game Atmosphere

Game Designing

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Rather, each game is made great by a purposeful use of atmosphere that helps to communicate the developers’ vision for the world and how the player should feel about it. Compare two games Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. We’ve seen a few more simulation titles hit the charts this year.