The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) The Geneforge Saga is a fantasy-science fiction hybrid with a wildly open-ended world, story, and game system.

Fantasy 69

Fantasy Game Design Game Designer AAA 69

iHobo

JULY 12, 2023

Although these lines are increasingly blurred today (as AAA cRPGs will tend to draw heavily from both traditions), there is a clear historical period after the Ultima - Wizardry split that dominates more than two decades of cRPG design.

Open World 52

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. Our games are highly interactive novels with settings, characters, and stories that get people to actually give us real money. I'm not a great fantasy writer. Thus, you'll mainly get it in indie games. So how do we succeed?

Writing 57

Writing Games AAA Indy 57

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. Thanks to groundbreaking technology advancements, developers can now take advantage of cutting-edge software and game engines which enable them to create fantasy worlds in video games. But is there an ultimate winner?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

That makes them the closest thing in games to a rock supergroup: Maya Kylmamaa (Game Lead, Engineer) , was CEO of the now defunct Reforged Studios (a Helsinki studio focused on AAA strategy games). Summarizing: a professional well experienced with PC, with first-hand experience leading a team/company.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy AAA Concepts Cutscenes 52

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Preferred Choice for AAA games Unreal Engine is well-documented and has great tools for the game development discipline that reduce the manual and resource-intensive tasks in game development.

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