Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

If you have multiple different viable strategies, then balancing them is often a matter of tweaking rules. If you only have one viable strategy, you could be looking at problems baked into the mechanics or even core engine of your game.

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Point and Click Art Games Communications 100

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. Which is a difficult balance to strike. In the game, you run your own farm, create your own products, and sell to the local community through your own small business. And we don’t see this often enough in games. So it was a no-brainer why this title made our roundup.

Mobile Gaming 98

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics 98

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

I spent a week trying to figure out how to use a Control Rig to drive the undercarriage animation of my X-Wing models before giving up and just baking the animation into its own asset, which I can reuse easily. Staying organized.

Film 80

Film Engine Engineering Rigging 80

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players. Baking/Kitchen. So, I’ve become that person who decided to learn to bake during the pandemic. Develop your civilization on a military, scientific, cultural, and economic level. Description from Etsy. Meeple Pillow – $20.

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Tile Point and Click Games Art 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Volumetric fog is making its first appearance in Godot 4, balancing a realistic look and fast performance, thanks to the use of temporal reprojection. You can stream regions, which makes the system applicable to large open spaces.

Beta 52

Beta Engine Engineering Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Balancing pros and cons, it's probably not worth implementing it, but the door is open for it. On objects that provide their own baked AO, this value is harcoded to 0, to avoid SSAO from interfering with them. This allows beautiful mixing between baked and real-time. Produces ghosting effects in many situations.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. You have strike a balance. This guide is going to be very detailed. It will be the longest article I’ve ever made. I want to see you build your account organically into the thousands.

Dev 130

Dev Games Advertising Point and Click 130

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In an attempt to make content more scalable, PVE design borrowed a page from PVP and the team built new PVE modes as rule-sets that could be applied to any map by a game designer through simple tooling vs. baked in-experiences on custom maps. while competition would ship 3x the features and find success with at least some of them.

Content 52

Content FPS Mobile Mobile 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone. but you can only safely do this if you have 50% or more health already. You're trading health for ammo / convenience.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52

Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Speaking of AlphaGo, it is interesting to note that the architecture of the world’s best game-playing AI reflects this same search/heuristic balance, its Monte Carlo tree search uses heuristics to channel the raw power of pure look-ahead, efficiently searching the game tree for directions with the greatest average value, and its board-evaluation (..)

Feature 40

Feature Terrain Baking Games 40