Rampant Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It was at once extremely satisfying to play exactly what I had once hoped for, and yet a glaringly obvious example of how VR is a revolutionary entertainment platform that demands a new approach to game design. It is still in early access, but I believe the entire game is fully playable in VR now.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

My name is Leonardo Veloso and I am a 3D artist working on TV broadcasting in Brazil, in my spare time I am a hobbyist game developer. Human Diaspora is a First-Person Shooter where the player must conquer the colony planet to save humanity. I am probably not alone on this one: Game Design.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Destiny 2 is a first person shooter (FPS) with action packed gameplay and an engaging narrative. You actually have a business to run, which in my opinion makes the game a lot more immersive because it requires a great deal of strategy beyond the moment to moment battles. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lesson 11: Game Difficulty Summary In this video, Aaron delves into the nuanced topic of difficulty in video games, emphasizing the role of a game designer in setting the difficulty level to align with the narrative and the intended player experience. The first-person shooters.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

In fact, their team took a lot of inspiration from games like CS:GO and other tactical shooters, such as Battlefield. The philosophy behind this approach was to create an experience accessible to those with lower-end hardware, similar to how Riot Games designed Valorant to run on minimal specs.

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Game Wisdom

AUGUST 8, 2023

How the FPS Genre Bounced Back Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" Part 4 of our look at the Shooter genre is all about how the singleplayer side came back in the 2010’s with the likes of Bulletstorm, Doom, and the early arrival of “Boomer Shooters” … The post How the FPS (..)

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. This game represents me as a developer, he says. Or try to make a game designed to be loved by every person in the world. I get excited to implement wacky ideas!

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Death is usually (a) game over, (b) rare, or (c) strongly penalized. This is where sports have solved a major game design problem: in most sports, defeated players do not die. So if tackles are like kills, and a high tackle count is for losers -- then in a sense, a rugby video game would argue that killing is for losers.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. So this post will focus on my read of the general game design and player experience.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City. Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called. From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. The Forgotten City (2021).

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

His debut game Unknown Number was the first game in what its creator Tom Keane called the ‘First Person Talkers’ genre. Now he’s ready to take talking games to the next level with his new project Dead Meat. But on a gameplay level, simply talking to a game is not inherently fun by itself.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

From time to time you’ll need to dock with space stations in order to upgrade your ship and buy and sell supplies, but for the most part you’ll experience the game through a first first person perspective. Vendetta online requires a lot of skill and quick reflexes if you plan on staying alive within this game world.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So author Reki Kawahara drew on his familiarity with the games of the day and their systems to create what he thought would be a super-cool virtual reality game. Once consumer VR hit in 2015, we discovered a lot about VR game design. But this is kind of a holy grail of game design for me, so I’d love to see it work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Many of the reviews of these earlier games took issue with a lack of content and frustrating first-person controls. 4 Freedom of Session Design Lastly and most importantly, TiMi does not restrict the player from playing the game as often or as long as they like.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, if you are going to try the weapon-break trick in your game, you MUST make sure the player has fun, workable, VARIED weapons to switch to. And if you are in a college studying Game Design? The Physics Engine A game's physics engine is one of those invisible things most players will never think about.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. So this game too is set in a dungeon -- a divine sex maze dungeon.

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