Game Industry News

APRIL 6, 2023

Episode eight, “Surrender” ( Surrender (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom ) races from plot point to plot point, and while some of the pacing doesn’t quite work, the episode still manages to balance necessary character development with the action.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On the podcast, they delve into what it's like being a female CEO, achieving work-life balance, industry trends, and the wisdom Carol has amassed on her thrilling journey through the gaming industry. She acknowledges that even some male leaders who deviate from the stereotypical "alpha leader" image face similar challenges.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts.

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AWS Games

MAY 7, 2024

Palia’s external traffic is routed through a geo-load balanced domain name system (DNS) address to a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Still, there was fear that there were not enough players in alpha tests to accurately simulate launch numbers. Load testing their system was also necessary to ensure a smooth rollout.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This extra layer of strategy balances the need to kill off stragglers, focus on impeding more skilled opponents, or exact revenge against irritating individuals. “Our intention is to ensure that all cards are balanced. “So far, no-one has made a Battle Royale tower defense game,” says Fredrik Wahrman.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! Speaking of sprinting, Will found a better way to balance our sprinting/dodging control that uses the same button.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Game Daily

MAY 3, 2023

Currently it’s being formed through a series of timed alpha programs in which creators can join, play, and create. We are still in alpha mode meaning that we operate in seasons. You’re always looking to find a balance between driving virality or retention or monetization.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He stumbled upon an alpha build of a game called Iconoclasts. ” He subtly points to the age-old debate about work-life balance and the perceived differences between American and European professional cultures. The allure seems to be universal. Eric’s foray into gaming began late one night in an architecture studio.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. It was added relatively recently and so has not been tested in the alphas as much as other features. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Also in 2019, land sales began (an extension of the Axie Universe, which we’ll break apart in a later section), the marketplace shifted over to the Loom Network (a Layer 2 on Ethereum), and the card battle game community alpha released. That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?”

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hearthstone’s recent sets have also caused balance problems for the game, and in the time it takes to adjust, players churn at higher rates. Runeterra’s second alpha phase did poorly based on Twitch traffic. Hearthstone players aren’t as voracious for new cards, and there aren’t as many Hearthstone players as there used to be.

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Game Industry News

JUNE 17, 2021

Star Trek takes place largely in the Alpha Quadrant of the Milky Way galaxy. Some of these franchises manage to strike a solid balance between nostalgia Easter-eggs and tedious retread, but a lot of them do not. I don’t know why the showrunners decided to do a nostalgia episode.

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Game Industry News

JULY 8, 2021

One assumes that the Wadi have some understanding of diplomacy as a spacefaring race, so surely, Falow can understand that their Chula causes the Alpha Quadrant contingent real concern. Joel Brooks gives Falow just the right balance of silliness and menace. Why he chooses not to alleviate same remains a mystery.

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The episode strikes a great balance between plot, character development, and in-universe references. The Ceti Alpha 1V/V mix up recalls Khan’s adventures prior to Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan. Other episodes have tried to cram too much story into the show’s run time, and others have existed mostly to serve the larger season arc. “An

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Some new slightly different set of combos is possible, and that can be balanced around, but when it comes to having basic competence at using the feature and understanding what's going on, it's a big improvement. They should have left it how it was and balanced around it. Does it change which combos are possible? But really, who cares.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Given the high control we have over the shader compiler, we can: Detect when shaders write to the alpha channel and automatically make the surface go via the transparent pipeline. Great alpha blending support. Balancing pros and cons, it's probably not worth implementing it, but the door is open for it. Framebuffer layout.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

The effect of the release highlights the importance of balancing between releasing things quickly and testing. It’s 2021 and Diablo Immortal has just entered closed Alpha. This was largely due to a very poor release that upset their high-value players. We saw this game as a hit in the West and the East alike. The game looks stunning.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. Now, that moved to beta, then it's moved to Alpha, now it's moved to first playable. You're dictating that everything below them is going to be mediocre at best in your company.

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