Sirlin

OCTOBER 4, 2018

We just put a new feature in Fantasy Strike that’s notable because it’s never been done before. The concept of who recovers first after a move hits or is blocked is called “frame advantage” in fighting games. The concept of who recovers first after a move hits or is blocked is called “frame advantage” in fighting games.

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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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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. Discuss Fantasy Strike Expo on the forums. Announcement!

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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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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. Even in its early prototype state, it was. Here's our discord (text) chat server.

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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. Cute fantasy themes go a long way. I don’t know what exactly it is about fantasy themes, but board gamers love them. The shared lineage between science fiction and fantasy is on full display there.

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Keith Burgun

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the last six months, I guess partially because I was doing a bit of traveling, but also partially because I got a Retroid handheld and a Steam Deck (both of which are phenomenal, game-changers for game-playing, for me at least), I’ve been on this crazy Final Fantasy kick. Let me know what you think!

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Sirlin

JANUARY 10, 2016

In this episode, I discuss an advanced kind of fighting game AI for the upcoming Fantasy Strike fighting game (playable builds for that available for higher tier patrons, btw). This podcast series is part of my thank you to all those who support my various projects on Patreon.

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game. This podcast explains what Fantasy Strike is all about. We cover the high concept about making a fighting game more accessible from top to bottom than anything else we've seen, the specific game mechanics we chose to accomplish that, and the resulting dynamics of how it plays.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. There's a gamer joke about how every JRPG ends with killing god, and the emerging Western millennial equivalent is to end with the final boss of capitalism. But not really.

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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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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! Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Fantasy Strike is an interesting case study in game balance for an asymmetric game. In some games I’ve worked on, I’m one of the experts (Fantasy Strike, Street Fighter HD Remix, Puzzle Fighter HD Remix). And in Fantasy Strike…the same thing happened again, almost. But…we did it.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 19, 2016

Thank you to all the patrons supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Our team is incredibly grateful. --There is now a smooth flow from character select -> stage select -> versus screen (the screen showing “Grave vs Jaina” before the fight starts).

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

To name just a few, these include Fortnite (Battle Royale), Top War (4X Strategy), Puzzles & Dragons (Match3), and Tower of Fantasy (MMORPG). Theyve already begun to sprout several direct competitors too, such as Wuthering Waves and Tower of Fantasy, both of which are performing admirably in their own right.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

To unlock each root gate to the next section, the player must fight their way into a little fort and press a big obvious flashing red button. It helps supplement the stealth fantasy in a game with basically no stealth mechanics. It wasn't really fun to fight on the actual tree branches.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Related articles: Baldur’s Gate 3 Cheat Engine: How To Use It Properly How to Fix Farming Simulator 15 Errors and Issues Farming Simulator 17 Crashes on Startup: How to Fix It In the realm of Cloud Meadow, where dreams take flight and fantasies come to life, cheats are your trusted companions on this unforgettable journey.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. “The I enjoyed what I was doing very much.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

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. Olivier Madiba recalls playing games on warm sunny afternoons at his grandmother’s home with a spark in his eyes. These are some of his fondest childhood memories.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 17, 2016

Thank you to all our patrons for supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. If a really accessible, easy-to-play fighting game that's still tournament-quality appeals to you, please support us. Although we're not ready to show the game publicly yet, we give our $25+ patrons new builds every month, the latest one is here.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It's a 2020-vintage roguelike, which means: A bunch of rooms with fights. 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. You get money to buy randomly selected upgrades.

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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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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In this latest Raw Game Design episode, I discuss how we might use advanced AIs in the Fantasy Strike fighting game, if we had access to some pretty great AI tech. I just wanted to mention the latest episode of that is up for patrons at the $10+ tier. All previous episodes of the series are there too.)

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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. Transdimensional portals Nightingale is a first-person, PVE, open-world survival crafting game played solo or cooperatively online.

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Indie DB

JUNE 8, 2023

For Evelyn II is a story-driven adventure RPG, taking place in the fantasy world of Aura, a place of magic and mysteries. Explore the world, upgrade your skills, gather resources, manage your troops and fight back the enemy by any means necessary.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Power Of Fantasy And Make-Believe To understand why the Deck is such an iconic creation, ask this question: What is the point of fantasy? Fantasy is a human universal. The "evil" races are a manifestation of the occasional need to fight for our survival, on an individual or national level. No hard feelings.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

On the other hand, why shouldn't our fantasy settings involve Mesoamerican and Andean influences? Any layout device that can break line of sight to stagger waves / structure a fight can function effectively as a closet. It echoes colonizer arguments about "savages" who "need" to be conquered. How do we do this right?

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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. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Codex was a huge hit at Fantasy Strike Expo, and is what most attendees played and talked about the whole time. Instead.it's fun.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As well as embarking on an epic Viking voyage and a wide variety of fights, players tend to a kingdom by growing crops and upgrading buildings with construction and management sim mechanics. As an example, Granblue Fantasy is an RPG with heavy social ements, while Puzzle & Dragons is a Match3 puzzle game.

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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. For the last four and a half years, I've been working on a sequel to Yomi.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In each level, you really have to strive for the perfect run through, bearing in mind you can lose an hour of progress by blowing the boss fight at the end. 🥹) Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. For example, Valbrace only lets you save at the end of a level.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Last and certainly not least, I plan to post a new playable version of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep fighting game (for the $25+ patrons). I also discuss some changes to the Tower add-on. Thanks again to all my patrons.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. Unless actually fighting a boss fight. The Power Fantasy This is a fantasy. Why does a player expend hundreds of precious hours of life to get lost in your fantasy? That's the loop. The move part is always boring, and looting should always be fun.

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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. Artistically speaking, we managed to re-create a believable world which makes you ‘feel’ Italy while having a healthy amount of fantasy to it.

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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. Artistically speaking, we managed to re-create a believable world which makes you ‘feel’ Italy while having a healthy amount of fantasy to it.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

FINAL FANTASY XVI – After playing a bunch more Kingdomheartslikes and getting more used to that, I’ve gotta say, this is a very well made Kingdomheartslike. Whereas if you compare that to something like Final Fantasy 13, there is a pretty central thing that’s being headed toward the entire time. Bad FIGHT pacing.

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We discuss "easy special moves" in fighting games. Examples from Guilty Gear, Soul Calibur 5, Smash Bros (including a plea for modders to make Sirlin a mod with simpler controls for Smash), Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 4, Rising Thunder, and Fantasy Strike. What is a game with "easy special moves" actually trying to do?

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