Smart Fox Server

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this article we are going to explore several ways to use the open source HAProxy load balancer in conjunction with SFS2X , to increase the scalability and availability of a multiplayer project. Round robin Load Balancing. After a few seconds the load balancer should be up and running. Introducing HAProxy.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Bowser believes Nintendo of America has done such a good job of being inclusive and securing proper work/life balance a union isn't needed right now.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2017

The eight types of cards are elegantly balanced by short-term vs. long-term value. This game is excellent for teaching one of the fundamental lessons of game design balance: developing a trade-off. The post Love Letter: Elegantly Balancing a Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Game Developer

APRIL 18, 2023

The cooking game genre has sort of an uncanny valley: to be real, or not to be real. Here's how one studio approached it.

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

Therefore, the balance between simplicity and complexity is what is expected by the users, any game that satisfies this aspect is bound to succeed. Is It Easy To Balance Simplicity And Complexity? Ways Of Balancing The Game There are different ways in which you can balance a game.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Fantasy Strike is an interesting case study in game balance for an asymmetric game. I did the entire balancing process without any data at all, and now, after it’s all done, we have the data. Relying on Experts I find it much easier to balance a competitive game by going off the opinions of experts than looking at data anyway.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In today's Microcast, we discuss two of the biggest stories of the week.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 15, 2023

With the new Solo Self Mode, Blizzard finds a balance between Diablo III's inherent always-online nature and the wants of those who want to play it truly alone.

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Game Developer

JUNE 26, 2023

THQ Nordic tries to find a balance in making its games accessible to everyone while also letting the physical PC releases feel like events unto themselves.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Reviving a class series is a careful balance of appealing to players both new and old. Here's how Tribute Games approached it.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Here are the three green heroes: Master Midori is the Balance spec hero in the green faction. He’s honorable and fair and strives to keep nature’s balance intact. That's not really fair and Balanced. Wandering Mimic is another great Balance card. Gemscout Owl helps you rake in even more gold. They should stick to units.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The 15-year-old Mimimi Games is choosing to shut down as its founders recognize the growing scope of its games were leading to an improper work/life balance.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Our overall goal with these balance updates isn’t necessarily to achieve perfectly balanced matchups. It isn’t even to achieve game balance that is “good enough”. The real purpose of balance updates is to keep the game interesting to the community so they want to keep playing it.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Balancing structure and randomized story elements isn't hard if you plan for it.

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Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2023

Dome Keeper tasks players balancing their time between mining for ore and defending their fragile planetary base from creatures that don't want them there.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2023

We don’t consider results as a binary “successful” or “not successful” because that isn’t a useful metric. Instead, we have targets and our success or failure is measured by how far away from the targets we hit.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Designing and balancing new cards eight years into Hearthstone 's life cycle is no mean feat. We chatted with designer Leo Robles Gonzalez and VFX Lead artist Dominic Camuglia at Blizzard on the blood, sweat and.corpse effects that go into new expansions.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 12, 2023

As you might expect, numerical balance values like 10% higher stun duration, 8% less HP, or an extra 5% critical hit rate are often built to be easy to change because we expect to have a lot of things in the game that can change them.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But what I'm finding is that companies that have to remain competitive because they are in locations where they could lose people more easily are shifting faster to better work-life balance and better support systems for people so they don't burn out because they have more to lose; there's a business incentive for doing that. Read more

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 28, 2023

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Sirlin

JULY 21, 2015

We discuss techniques I use to balance games. Hosts: David Sirlin and Matt "Aphotix" DeMasi We discuss techniques I use to balance games. Hosts: David Sirlin and Matt "Aphotix" DeMasi We discuss techniques I use to balance games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On the podcast, they delve into what it's like being a female CEO, achieving work-life balance, industry trends, and the wisdom Carol has amassed on her thrilling journey through the gaming industry. Maintaining a balance between assertive decision-making and team autonomy can be challenging. It helps, right?

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Other services scale automatically as well, like Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) which scales slowly with increased traffic, so they need to be considered as well. You can reach out to AWS Support for assistance in ensuring your load balancer can handle any expected traffic.

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Lost Garden

DECEMBER 12, 2021

INTRODUCTION The problem with picking up sticks Recently I was designing the harvesting and crafting system for our Animal Crossing-like game Cozy Grove when I ran into a problem: picking up a stick is not that fun. The core activities in a life sim are generally not full of mastery and depth. You chop trees. […].

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In a summary of the investigation's findings , that external firm Gender Balance said it corroborated five accounts of sexual misconduct against a Nordic Game employee who had left the company by the time the investigation started.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2023

The government is taking issue with the esports leagues' Competitive Balance Tax, which it says was intended to penalize teams if they spent more on player salaries than an amount decided upon by Activision Blizzard.

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Half Geek

JULY 10, 2022

It’s a balancing act between more vision, and avoiding everything looking too small on mobile screens. This should balance out your own upgraded squad members capability in the mid-game. The default zoom is now further out by 20%, to give a bigger field of view. The goal is to keep Roguelike challenging from early to late-game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 12, 2023

That creates this tricky balancing act at the end of cycle because Nintendo needs to maintain interest in its existing hardware, while preparing titles for its next one. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo has often struggled with the console transition. Read more

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In this guest blog, the Rubber Duck Games team breaks down the journey to developing a boss fight for Evil Wizard – from design and prototyping to animation, testing, balancing, and finalizing the visual effects.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the earliest days of online gaming, there have been a minority of players who ruin the experience for other people, and a discussion about how best to tackle that problem.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 25, 2023

Game development is never an easy endeavour to start with, but Kareem went through it on Hard Mode, as a hobbyist developer who had to balance his dream project with a full-time job and raising kids. Read more

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Game Wisdom

MAY 25, 2023

The Clash of Choices in Game Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com One of the many balancing acts of game design is the act of creating cool, interesting, unique, abilities for the player to use, and then balancing said abilities within the scope and design of your game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 14, 2023

In an SEC filing , Roblox Corporation disclosed that it had 5% of its $3 billion cash and securities balance (as of February 28, 2023) held at SVB. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

But it took some tweaking to get the right balance. Wu emphasizes the importance of creating a game that strikes a balance between realism and player enjoyment. A rich marketplace culture, urbanization, industrialization and civilian society in the era. It showed that players preferred a less hardcore approach.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

There are key considerations that go into creating one, such as - Balance When we talk about balance in game design, it involves creating a balance in elements such as fairness, win-loss conditions, game states, economy balancing, difficulty levels, and others in a way that can contribute towards improving the gaming experience of the player.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

But the morale and quality of life it can bring can be quite motivating, balancing & inspiring – if not all the above.” Balance your mental health. So for things like these, I take the above steps to counter balance. It isn’t a necessity. More of a ‘nice to have’. What’s your creative process?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 10, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said he would like the firm to balance protecting artwork and creators' engagement with new technology such as image generators.

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