The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

I wanted to write a third and final article about Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3 for short), a really great game that most people have moved on from, but I want to talk about the most important part of any RPG: LOOT. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Making money writing helps the self-esteem.

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Fighting Writing Puzzle Terrain 98

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. At the time of writing, the game contains 182 heroes spanning 5 rarity levels and 10 classes.

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Puzzle Feature Build Balance 52

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 The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance.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

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

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The scope of this rebalance is way too large to cover in its entirety, and while I don’t plan to write about every aspect, we’ll be looking at the broad strokes and pick out some representative examples here and there. Categorical Approach. The biggest change there was simply yet more significant damage buffs.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Nobody could write Asteroids now. You can still get by if you're writing a shorter single-player game. However, if you're writing an ARPG or looter shooter like Diablo 4 and your business model depends on a dedicated core of 1000 hour addict players? The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. That's the loop.

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Games Fantasy Fighting Art 83

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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