The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one. It's a 2020-vintage roguelike, which means: A bunch of rooms with fights. I'm getting over a flu and can't work up the energy to write a proper article with paragraphs and stuff, so I'll experiment with a quicker, looser format.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Why did they always have to be about fighting?” She explains, “Creativity ended the minute high school began, you had to do things a certain way and the only room for creativity was in writing English essays.” Even though high school limited creative outlets, her love for writing shone through.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

Alas, I feel compelled to write about it. It's a hard thing to write about. But I have a whole lot of my own personal skin in this game, and I've been writing and speaking on this exact topic for a long time. I've Been Writing About This For a Long Time Who the hell am I anyway? It's painful. Lost livelihoods. Lost homes.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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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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Game Industry News

MARCH 9, 2024

Homura is a very broken girl, who is fighting impossible odds against insurmountable foes, but her meeting the Kurosakis is a factor that no one could account for. For those unfamiliar with Madoka Magica it’s a pretty dark and grim series, and what occurs in this Fic is at times just as dark.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Then I write down everything I consider relevant into spreadsheets to compare them all. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time! I write everything down and spend some time trying to find alternative paths.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

At the time of writing, 21 of the Japanese top 200 grossing titles are based on anime and manga properties, including the likes of Umamusume, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Jujutsu Kaisen, Fist of the North Star, Bleach, and many more. How will this collaboration boost monetization?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” “The first four years were almost absolute happiness.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Think long and hard about how much you want the game to fight back against the players. Be direct when writing rules. Use present tense, active voice, and second person when writing rules. Consider How Much Challenge You Want Your Game to Have. Rules are the primary way to add constraints (or rather, difficulty) to the game.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 8, 2024

We are all fighting each other for a tiny and shrinking amount of potential exposure. You are fighting them for press coverage. As I write this, we are at Very Positive on Steam. It gets me off my figurative butt and keeps me writing. After all, while indie developers like to pretend we're a family, it's still a business.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I don't want to write a review. That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights). Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

At the time of writing this article, about 6% of board games listed on board game have cooperative play. If you are constantly running around and fighting disease, especially if that entails direct or charter flights, it will be much harder to reach a research station and find a cure to each disease. You know what I’ve noticed?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. As you scroll, you notice people write reviews in a way that implies the balanced nature of the asymmetrical design is surprising. So what exactly is Root ? Many games have come and gone on Kickstarter. .”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. billion last year.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

It gives you a chance to strategize, interact with your opponents, and write your destiny. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP. Sign 3: the mechanic conflicts with other tested and liked mechanics.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Great art, great music, good writing. I was going to write “too long”, but there is no correct length for an RPG. Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. It’s this and Octopath Traveler 2 I’m most excited to play next. Bad Pacing.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We know this in game development, in code, in art, in writing – you can’t get it right on the first try. We don’t fear refactoring, or redoing a sketch, or re-writing a paragraph or even a chapter – nor do we find failure in it. What new insights have you gained that allow you to feel this regret?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

It may start as a feature to ‘walk through’ the design, where that documentation is immediately obsolete as I write it. That is where the focus shifted somewhat from the technical aspects of game development to the creative aspects of story, writing, characters etc. Also, I chat with other game devs occasionally.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2018

Anxiety more or less hijacks your body and makes you ready to take action – the proverbial fight or flight. Maybe you need to write press releases or make a list of local game stores to contact. That boost of adrenaline can be channeled into productivity. Perhaps you’re anxious for a good reason.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Obviously, the Ice Dungeon is too big for a single task, so we break it down into smaller sub-tasks like "Build the boss fight for the Ice Dungeon", "Build the layout for the Ice Dungeon", "Build the regular encounters for the Ice Dungeon", and so on. Larger tasks like "Build the Ice Dungeon level" are assigned to the Ice Dungeon level owner.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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. By using my own work as an example, I hope you can read their original write-up with a concrete context and use their lessons to make an incredible game of your own.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been working extremely hard this year on Spellstorm (among other projects) – so much so that I sort of forgot to write something about it here on my blog, I’ve realized! I did write this piece over at its BoardGameGeek page, so do check that out to begin with, if you haven’t already: [link].

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help. To get that feeling, you need to know how fighting works, so you HAVE to find the tutorial. Apparently, the Game of Thrones dude helped write Elden Ring’s … um … “story”?

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the parents fight their way through the crawl-space, attic, clock, and extra-planer wonderlands in their house, you will hear them whine, complain, and deliver constant passive-aggressive insults. It skips from action to pvp games to puzzles to boss fights with blinding speed. It's great writing. It's writing.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Later that evening, he sits at his desk to write a letter and hears a familiar chirp. For Raffi, though the work she’s doing is important, it’s incredibly draining as she has to fight her own addiction every day as well as her frustration with not being able to do enough to prevent a possible use of these missing weapons.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

There used to be an option to use hero skins from the main MOBA game on the Magic Chess mode’s hero characters that fight on the chess board, but this option was removed. It was a great way to make one of the main monetization drivers of the game feel even more valuable and expose players to them even further.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I think this is important for creators to remember: your story is how you write it and it can change. is about scavenging the remnants of a very, very old war and using them to fight in an endless cycle of retaliation. A typical writing technique. Such a waste of human potential! Dylan: Hahaha, yes, I know that exact process.

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Real Programming

JANUARY 15, 2024

This way, students don’t need to fight with each other to be heard or struggle to get their teacher’s attention. Each coding language has its own rules and syntax, and when you learn a coding language, you’re exercising the same underlying muscle used to speak and write in conventional languages.

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Game Global

MAY 21, 2021

The fight to raise the level of quality is mainly played in the information field. Simultaneously, Gérard is able to sit next to the writing teams and witness the magic happen, getting the best of both worlds. Sharing the right information is key to ensure translation quality.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While this choice represents the heart of what Trek is, it does make writing for the franchise more difficult. Jankom Pog reveals hidden writing, which Gwyn identifies as the term for Solum. Zero fights the Borg but is eventually taken over as the Collective capitalizes on their fear of causing harm.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

. “Low and Alone are each equipped with their own iconic items that will allow you to solve various puzzles and defend yourself against the new and dangerous challenges that await you,” writes Bandai Namco’s Maya Ziani on PlayStation Blog. Now, I had at the very beginning in a bracket for every action that says, ‘if/when.’

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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

In this report, I had expected to write about sales numbers and piracy rates but given the series of mind-boggling events this past week, this will have to wait a little. Welcome to the surprising second part of our Android release reports. If you missed part one, you can catch up on it here. from over two thousand players.

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Gamesbrief

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I am fighting the urge to write it off as “Ponzi-nonsense” or “ridiculously overvalued” or “not working in any useful way yet” I think all of those things are true. Which means that there is a third transformational event in my career. But for the first time, I don’t understand it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The twin-stick shooter requires you to keep track of and fight the ever-closing game windows while evading enemies. You can find the takeover recordings on our YouTube. Windowkill Another twist on gaming directly on a desktop came in the form of the action roguelike Windowkill.

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