PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

The collaboration extends to game mechanics and gameplay loops, where player feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the final product. ” The creative process for Chasmal Fear took a different route than their past games Mirror Forge and Alan Sharp, with a focus on establishing gameplay mechanics before delving into the narrative.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Once acquired, players could use these characters in battles but also interact with them through messages and other in-game social mechanics. Fly High Regardless of genre, most anime-based titles are monetized through gacha mechanics. There are even some anime games that focus on sports, like Haikyu!!

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

The following excerpt is from Games Speak through Mechanics, Not Rules (Dev Diary: 04/28/17). If you strip out all the mechanics that put obstacles in your players’ path, what’s left? The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics you need to have a functioning game. That’s a mechanic. Chess tells a story.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

Currently, our system is designed to address highly repetitive and mechanical content production problems, such as matching lip movements. It even helps writing the lines. Dao Si, AI Team Leader, at Nuverse is enthusiastic about the technology. He says it helps artists to free up their time and produce content more efficiently.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google “list of board game mechanics.” Write the first draft of your rules. Write down what works and what doesn’t. Write a 100-150 word story for your game. Write down anything you find that doesn’t reinforce the story you want to tell. Write down what works and what doesn’t. Play alone, as all players.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“When we test the game, we get a lot of praise for the voice acting and the writing. They’ve developed a vertical slice of Mind Diver containing the core mechanics and two areas, offering around 1.5-2 And don’t get me wrong, I am very proud of both of those as well. As for the future, Indoor Sunglasses has ambitious plans.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Increasingly successful or growing games are delivering on that promise with character driven, typically short scenario form writing eerily similar to a Desperate Housewives episode. Hexasort with its new matching mechanic executed so well, is an industry darling. They start with a completely different promise.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. At the time of writing, there are five special emotes in the game: Punch, Slide, Hug, and Banana. Tournament options in Stumble Guys.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

When Ahmetcan isnt busy crafting and designing killer features, youll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city. These games blur the lines between hypercasual simplicity and deeper, more engaging puzzle mechanics. Succeed in the market.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This book has probably taken more like two years due to the sheer scale of the task to write and design it.” Special Touches The production process doesn’t stop at writing and design. Author Richard Moss had long been interested in writing about the subject. “I

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

As I said last week , “rules regulate the way mechanics are implemented. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Be direct when writing rules. Rules are how we implement game mechanics. Use Present Tense, Active Voice, Second Person.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I like quests which turn out to be something completely different than you expect, and where the good writing/setup makes you forget that its a scripted event. Suddenly, I'm in a horror game and still it uses the mechanics from the general game. Not all spells were required due to different ways to win the game. I love that quest.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As repeated in my Year 10 review , I’ve wanted to continue the recent several years’ trend of a higher ratio of game vs. non-game work, implying a lower relative amount of community-facing work, e.g. writing articles, streaming, hanging out discussing mechanics, etc. This year I have been very much back.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. Dylan: This was our challenge in trying to flesh out appropriate mechanics for Seize the Bean’s wild and almost untame-able theme. I don’t ever want to proclaim this is more important than mechanics; it certainly is not.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 7, 2017

” Created traffic mechanic. 3: Nixed the traffic mechanic. Implemented construction mechanic. 4: Reduced board crowding and fiddliness of construction mechanic. For Highways & Byways , it looked like this: 1: First version of the game. 2: Split roads into “hard” and “easy.”

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Once the core engine and mechanics are in place, board games can be dragged down by easy-to-fix but hard-to-identify issues. I’d racked up a few plays on version I-3 of Highways & Byways , but changing Event Card discard rules is a big mechanic change, so I reset the count to zero.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2024

Even if it’s just for testing a small mechanic. In 2020 (during covid) I was also writing a short story that addressed many of the same themes of work he illustrated like The Bible, Paradise Lost, Divine Comedy. It gets lonely, your only friend being a dead artist from the 1800s.” What’s your creative process? “I

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

So, what sets our game apart is its blend of authentic ’90s rally racing experience with modern gaming mechanics. Ultimately, we decided to create our custom physics engine, using NWH Wheel Collider as a base for collisions and writing every part of car physics from scratch.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

