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 26, 2024

I’ve done some indie filmmaking which I then thought was the most ridiculous amount of work any one person could ever do. I have a small group of indie dev contacts over discord, or in very rare cases I’ll post on public forums to get some insight or feedback, but that’s usually for technical issues.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. To dig a solid fantasy out of that ‘omelette’, we found ourselves essentially relying on a good ol’ helping of subtractive design.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 5, 2023

On one end: Video games tend to work best as a power fantasy , a source of emotional pleasure and fulfillment for the player. This game needs to be wish-fulfillment power fantasy. Some want to think of video games as not just good fun and power fantasies, but High Art as well. This is a Power Fantasy. This can even sell!

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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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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Each chapter had exactly one very memorable, hateable villain to fight. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games.

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Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

It is an indie offering, so like most things VR, it is the indies who are blazing the trail. The game that should make you feel like a badass adventurer in a fantasy world ends up making you feel like a mute klutz wearing oversized mittens. Hopefully that’ll be fixed this week. That’s fine. The three Fs.

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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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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!

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Thanks to groundbreaking technology advancements, developers can now take advantage of cutting-edge software and game engines which enable them to create fantasy worlds in video games. Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. What Are The Pros Of The Unity Game Engine?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. In a fantasy RPG (even one of mine), you are threatened by an enemy, THEREFORE you get your sword. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer. Now … Wait. What was this game about again?” You do the same thing.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A fight of a single ship vs. a single ship took about an hour once you got used to the game. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. My secret power was that I, being a weirdo, actually read the rules and could quickly recall all the weird abilities my ship had.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 29, 2025

I wanted to talk about the way he approached fantasy, my area of interest. The overwhelming desire for this ability to communicate your own vision is what really defines "indie" to me. The town is constantly beset by monsters, and humans must fight them off. He spent a lot of time out in the wilderness. Give up marketing.

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