Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

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Art Concepts Dev Studios 59

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art.

Studios 52

Studios Mobile Mobile Console 52

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. But that’s not all. The Brew Barons also features aerial combat. “As

Studios 104

Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it. Making a prototype. Well not really.

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Prototyping Alpha Asset Point and Click 52

Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

One is sketching a scene or character concept very rough and with a lot of gesture on a piece of paper (or digitally) but in the following steps, when it comes to outlining the shapes, the sketch becomes sort of stiff and loses its dynamic. We rather think of an ideal or prototype bird like this one over here from a kid's science book.

Terrain 52

Terrain Concepts Art Mesh 52

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Sean: Guidelines for writing good rules really boils down to learning the art of instruction and communication. I’d say the main tool set for understanding and wielding that art form is empathy. Sean: I ended up resorting to a concept of taking MMORPG concepts and placing them into this D20 world.

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Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Before doing a full item-by-item review, I started with two special categories of unique build-defining items: aliens artifacts and Exiles prototypes. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes. As an example, by far the most sought after prototype was Lightpack 2.0, Categorical Approach.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. Since I'm interested in making openly political art, I can't just grin at every question with "well, what do you think?"

Simulation 52

Simulation Art AI Internet 52

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

They get to a prototype level. But at the end of the day, games are a mix of art and culture and other things that if you want to make something that really blows up in a big way, you probably do need to have a vision that ultimately does take 18 to 24 months to make. Now it's moved to concepting. There's no way.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Quick animations and concurrent matching result in fast gameplay; it is one of the fastest switchers live. The execution of the art directly affects the success of the design. The power up, obstacle and piece-drop animations are short and the debris is just enough to feel satisfying yet not overwhelm the board.

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Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. This marks its true public release, with finished graphics, gameplay, tuning, more sex, and finally an ending. L of semen for each one.

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Code Educational Education Prototyping 52