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. We both share the same responsibilities and brainstorm ideas together based on previous data and research on the market.
Grid Sage Games
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Cogmind’s “ special modes ,” timed events with unique mechanics, can in one sense be seen as the experimental test beds of Cogmind. The ability to disguise oneself like this has been requested by players since Cogmind’s alpha days (shout out to its main proponent, zxc!),
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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.
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.
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Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed.
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. Difficulty.
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. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. Check out the video! What's new?
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