The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. Restrictive terrain. Unless actually fighting a boss fight. Variety of Encounters The player is hopefully spending a lot of time out in the field, trashing bozos and collecting loot. That's the loop. The move part is always boring, and looting should always be fun.

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Games Fighting Fantasy Art 81

Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

And basically EVERY SINGLE FIGHT is: dodge roll their moves, then counter attack with all your stuff. But it really doesn’t matter much what skills you take, it changes almost nothing, because there just isn’t much mechanical terrain in this game. That’s it. That’s about it!

Fantasy 105

Fantasy Fighting Terrain Games 105

Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Consider the case of Fortnite, which started as a game about building forts while fighting off waves of zombies. With Offworld Trading Company, because the game had random maps, each game started with a short exploration phase where you scan the map and found your colony with only part of the terrain revealed.

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Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Build 80

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. Not universally so, to be sure, but grind tends to be more of a roguelite thing. Architecture.

Point and Click 52

Point and Click Mechanics Feature Open World 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

I won’t go in-depth here since many others have explored this psychological terrain in much more detail but I will use some existing taxonomies like the Gamer Motivation Model from Quantic Foundry to illustrate my point. Players get matched with another player’s team to fight an AI-controlled battle against it.

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Puzzle Feature Build Balance 52

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

So I reimagined them yet again, taking into account their unique targeting mechanics and what that means when fighting other bots. Kinetic projectiles also light up targets (including terrain) due to the impacts, and at the start of this battle you can see two mechanical machines fall silent after being disabled.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). Failing that (gets blasted in a fight? one of the potential “encounters” is another Terminal nook containing a new “Download(Registry)” hack with an even more extreme effect, revealing all terrain, security locations, and even item caches.

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Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

Filmustage

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The centurion and his men must fight their way through hostile territory and battle barbarian tribes in order to complete their mission. The landscapes become an integral part of the narrative, reflecting both the perilous terrain and the indomitable spirit of the characters. Centurion" is a gritty and realistic historical action film.

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Film Cinematics Racing Entertainment 78

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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Pixel Film Art Prototyping 130

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. The grand scene).

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Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics 52