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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Then I write down everything I consider relevant into spreadsheets to compare them all. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. I write everything down and spend some time trying to find alternative paths. In which time period is it set?’

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. In War Co. , Make it feel unique. drawn by James Masino.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I don't want to write a review. Is that new mechanic fun? 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. Its flaws are interesting flaws.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic. Turn-based mechanics and an RPG flavor round off the experience. You can find the takeover recordings on our YouTube.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Fighting games like MK1 (Mortal Kombat 1) are always special due to their extremely crazy gameplay mechanics and stunning visuals. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions, write them down in the comment box. Is the new Mortal Kombat 1 stuck on the loading screen forever? However, it has solutions.

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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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership. Fighting Existential Dread.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This deconstruction will cover: The game’s core loop Why having chosen a basic match-3 mechanic was a safe bet What other games have tried The game’s features and to which kinds of players it caters How time-limited offers and events are run successfully. Making a puzzle game doesn’t mean you can make the mechanics themselves a puzzle.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In the trailer, you can tell that these two siblings are fighting a lot. Sometimes it’s not always that and the siblings get along, but I’m using my own experience to write Will and Samantha’s stories. . There won’t be any huge mechanics to show in the game, but a little nice story for you to enjoy.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Make sure the writing is readable and simple to read and use labels and icons that are clear and succinct. For example, acceptance criteria may state that tank fighting mechanics function as intended in 98% of test encounters. It is crucial to make sure that your UI is simple to use and comprehend, especially for newbie gamers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Coin Master truly innovated on a core Casino mechanic by making random chance just one block in the core loop, not the only block. Playtika, Aristocrat, Scientific Games and Huuuge Games continue to fight to hold their market leader positions. Result: CORRECT - As can be seen in all the mechanic innovations above.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture. Failing that (gets blasted in a fight?

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. You can and likely should use some, or even most of these (although in my opinion, we definitely need to ditch the “sprawling vista” – I’ll write an article on that someday).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While writing this post, this news article went live. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”. Need we say more. Source: PocketGamer.biz. So, where are the market leaders going?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

gatcha mechanic, piggy bank, etc.). As Tzuo writes, “instead of thinking about reseller margins and unit sales, [companies are] thinking about subscriber bases and engagement rates.” It’s important to move away from the mindset that subscriptions are just an auto-renewal mechanism for discounted IAP. The easy answer is wrong.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Sky Mavis was valued at $3B; keep in mind that Sky Mavis owns 21% of the fully diluted AXS token supply, which once fully unlocked will be worth over $7 billion based on prices at the time of this writing. On the other hand, Axie Infinity mashes familiar turn-based gameplay with a Hearthstone-like card battler mechanic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I'm currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves. I love that quest.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. Board Data Let’s begin by creating a ScriptableObject that can live as a project asset and hold all the information we will need to represent a board for our combatants to fight upon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Hay Day Pop is Fishdom meet Hay Day with a tile blast mechanic. Also, the lack of narrative in a game like this makes it a bit boring and mechanical: there’s no silver lining behind what you’re doing. It's basically all that Ilkka Panaanen talks about in interviews and writes about on his blog. It’s just not a great game.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Since I write a bit about the Wicked movie I’m putting this image at the top to make the thumbnails for this article more appealing. I played for a while, had to read a guide online to understand the game mechanics, restarted, and won pretty easily. Or far, far less. We’ll find out. It's a tough game. There are 6 levels.)

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Nobody could write Asteroids now. You can still get by if you're writing a shorter single-player game. However, if you're writing an ARPG or looter shooter like Diablo 4 and your business model depends on a dedicated core of 1000 hour addict players? The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. That's the loop.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 19, 2024

Pay attention to your writing, developers. Like, you need their help, but they immediately make it clear they won't fight for free. Then the precious, limited time and words could be used for plot mechanics and exposition. It takes lots of care- careful writing, good direction, and skilled actors. Which is all good.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. MMOs are mainly popular in the East and until writing of this article MMOs continued steady decline in the West. 4 A billion dollar fighting franchise will launch in 2020. Same Studio.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Building the interface for designers to tweak combat-related parameters to create specific fights (e.g.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

But before you continue, I’d like to make a disclaimer: As you know, I always try to offer an exhaustive and impartial assessment of the games I write about. What it does is summon friendly units that are the ones fighting. This consumable item mechanic is the same in Squad Busters, which speaks of knowledge sharing between the teams.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I thought the writing was good (great, for a videogame) but the actual combat I found to be very annoying; real time button mashy combat where the enemies have gigantic health bars resulted in my hand literally aching after beating one boss. The Good The writing starts off incredible. The opening cutscene literally made me cry.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++. When working with Unreal, users don’t require deep knowledge of codes or even a basic understanding of how to write them. The easy-to-learn and write C# coding language and the overall workspace layout make the difference.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

My predictions below relied on the premise that good writing would basically force some events to happen, and I was thrown by a loop by the, well, not good writing. As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left.

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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. Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

Therefore, to correct this terrible misuse of the term, we will look at what “roguelike” or “roguelite” or even “Rogue” actually mean, as well as diving into some concrete examples of how roguelike elements and mechanics have been used in mobile games in China lately. source: Wikipedia).

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