Fighting Game Design NPC 
Radiator Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) And as the Vestal, she administers the local election, and in this ancient Roman city only the male NPC citizens are allowed to vote.
Radiator Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.
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Yobob Games
AUGUST 12, 2022
The ideas give a new design tool for me to work with and it expands on the farming genre games. Usually game developers don’t give a lot of thought into stamina bars and how it can affect the characters and game design. Even adding another bar makes the game more complex. See what I’m saying?
The Bottom Feeder
MAY 11, 2022
It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. Fortunately, as long as the rest of the game is good, people will only complain. And honestly?
Radiator Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The high visual polish and stellar production values adorn a solid but predictable gameplay loop: you fight through dungeons with random rooms / enemies, collect resources, and bring them back to your hub to build up your village and its inhabitants. The cult of the game industry is most powerful of all. But also veganism?
Keith Burgun
JULY 29, 2022
Here’s a handful of good examples: Final Fantasy VII : you’re part of a terrorist organization that is doing a bombing mission to try and fight back against an evil empire. Setting that up properly is an effort in storytelling, a discipline all its own distinct from game design.
Radiator Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. In this situation, the NPC knows what you're here for and he wants it too, even if you kinda hate each other. Sometimes people have sex with someone they don't like.
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