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Solo developer Voidmaw on creating Katanaut: “Done is better than perfect”

PreMortem.Games

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. As a one-person team, he embraces both the creative freedom and the intense challenges that come with solo development.

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

PreMortem.Games

Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration. Carlsen: “When Jakob and I founded the company, we did that first Coccon prototype over the course of 3-4 months. Cocoon’s development journey spanned a challenging 6.5

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How Rubber Duck Games developed a boss fight in Evil Wizard

Unity Blog

In this guest blog, the Rubber Duck Games team breaks down the journey to developing a boss fight for Evil Wizard – from design and prototyping to animation, testing, balancing, and finalizing the visual effects.

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A Little Something

Grumpy Gamer

Fight if you want, don't if you don't and it's equally as fun but it affects the narrative. I posted some previous screenshots of this prototype, but since then I've ripped out all the tile graphics and started over with a much simpler (almost icon) art style. I want to do it more in a normal choose-your-own-playstyle way.

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A Little Something

Grumpy Gamer

Fight if you want, don’t if you don’t and it’s equally as fun but it affects the narrative. I posted some previous screenshots of this prototype, but since then I’ve ripped out all the tile graphics and started over with a much simpler (almost icon) art style.

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Staying alive is all the victory you can hope for in The Forever Winter by Fun Dog Studios

PreMortem.Games

And every enemy you down makes an exponentially more threatening reply from the warring factions, who might take a small break from their own fights to hunt you down.” Players take on the role of scavengers, or scavs, that have no allegiance to the fighting factions. They’re a mere mouse in a maze, scrounging for scraps.

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Ascent of Ashes dev switches to Godot halfway development “Not as chaotic as Unity”

PreMortem.Games

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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