Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

WE SHOULD ALL DO THIS / STEAL THIS: Dev-owned wiki. The dev team "SureAI" operates the official Endreal strategy guide and lore wiki. But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Anyway, here's my notes. Money sink.

Open World 130

Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain 130

SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

hours of gameplay and therefore my goal is to create an open world where my character can explore 6 different micro-environments each taking about 15 minutes to complete and each with their own set of obstacles, characters and stories. But in my world I expect to have a lot of rough edges. I want a game with roughly 1.5

Asset 52

Asset Indy Art Code 52

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

Point and Click 52

Point and Click Mechanics Feature Open World 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). The above samples show encounters added to a variety of Garrison layouts, highlighted with a dev visualization overlay. Generating more paths would likely make Garrisons easier in some regards (unnecessary!), Garrison encounter distribution samples, color-coded by category.

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52