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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

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. No amount of playtesting is ever enough, he says.

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The Story of Battlebit Remastered with Max Fink (theliquidhorse)

Game Dev Unchained

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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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

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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