Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Over the last few years, I have went through a lot of the Final Fantasy series. I have recently beat 5, 9, 10, 13, 13-2, Remake and Rebirth (which I reviewed here), and I also played a lot of almost every other non-MMO mainline entry in the series (in the distant past I have also beaten final fantasies 1, 4, 6, and 7), plus direct sequels.

Fantasy 105

Fantasy Fighting Terrain Games 105

Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

So I divided the bumpy terrain into quadrants, with big tree roots gating each section. It helps supplement the stealth fantasy in a game with basically no stealth mechanics. The tree fantasy meant it all had to feel organic and continuous with lots of curves and slopes.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Fantasy Fighting Terrain 130

The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, it will include one of most requested features that the previous lesson was missing – tiles of different terrain types, and how that can affect move cost. In addition, the pathfinding rules for Pathfinder are far more complex and varied than those found in games like Final Fantasy Tactics.

Tile 52

Tile Terrain Scripting Asset 52

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.

Cutscenes 52

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics 52

The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Restrictive terrain. The Power Fantasy This is a fantasy. Why does a player expend hundreds of precious hours of life to get lost in your fantasy? A thousand hours of looter shooter game can't rely on story, so the player must be made to feel good with the game mechanics. There are a MILLION ways to do this.

Games 85

Games Fantasy Fighting Art 85

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. So I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that "learned" how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation.

Simulation 130

Simulation Art Internet AI 130