Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

From the nuances of technological advancements to the ideological tug of war between indie creators and corporate giants, the discussion spanned a variety of pertinent topics within the gaming industry. The conversation also addressed the concerns of indie developers struggling to preserve their unique vision amid growing corporate influence.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D This makes it ideal for fighting games, Metroidvanias, and RPGs. This makes it perfect for indie developers and cross-platform releases. Metroidvanias & Indie Games: Innovation Without Complexity Dead Cells and Cuphead prove that 2.5D merges the best of both worlds.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. This way, the game never stays in one specific gear for too long.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Having a solid, realistic plan is everything.”

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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.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2024

Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is a game by Swiss indie game studio Momo-Pi. They won Best Game at the Google Indie Games Festival for their debut game Persephone. The tactical action adventure has much going for it. It looks great, bright and colorful and has gameplay that is both taxing and entertaining. Well, players!

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture. But not really. The player never quite experiences these ideas in the game itself.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I have a lot of respect for solo indie developers, but I often struggle with the limitations and it is not what I want to be doing long-term. It’s used to both fight enemies and solve puzzles. Will you ever work in a team or is it only solo for you? Another unique point is the weapon. Playtest early.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

2nd Law: "Outside of 1 or 2 monster hits a year, no indie game will ever be heard of by more than 1% of gamers." Nothing is more likely to bait me into getting in a useless online slapfight than an indie developer crapping on video game fans. We are humble toymakers, and that is a powerful archetype. It happens. There are 6 levels.)

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AI Indy Games Agent 79

PreMortem.Games

MAY 27, 2024

Toronto, Canada based indie dev Thousand Stars Studio prides itself on being a culturally diverse studio. It’s up to the three heroes Vishva, Ramli, and Guru-ji to gain the trust of the villagers and unite everyone in their fight against the demons that are aiming to seize their precious heirloom, the almighty Celestial Glue.

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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. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

I've been writing indie (aka shareware) games as the nearly sole source of my family's income for 30 years. During those decades, I've written a ton about the indie business, for money and on my blog. My most popular article , written wayyy back in 2013, was about the creation of the Indie Bubble. And indie games!

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 15, 2024

were covered under the same rules as "Fighting men." Every group had their own homespun tangle of ways to actually run a fight. And amusing utility items that you use like two times and then die in a fight with 4 orcs because Rope of Climbing sucks. Basic D&D was its own separate rules system and went up to level 3.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Kenyan indie developer cherishes that early morning spark. He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. As a child, he was delighted by action-packed animations like Kung Fu Panda and was drawn to stick-figure animations, particularly for their captivating fighting scenes.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Please join us on our own little walk down 2023 memory lane. See you in 2024! The post So long 2023! Thank you for the great game dev stories appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 23, 2024

At the bottom, he’s going to fight an evil gumby with only a fire extinguisher.) You ever hear a gamer say how fighting in RPGs should be more REALISTIC? The problem with realistic combat is simple: If you get in a fight in Fringeworthy, you just die. (Also be sure to enjoy the art. The combat! We tried that.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. So, almost two years ago I decided to fully embrace the indie path and became a solodev.” The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

As part of the early organisational crew of Indie MEGABOOTH, I was running back and forth between the Vlambeer booth & my other responsibilities – which made me oddly anonymous as a developer to entire groups of people. The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

You can always make the numbers bigger, sure, but that's boring and leads to eternal fights. Looking at it, you can tell there's not going to be a lot of fighting. I know some contrarians will fight me here, but, if this is such a great idea, why do basically no modern games have traps like this? Here's the map to the dungeon.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

A Few Final Comments When a computer RPG has a very complex terrain system with lots of elevations, it becomes tempting to have every fight be complex with a spread of enemies at all sorts of different heights. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Also, casting fireball is fun. Nicely done.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

While Insult Sword Fighting is one of the first things people think of when they hear Monkey Island, I thought it seemed little tedious (but fun) as I played though it again. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I'd make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

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Puzzle Point and Click Fighting Animation 130

Interesting Choices

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Hokra is a 2v2 sports game where the teams are fighting over control of a single ball. To my knowledge, it isn't yet common for games to be commissioned in the way that works of art were commissioned by patrons throughout history. Yet that's exactly how Hokra , by Ramiro Corbetta (with audio by Nathan Tompkins), came to be.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Toronto, Canada based indie dev Thousand Stars Studio prides itself on being a culturally diverse studio. Its up to the three heroes Vishva, Ramli, and Guru-ji to gain the trust of the villagers and unite everyone in their fight against the demons that are aiming to seize their precious heirloom, the almighty Celestial Glue.

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Art Studios Content Indy 104

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. This way, the game never stays in one specific gear for too long.

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Puzzle Prototyping Art Communications 104

The Bottom Feeder

MAY 29, 2024

The Oracle, forever, sucks in a fight, but it is 100% able to predict that it will suck in a fight. Subscribe now Our newest indie role-playing epic, Geneforge 2 - Infestation , is now out! Some of them were cool and even got promoted to the main game. Barbarian, for example.) Some of them were very half-baked. It’s good!

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

While Insult Sword Fighting is one of the first things people think of when they hear Monkey Island, I thought it seemed little tedious (but fun) as I played though it again. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I’d make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

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Puzzle Point and Click Fighting Animation 130

Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) What Brings This To Mind, Part One I wrote a blog post about indie hit, Vampire Survivors, a very good and much loved game. is being able to summon hordes of disposable monsters to fight for you. Now it is time to decide who MUST love me.

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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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. But to smaller studios, the updated fee structure is a financial threat.

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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! Still, overall this was a very impressive achievement for just 3 indie developers. philosophy and logic!!

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight. Two problems with this.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Attendees from all corners of the continent -Nigeria to Ethiopia, Tanzania to Ghana, Benin to Rwanda, Sudan to South Africa, Senegal to Kenya, and even beyond, with the West Indies and France present- gathered to celebrate, connect, and learn from one another.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I was focused hard during this time on learning as much as I could about game design, focused on “efficiency” and elegance in design, which is what brought me to crunchy rulesets like those of designer Eurogames and the indie Rogue-likes-and-company world. Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights).

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