The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It doesn't matter how good your content is if nobody sees it. During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Each chapter had exactly one very memorable, hateable villain to fight. Baldur's Gate 3 is too long. Doesn't matter.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog! Programming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” The rough cutscene).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures!

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one! Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Game Errors

APRIL 26, 2023

The spin-offs that came out in the 10s were crazy – players traveled from a retro fantasy world to the Stone Age and from there to the post-apocalypse. Far Cry is just famous for the fact that each new game is something very different from the previous ones. Some players may complete the story faster or slower than this estimate.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

King lost third of downloads but woke up towards the end of the year to fight back for downloads. While the zoo theme was on the money just a few years ago, with the rise of the animal rights movement, building a prison for animals is arguably not something the majority of their target audience fantasies. Top 6 Hidden Object games.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). 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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Sirlin

JULY 21, 2020

The Fantasy Strike fighting game is now free to play. So it’s not surprising that this hasn’t been done much in the fighting game genre yet. There are, in genres other than fighting games. That’s very unusual, and hardly any major f2p games work this way—but Fantasy Strike does. Isn’t This Standard?

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. New nerd content was rare and treasured. Now, of course, this sort of content is pretty much all there is. You can turn on the tap and choose from 73 different flavors of Medieval Fantasy Content.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Felt like they had to cut down 50% of their planned content, which is never easy. The final boss fight is a conversation, and the ultimate weapon is. Planescape Torment's final boss fight conversation works because the god stuff is a metaphor for the protagonist's personal arc -- the final boss isn't god! philosophy and logic!!

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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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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I would have played it sooner, but I was on this huge Final Fantasy kick (which is still ongoing, to be honest). I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. It stands in stark contrast to 1995’s Final Fantasy V, where it’s extremely exciting to play around with the classes. Wish me luck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. The game also lacks sustainable growth with poor retention due to limited in-game content, weak end-game, and grindy progression. Dislyte is in the last group (i.e., original titles).

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. I believe that Skyrim is a mix of hand-crafted and procedurally (or at least tools-generated) content, and it could be a pretty fair comparison. Worldwide Gated Content.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala. Behold, friends!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The fantasy setting, unlike the modern combat setting of Puzzle Combat, is essential in tapping into this motivation. It’s the saga map that unlocks new content, such as expansions of the player’s castle and new buildings. Players fight against the Dark Lord as a Boss in the final level of the first chapter.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Thanks to groundbreaking technology advancements, developers can now take advantage of cutting-edge software and game engines which enable them to create fantasy worlds in video games. Immersion is essential to every excellent game, and a 3D visualization is a terrific approach to creating engaging content.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 28, 2023

Sometimes I have to remind myself, with a bit of a shock, that I write fantasy for a living. Yes, I write fantasy. My almost thirty year fantasy-writing career has been very prolific (18 all-new games!) Who likes fantasy? What makes fantasy work? After all, fantasy is the default mode for fiction by humans.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The biggest acquisition in the sub-genre happened last year, with Applovin acquiring Machine Zone - the company that made some of the most iconic top-grossing 4X games of all time (Game of War, Modern Strike, Final Fantasy: New Empire). Unlike with Sniper games, you could move and you were actually fighting other players.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

He really is an ultimate weapon in that he can fight forever, can’t die or tire, and he can raise the dead of the First Men as his own undead army. That’s hard to do because in the scale of a war, a single person’s fighting skill doesn’t really matter that much, even if the story wants it to. The men in contention to rule all died.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. In a fantasy RPG (even one of mine), you are threatened by an enemy, THEREFORE you get your sword. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer. That’s as efficient as fantasy storytelling gets. Now … Wait.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

3rd party IPs account for about 20% of the Top 300 Grossing games in the USA (not counting event content). The brand affinity generates engagement while answering some hard questions about player fantasy, character, world, demographic and art style. The core fan fantasy was that everyone just wants to go to Hogwarts.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

At that point, the developer will work overtime to produce content but see no return for their investment as the revenue is spent on fuelling further growth. Your initial investment is somewhere in the $250 - $300 million range to launch a service with half the content of Apple Arcade. Plus they have a library of world-class content.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from publisher’s website.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

The basics of the game have remained more or less the same, with only small additions of decorative items and other monetization content added into the game later on. All the content in the game mode, except the battles, is delivered in written form with choices for the player to make in each room. USD in the very beginning to 0.66

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Core Battle: Fighting on Auto-Pilot. At the bottom of the screen (see “2” above) your recently used team will automatically be fighting an endless mob of enemies. You should be familiar with this core loop - it’s in pretty much every gacha-driven game on the market. The Core Battle is simple and requires very little input.

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