Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. There was a lot more to the game, but this is a good basic level description of the important dynamics.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

This year’s major release was of course Beta 11 “Mechanical Renaissance,” in the works for 17 (!) months, and a massive set of new toys, challenges , revamped mechanics , and more. Cogmind Beta 11 release art, by Zyalin. So we’re done, right? Ready to do that Beta 12 map? WARLORD FOREVER!

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

PlayStation game testers provide detailed feedback on the gameplay, controls, game balance, and user interface, helping improve the final product. Therefore, you must familiarize yourself with the game design documents and understand the intended gameplay mechanics.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With many games available today, gamers won’t hesitate to switch to a different game. But how can generative AI help in-game conceptualization and design? Generative AI tools can help game designers in different ways. This streamlines the early game development stages.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area. How do you overcome those?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? This guide comes in three parts: How do you test game mechanics?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I should have predicted a $10 billion-a-year game if I wanted to sound like a true visionary. In my heart, I am a game designer. I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. I know a thing or two about power creep in game economy.

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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.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Rules provide directions on how to execute activities within a game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. Art Style To talk about the characteristics of this art style, we must start at its origin.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Both are a mix of art and science. And games haven't been the most value-driven industry in my opinion (referring to the abuse of addictive mechanics in games for profit, massive company layoffs to meet financial targets and the pressure on teams to deliver, leading to crunch and toxic behaviours, etc.).

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Game designers would just be guessing. So, what can games simulate? Strangely, the best example I can think of is a game trying to recreate a situation MUCH more difficult to simulate than baseball, life as a border agent in a totalitarian country. However, Wright was not making a game in the abstract.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Likewise, art history buffs tapped into the declining prestige of Jackson Pollock. For a market game designer, revealing information should be an orchestrated event. For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Between 7 Subtle Player Behaviors You Should Notice When Play-Testing and The Art of the Play Test: Designing Tests and Keeping Records , you might think that’s all I’ve got on my mind. You can choose to observe them while playing or elicit their feedback after the game has ended. Period, point blank.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

All in all, Axie Infinity’s growth spurt is decelerating (although still positive), and a majority of its player base treats the game like a daily job to make daily financial ends meet. Game Loops and Systems Overview Axie Infinity’s game design falls under the “Turn-based RPG” subgenre, according to GameRefinery’s taxonomy.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

The following is an excerpt from the Designer Notes for Old World. The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The first Civilization game was like a game design thunderbolt, sent from the heavens and marking everything it touched.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past year, Hypercasual saw massive diversification in terms of core mechanic design. While the hypercasual process is a wonderful machine for discovering new core mechanics, the real big money in Hypercasual is going to come from organizations that can turn hypercasual into a cog in the bigger machine. were released.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Find a Mechanic who may be hanging around a Repair Station. Cogmind’s Strictly Static Items. Low on treads or armor?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The interface, and the art style in general look very ‘Supercelly’.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Castle Clash by IGG, War Dragons by Pocket Gems and Art of Conquest by Lilith all came down between 15 to 35 percent compared to 2019. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. Card Battlers used to be a sub-genre led by Hearthstone.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

The very specific way it works is actually innovative and is a general contribution to game design that many other games could use. Notice that this isn’t just about poorly balanced games. Even the best balanced asymmetric game will suffer this fate.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Further, it has been relatively successful in both the East and the West - something that not too many games are easily able to achieve. Check out all the videos here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. And that is usually the point where a game company start working when you stop being. And drives games like Fortnite. There's no way.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. Further, slots game economies are still stuck largely in the digital dark ages of the single currency economy. The resulting numbers don’t lie, as this bold move by CM is proving to be very successful.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not. That Lonesome Valley is a short gay cowboy romance game about walking, sheepherding, and kissing. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

Chaumette acknowledged the issue but pointed out that “it takes every single frame of Avatar, of every Disney movie, of every movie you’ve ever seen, which collectively is maybe probably billions of times more than individual art pieces.” This shift could have both positive and negative consequences.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The stunning Cruising Pavilion installation at the 2018 Venice Biennale My previous cruising game The Tearoom focused on the emotional and psychological aspects of cruising, and eventually went on tour with the fantastic group art exhibition Cruising Pavilion. Voyeurs work differently, they have sex by watching a couple have sex.

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