Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2024

building environments, creating animations and rigs, building the technology), and then do the things that take less time to complete later. For features like cutscenes, it depends on how much difficulty it takes to build the cutscenes. In the original FF7, the FMV sequences were set in stone.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the best examples on the market today is Blizzard’s portable take on its dungeon-crawling RPG, Diablo Immortal , which takes players on an epic fantasy adventure set between the events of Diablo II and III. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes. Storyline in Diablo Immortal.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. This is primarily because the Korean art team does not have the same historical and cultural burden as European and American teams shoulder when designing western fantasy elements. The rough cutscene). The grand scene).

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. All the dynamic cutscenes and dialogue sequences relied on 4 player characters all bantering amongst each other like in Buffy or something. But not really.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” But it’s also visible in the Holodeck, or in anime like Sword Art Online (which was directly inspired by Ultima Online !). Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. So is FFXIV.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

where the main drawback is you're still vulnerable during the 2 second execution animation. still feels good streamlined hacking = no contrived hacking minigame, just hold down F for ~7 seconds guard placement when unalerted, they follow hand placed patrols / schedules, always the same every loop once alerted, they take cover and flank etc.

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