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. As we are still in early alpha, that may change in the future though. “Talk with the players and do lots of playtesting. “Most of the creatures you see are mutants.

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Horror Build Playtesting Animation 210

Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In previous years I’ve opened the review with a collage of dev images of varying themes and content, but approaching the end of this year we have one major theme that stands out, and that I’ll be writing more about below, so let’s hear it for the interface mockups! The first three years there are Alpha, followed by Beta.

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Beta Alpha Mechanics Build 105

Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. Voice actors breathe life into characters, and developers write thousands of lines of code. Neglecting thorough testing can leave a game unready, even for an Alpha release.

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Game Developer Game Development Development Bug 52

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

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?” …alert level xD.

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Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52