Art Balance Fighting Mechanics 
Game Refinery
MAY 4, 2023
In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. Mechanically, the mode is relatively similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone.
Game Analytics
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.
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Deconstructor of Fun
OCTOBER 10, 2021
I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. No matter how cool the art, players have no use for Prophet Minera.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 1, 2024
We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”
Radiator Blog
MAY 5, 2021
It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Money sink.
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Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. Alien Artifacts.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
“RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. We’ll see players talk about features they’d like to see or suggest mechanics, and if our idea is sound, we bring it up in a team discussion to see if we want to include it into the game.” And so far, the team is happy they did.
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