Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Whenever an NPC is about to dump backstory and exposition on you, they'll ask you to take a seat. During big long quest chains, there are periodic quest stages where you have to wait 1-2 in-game days before checking in with the NPC again. Diegetically, the NPC has to prepare a machine or potion, or get supplies, or whatever.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In such situations, we can potentially provide an NPC healer or other environmental elements like interactables or consumables with cooldowns that provide enough healing for the fights. Our goal is usually to make healing and health management an additional task to be considered by the players during encounters, even while solo.

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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. Do you believe in the importance of live sacrifices? But also veganism?

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help. To get that feeling, you need to know how fighting works, so you HAVE to find the tutorial. They’ll still give you their money.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

It also doesn’t have to be stamina bars, it can just be about how fighting is done in farming games or talking to an npc. Anyways, no one talks about the stamina bar in farming games that much. And it needs to be talked about it more for new innovative game designs.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In the trailer, you can tell that these two siblings are fighting a lot. A very important NPC in the game. I wanted to show the relationship between the two siblings. Will is very adventurous and his sister, Samantha, is annoying to him. I would know because I have two younger brothers. It’s a vending machine.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

With Tiff working on a bunch of the water villages and pathways of the Dalamase, Level Designer Ian spent some time this sprint laying out the underground Cave level area that's home to a special, secretive NPC you'll meet in the Kristala demo. Have a look! Programming. link] Rigging / Animation.

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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. At all times, players should have some sense of how close they are getting to reaching that goal, and they should care about doing achieving it.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

Next, James tackled some of the effects that will be featured in the epic mini-boss fight for Lophi the Lost, including effects for Lophi's Teleport, Staff Parry, and Spear Slam maneuvers. What we can tell you is that the place beyond was once home to a prominent NPC you'll meet during gameplay.

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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. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. These dialogues, sounding more akin to whispering, usually take place among the crowds of NPCs who don't have names. Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level.

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