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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Review

Keith Burgun

I played Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The charm of this game is off the charts and is the main thing that makes me love it. The charm of this game is off the charts and is the main thing that makes me love it. This explains the otherwise confusing use of the title “Remake” for a game that… isn’t(?)

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Game-Changing Storytelling: How To Integrate Narrative Elements in Mobile Games

Game Refinery

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. This storyline is the primary driver for most of the game as the player levels up their character.

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Sent this ask a while ago but I think Tumblr ate it so here it is: In which stage of game development are relationships between characters decided? Asking this because I recently found an old Final Fantasy VII relationship chart and originally some characters were supposed to have completely different bonds compared to the ones they ended up having in the actual game. These seem to be quite important plot points, so I assume that final decisions should be made before creating cutscenes? Or you can change stuff later if devs come up with better ideas?

Ask a Game Dev

For features like cutscenes, it depends on how much difficulty it takes to build the cutscenes. That could mean combat, it could mean itemization, it could mean summoning magic, it could mean narrative, it could mean cutscenes/cinematics. If we can always make changes forever, we'll never ship the game.

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Secrets in Videogames

Keith Burgun

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them. They are findable.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Despite the game’s powerful use of top-down view, the live cutscenes of Lost Ark are full of bugs. The rough cutscene).

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The three most important qualities in an RPG

Keith Burgun

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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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

If Microsoft had given them another 6-12 months to truly polish everything, then it maybe would've been a more solid OK game. Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. But not really. So everyone's hoping Arkane gets another chance.

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