Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 23, 2024

NPC Escort design has evolved since players had to escort the Defias Traitor to Sentinel Hill way back in 2004. If the goal is to protect the escorted NPC, then no real changes are necessary - the player is supposed to stay with the NPC and deal with the threats that appear along the way. World of Warcraft).

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2024

AI is increasingly being utilized in game development, not just for automation and cost reduction, but also as an innovative gameplay feature. Various games now incorporate versions of Chat GPT to enhance NPC interactions. One notable example is Uncover the Smoking Gun by South Korean studio ReLU Games.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 29, 2024

In most games, a player character can typically sell as many wombat testicles to the NPC vendor as she might have, creating new currency out of thin air for each testicle sold. There is no limit to the number of wombat testicles she can sell and there is no limit to the amount of currency the NPC can generate for her.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A The Forgotten City (2021).

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Laurie (Avocado Fire) joins Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* to talk about ideas and how to start your first game without following a tutorial and starting from scratch, along with other helpful tips. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… How to Add Triggers and Switches Using Bolt (No-Code Game Dev). In this tutorial we’ll learn how to add triggers and switches to your game using Unity’s bolt add-on. The unit we’ll use to do this is the “game object compare tag”. Want to Make Video Games? Conclusion.

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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. It would feel terrible.

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