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new Quake map: Daughter Drink This Water

Radiator Blog

As you progress through each fight, you gradually unlock more of the map, until the big finale fight that uses the entire layout. Then I used another tool called OBJ2Map to convert the polygons into Quake-style brushes. And that's when some players will recognize the map as Hang 'Em High from Halo 1.

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Fantasy Strike patch notes, August 2016

Sirlin

Thank you to all our patrons for supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. If a really accessible, easy-to-play fighting game that's still tournament-quality appeals to you, please support us. The dragon’s character model is an unfinished, low polygon version. Grave now has over 3x the polygons he had before.

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Solo dev Lincoln McCulloch’s all-consuming journey to develop Dungeons & Kingdoms

PreMortem.Games

The combat is great and the campaigns are fun, but after a bunch of huge fights I wanted to go back to my village, chat with my villagers and relax. It made sense to me that lower polygon models and mostly solid color textures would make things easier when the time comes to tackle optimization.

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Web3 Gaming Consolidates to Survive

Deconstructor of Fun

Another example of changing priorities and consolidating resources can be seen in the partnership between Polygon and IMX. Polygon has a huge ecosystem of games, art collections, big retail brands (like Starbucks), and so many more. Forcing your players to download a launcher for just one game can only go so far.

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Game companies win a powerful new way to punish harassers

Game Daily

But a new ruling against a racist harasser could mark a boundary in the fight against toxicity in gaming. “This one is special,” he wrote, as originally reported by Polygon. They found safety in anonymity, and in the sheer volume of their confederate hatemongers. The outcome was just so damn important.”

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. In-game models used in the cutscenes are obviously not suitable for close-up cutscenes in terms of texture or polygon quality. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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Sony’s State of Play 2022- Delving into the Exclusivity  

iXie gaming

Bandai Namco had previously teased the release of the new entry in the long running fighting series as we get our first impressions on Tekken 8. The dynamics in-game and in-combat would be very tough to get right as swords and guns do not usually work in tandem with each other in a fighting game. Like a Dragon Ishin.