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. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). Limited regen (e.g.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I played for a while, had to read a guide online to understand the game mechanics, restarted, and won pretty easily. 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. It's a tough game. Having played it twice. So I dunno.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. They just liked the mechanics and continued playing until the event had ended. Try different combos, too.

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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators!

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

The game boasts impressive graphics, unique gameplay mechanics, and a captivating storyline. The game’s innovative time mechanic adds a new dimension to the classic first-person shooter genre, making for a truly unforgettable experience. The game boasts stunning graphics and innovative gameplay mechanics.

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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! Programming.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The mechanism is a metal rod, on one side of which the actor is attached, and the stuntman himself is dressed in a green or blue suit and controls the ring at the other end. Many professional stuntmen, like Monique Canderton (link to the IMDb profile ), argue that it is impossible to replace the Wires mechanisms.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. I think this is a really bold move on the developer's part and also the most surprising feature that I've seen in a fighting game in years. Why is it called that?

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Although the Tactile team has several titles under their portfolio, the well-known swapping mechanic is not very common among their games. Especially with their two most recent titles Lily’s Garden and Penny & Flo , Tactile has been a stronghold for story-driven puzzle games with the collapse mechanic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The fantasy setting, unlike the modern combat setting of Puzzle Combat, is essential in tapping into this motivation.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. Not much else is said about the death mechanic in the other game worlds of the series. Now the real world date has caught up with the science fiction, as it always does.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I would have played it sooner, but I was on this huge Final Fantasy kick (which is still ongoing, to be honest). I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good. Let’s talk about that.

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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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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Unicorn Run also introduces flying powers and shooting mechanics to help you achieve higher scores, adding an extra layer of excitement to the gameplay. As a hard-core player, you can explore a rich fantasy world, engage in action, and rebuild a hub town while undertaking quests.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The biggest acquisition in the sub-genre happened last year, with Applovin acquiring Machine Zone - the company that made some of the most iconic top-grossing 4X games of all time (Game of War, Modern Strike, Final Fantasy: New Empire). Unlike with Sniper games, you could move and you were actually fighting other players.

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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. Behold, friends!

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

It’s conspicuously much effort spent on how he got his name, and worse than that, it involves a hokey time travel mechanic that seems have no place in the story. No, it’s there to teach us the story world’s rules for a mechanic that is actually central to the main story. It’s practically game mechanics in action.

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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. While the zoo theme was on the money just a few years ago, with the rise of the animal rights movement, building a prison for animals is arguably not something the majority of their target audience fantasies.

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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. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

In hindsight, we missed the mark in some areas, and nailed it in others Genre / Mechanic: I don’t believe abstract analogs in an crafting system works. My 4 / 5 ended up a 2 / 5] Target Demographic: We were wrong to assume our casual mechanics and style alone would bring in a female audience. So what ended up happening?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc. What was Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s secret to success?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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! Meeple Word Cloud of Game Mechanics. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players.

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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. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich. This genre is getting marginalized in the West.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

Such gameplay can be coupled with monetization mechanics like gacha. First, the mini game “DJ Contest” borrows mechanics from rhythm games. Gameplay: On Giant’s Shoulders Dislyte ’s gameplay is no different from any traditional CCG-RPG, such as Summoner’s War. Still, Dislyte made some “micro-innovation” for differentiation.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Final Fantasy VI Advance. Some would argue that this version of Final Fantasy was the absolute best, at least within the confines of the two-dimensional world. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Set within the Final Fantasy world, this action game had a combination of great stories and strategies for players to focus on.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

Therefore, to correct this terrible misuse of the term, we will look at what “roguelike” or “roguelite” or even “Rogue” actually mean, as well as diving into some concrete examples of how roguelike elements and mechanics have been used in mobile games in China lately. source: Wikipedia).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Core Battle: Fighting on Auto-Pilot. Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game. At the bottom of the screen (see “2” above) your recently used team will automatically be fighting an endless mob of enemies. This is a major appointment mechanic, driving the player to come back each day.

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