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How do you go about setting time limits when relevant? Does someone just play through the section and set it? Playtesting? Do you put together some formula?

Ask a Game Dev

A long fight should feel like a protracted fight and the time limit should reflect that. A short fight should feel like a sudden burst with a lot of pressure to finish it quickly. After we set our estimate, we playtest it to see how it feels.

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A New Era of Fighting Games

Sirlin

Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." It's clear that we're cut from the same cloth and have similar experiences with competitive fighting games. Did you hear the news?

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

But the process doesn’t end there, and usually I keep discovering things that make me go back and forth and iterate, playtest, iterate, refine, playtest, iterate… I definitely recommend getting feedback from external playtesters at each step.” “I What’s the biggest lesson learned from this project?

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7 Lessons from Monopoly for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

There is some bitter truth behind the joking that Monopoly makes families fight. Watch your playtesters’ reactions. With so many issues, it seems unlikely that Monopoly was thoroughly playtested. At the very least, it wasn’t playtested to modern standards. That’s not how family games are meant to go!

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new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

Radiator Blog

They are still key areas for gameplay with major fights. To honor the map's nonlinear multiplayer heritage, I try to support multiple nonlinear solutions since you can improvise different routes / tackle fights in different orders: Snipe the Spawns from the bridge, maybe with Lightning or Grenades (expensive) or with all your shotgun ammo.

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10 Elements of Good Game Design

Brand Game Development

If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different. 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. This seems obvious, but never lose sight of it.

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Introducing: Yomi 2

Sirlin

Yomi was "a fighting game in card form" that I made before making the actual fighting game Fantasy Strike. Now, Yomi 2 is a re-imagining of that fighting-card-game concept. These are updated pretty often based on feedback and playtesting from patrons.