PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. 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. But that’s not all.

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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. The Seize the Bean prototype has little sugar cube pieces to tell its story. Dylan: This was our challenge in trying to flesh out appropriate mechanics for Seize the Bean’s wild and almost untame-able theme. Do not eat!

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Mechanics Art Games Puzzle 130

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. 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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Dev Playtesting Art Games 160

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.” Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity.

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Dev Development Feature Prototyping 118

PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.

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Console First person PC Mesh 104

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. Categorical Approach.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2025

As long as you have everything you need in your toolset, being a solo-dev means youre at least 3-5 times faster than any small-group fighting death by committee at every step of the way. I wrote the prototype in a weekend and knew it was a Good Enough mechanic to explore. And the biggest pitfalls?

Mechanics 104

Mechanics Dev Puzzle Games 104

Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Not long after that I started working on a game (then called City Draft) that would be strongly inspired by a few key influences: 7 Wonders for the mechanics and structure, Carcassonne for the idea of placing tiles in a grid, and SimCity for the theme. Militaristic neighbors can further invalidate strategies.

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Build Tile Point and Click Games 40

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay goals and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Production Evolution Having said all the above, achieving Archero’s design prowess is no simple task.

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Data Advertising Studios Games 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

Matches happen in a map shaped like a rounded island , where the player is supposed to move to the sides collecting resources to build their teams and fight opponents, and progressively move to the inner circles as the match progresses. What it does is summon friendly units that are the ones fighting.

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Beta Fighting Build Mobile 52

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Popular Games Made In Unreal Engine Fortnite Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and distributed as three different game modes using the same engine, so each one has similar graphics, art assets, and game mechanics. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. Unity also enables quick prototyping.

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Engine Engineering Game Engine Games 52

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues.

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Pixel Film Art Prototyping 130