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Some Scattered Thoughts About Hades

The Bottom Feeder

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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The RPG Report, and the worst things in RPGs

Keith Burgun

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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Solo dev Lincoln McCulloch’s all-consuming journey to develop Dungeons & Kingdoms

PreMortem.Games

He was working as a software developer while also making independent films and playing in a band before McCulloch turned all his time and attention to game development. I knew plenty of software devs, even some that were making games, but they worked for game companies. Now, it totally consumes him. “There are no days off.

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Become a Patron on Patreon?

Sirlin

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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Digital Illustration Course: Student review, career journey, & advice

CG Spectrum

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! What good would that be in a fight? Beowulf by Oliver.

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Tips For Writing a Video Game Story That WORKS

The Bottom Feeder

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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Stunt supervisor: Fairy behind the scenes

Filmustage

Stunt coordinator Katie Rowe (link to the IMDb profile ) shared with us how crucial the pre-production stage is and script breakdown in particular (you may also be interested in reading Top 7 Best film production management software 2022 ). Captain Marvel” (2019) is a very cool example of the combination of Wires & Turning Fork.

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