” Inspired by the rising issue of pet abandonment, Cable wanted to write a script that demonstrates the complex and nuanced world of cat ownership. We wanted to have a mechanic to highlight that being a stray cat is not all fun and games. “We switched careers and went full-time into game development.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What started as a simple concept quickly turned into a game that challenges players with a mix of strategic depth and risk-reward mechanics. I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge.” I think we have a similar attitude about what ‘good game design’ is, mechanically.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 24, 2017

As I write this article, I’m going to assume this is your first board game, that neither your team members nor your publishing company are entered into the database, and that you have a Board Game Geek account. Use other listings as reference material when writing your description. No free text. No free text.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Themes create this story that make it easier for players to understand and interact with dry mechanics. Once I’ve got the core engine and mechanics of a game going, I like thinking of my game with various themes and seeing what fits. Re-theming is totally fine by me. After all, Highways & Byways is a gigantic map.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 14, 2017

That is the basis from which the mechanics of the game are born. The mechanics and rules of the game are meant to capture the openness, spontaneity, and pleasant tension of travel. I’m not so married to my ideas that I won’t murder mechanics. That is where the theme came from. It paid off.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Overall, it is a more moody atmosphere that lends a sense of dread, and this goes along nicely with the hostile game mechanics players will be up against. Is the game simplistic and easy to understand, or are mechanics obscure and complicated?

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 5, 2013

I was skeptical at first that it could blend so many different genres and game mechanics together, but it did so with ease.". I don't remember the last time I was so enamored by a puzzle game, but this one has me wanted to play even as I write this review.". Touch Arcade Hands On. Jay is Games. International House of Mojo. "I

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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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

” From Healer to Necromancer The inspiration for Necro Story came from a simple idea: take the mechanics of Healer’s Quest, where the player controls one character in a party, and apply it to a different role. But it was more than just the combat mechanics that intrigued him.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

You can’t protect mechanics, but you can definitely protect your brand name, lore, art, and other assets. You need to know how to write a contract. I won’t tell you exactly how to write a contract since that varies on where you live, what you’re doing, how many people are involved, and how much money is involved.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take. My course covers writing and animating for games, which I enjoy. She explains, “It is really time-consuming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting and designing killer features, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city. These daily missions do more than just offer rewards; they serve as an "appointment mechanic" that encourages habitual engagement.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the meantime, clarify fuzzy parts where necessary, write down their feedback, and keep playing. Other people will play your game for the first time. They won’t understand the rules. Eventually, you’ll have to edit the rules until they help them learn. Other players are likely to use strategies you wouldn’t expect.

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 4, 2013

I was skeptical at first that it could blend so many different genres and game mechanics together, but it did so with ease.” ” International House of Mojo “I don’t remember the last time I was so enamored by a puzzle game, but this one has me wanted to play even as I write this review.”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

Write them down. Now I’ve got it to where game development gets first priority and the most time, blog writing gets second priority and the second-most time, and everything else gets done when I have time. Write down what you’ve done wrong and be brutally honest. How will you know if you’ve done a good job?

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Cocos

JUNE 16, 2024

First time writing an article, feeling a bit rusty, haha. Here are some practical tips: Reorganize the Rendering Tree Without Affecting Logic: By decoupling the rendering tree from the game logic, you can achieve more flexible rendering without interfering with game mechanics. This allows for easier optimization and maintenance.

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Cocos

JUNE 16, 2024

First time writing an article, feeling a bit rusty, haha. Here are some practical tips: Reorganize the Rendering Tree Without Affecting Logic: By decoupling the rendering tree from the game logic, you can achieve more flexible rendering without interfering with game mechanics. This allows for easier optimization and maintenance.

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Culling Render Mechanics Writing 52

Cocos

JUNE 16, 2024

First time writing an article, feeling a bit rusty, haha. Here are some practical tips: Reorganize the Rendering Tree Without Affecting Logic: By decoupling the rendering tree from the game logic, you can achieve more flexible rendering without interfering with game mechanics. This allows for easier optimization and maintenance.

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Culling Render Mechanics Writing 52

Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

In this article, I’m not going to write about how to specifically word a pitch. ” I write about this in length in People are Weird, Markets are Weirder…Especially with Board Games. ” They pick themes they already like with mechanics they already like at price points at which they’ve previously purchased.

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