Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

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! Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. After playing, I agreed.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. It was during those moments, captivated by the epic boss fights and voice acting in Final Fantasy 7, that Madiba’s deep love for video games was ignited. This is his story. These are some of his fondest childhood memories.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

As the name suggests, Everdell has a fantasy setting, and is indeed named for a charming valley within the game’s world. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Cute fantasy themes go a long way. The shared lineage between science fiction and fantasy is on full display there.

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

My team and I have been working on Fantasy Strike for almost a year and half now. It's a fighting game featuring the same characters as my Yomi card game and it's unusually easy to play. Here's our new forums for Fantasy Strike. We'll add more characters, online play, more game modes, and a bunch more as we continue development.

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Sirlin

APRIL 1, 2015

The third Fantasy Strike Expo will take place June 5th-7th 2015 near the San Francisco airport. It's a tournament series and casual play event showcasing the Fantasy Strike tabletop games. Come compete, watch, and make new friends with other Fantasy Strikers. There's also a chance to try out Codex, still in development.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. This article , in particular, from Nintendo Power, I have a distinct memory of reading and being totally transfixed by the concept of the world of Final Fantasy 1. (I A cool, fun game.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

” The team sought to break away from traditional sci-fi and fantasy genres, finding inspiration in gaslamp fantasy—a style that blends nineteenth-century history with magical elements. Survival Systems The development of the ambitious title also comes with its fair share of challenges, Flynn admits. “An

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It's a 2020-vintage roguelike, which means: A bunch of rooms with fights. I really admire the confidence of the developers. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 23, 2024

The developers expect over forty hours of gameplay with three large areas to explore and more than hundred different enemies to fight. It provides a Mantra to follow throughout the entire development process,” explains Basile. The look of the game has been a very challenging part of the development process.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2024

The developers expect over forty hours of gameplay with three large areas to explore and more than hundred different enemies to fight. It provides a Mantra to follow throughout the entire development process,” explains Leontii. The look of the game has been a very challenging part of the development process.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 3, 2023

I think “the developers vision, as talked about by game hobbyists” usually means whatever the particular game hobbyist likes or believes in most. This oversimplified fantasy is where the imagined “developers’ vision” idea usually comes from. ALT In reality, the developer vision for the game necessarily changes because it has to.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc. Right now, in addition to my podcasts, I have three main game development projects in the works. Instead.it's fun.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Yomi was "a fighting game in card form" that I made before making the actual fighting game Fantasy Strike. Now, Yomi 2 is a re-imagining of that fighting-card-game concept. It's very expensive to develop, and I've really gone far beyond my ability to fund it already.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With a love of sci-fi and fantasy, he decided to pursue a career in the film and game industry where he could explore these realms. To paint fantasy illustrations for Wizards of the Coast has been a lifelong goal, and here is an opportunity to learn from someone who has! Please explain a bit about your role as a freelance illustrator.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. Logically, the next step was to hand over the reins of the channel to some of these talented developers directly.

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Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

It takes place in a fantasy-themed world and presents the gameplay through a third-person viewpoint. The developers receive critical acclaim with the praise for introducing the smooth fantasy setting and the evolution of the Souls Formula. Furthermore, keep in mind that you can’t craft when fighting enemies.

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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!

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. I’m playing through Final Fantasy VII Rebirth now (which I am loving) and it’s very clear in that game, whether you are in Outside , Dungeon or Town , pretty much at all times.

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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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Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

JRPGs became their own genre in part because of the conventions Japanese game developers followed. Western developers emulated the style, so the industry slapped the JRPG label on them and we called it a day. The latter began as an RPG, I understand, but evolved into being more of a sandbox fighting simulator. That’s fine.

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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! Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

DOS games were those developed under this operating system. An upgrade to WarCraft, Tides of Darkness provided a number of advanced features, including fighting over sea and air (not just on land). As the last surviving marine sent to stop the demons, players must fight to keep them from destroying everything. The Ultimate Doom.

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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. Second, quest development is linear on the map. This genre is getting marginalized in the West.

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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. As the developers say, Far Cry 6 is a story about revolution. The developers studied the music of Cuba, the culture, and history of the Liberty Island.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. For example, games like the Final Fantasy series, where you can still be completing the tutorial even 10 hours into the game. We have human characters fighting against time anomalies in a Victorian-era setting. Don't forget about calendar holidays.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In this episode of Gamecamole, we will investigate Cookie Run: Kingdom from the South Korean developer Devsister, a card battling RPG mobile game that became a cultural phenomenon in 2021. The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc.

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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. The Danish veteran developer rose to new heights with help from its distinctly bold ad creative. Jam City hold it stable with the power of a large catalog as the new games fail to scale. Ad creative is also the topic of Prediction 2.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Video games function best as power fantasies. Not all games are power fantasies, and not all gamers want that. What Do We Mean By "Power Fantasy"? Power Fantasy" is usually used as a pejorative term. In other words, all video games take place in Fantasy. (In They are power fantasies. Art is a slippery thing.

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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. Development Making a game free-to-play is no small thing. 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. I’ll explain why this is a landmark for the genre.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2024

Video games are no stranger to the power fantasy of a lone hero who single-handedly turns the tides of war and saves the day, world, or universe. And every enemy you down makes an exponentially more threatening reply from the warring factions, who might take a small break from their own fights to hunt you down.”

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

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. You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. But not really.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nothing is more likely to bait me into getting in a useless online slapfight than an indie developer crapping on video game fans. I'm a broken record about this because the greatest asset of indie game developers is the love from gamers. We are humble toymakers, and that is a powerful archetype. There are 6 levels.) So I dunno.

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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. You can turn on the tap and choose from 73 different flavors of Medieval Fantasy Content. But there was no political obligation to like or hate Generic Fantasy Product made by a Trillion Dollar Global Conglomerate.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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! Final Fantasys end with god-killing because that's what changing your life requires! Take that, god!

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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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