Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Balancing Levers The idea of “post-balance” from this article’s title doesn’t mean no balance. On the contrary, as you probably know, Cogmind is big on balance , an emphasis achieved initially through adherence to carefully designed patterns and formulas.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

'We do big numbers because that's cool,' says Larian Studios head of production David Walgrave.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

So it becomes quite a balancing act when it comes to our hosted buyer program.” The post Africa Games Week’s Event Director Alexandra Pattison “It’s a balancing act” appeared first on PreMortem Games. Female game developers in Africa are harder to find and engage with.

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Filmustage

MAY 19, 2023

Case studies: Successful balancing of art and finance in films Filmmaking history offers numerous examples of the successful balancing of art and finance. Image source: IMDb.com Conclusion Balancing art and finance in film production is a challenging but necessary part of filmmaking.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CD Projekt Red has significantly improved the work-life balance of its employees, following a number of crunch complaints over the years.

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Big Games

JANUARY 7, 2024

In this comprehensive exploration, we delve into the art of striking a delicate balance, ensuring that your mobile game development stays afloat and sails smoothly from inception to a successful launch. Balancing speed and thoroughness is essential to deliver a polished product that meets the project’s goals and user expectations.

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Game Developer

MARCH 20, 2024

Alan Wake II's strong sales balanced out declining quarterly and annual revenue in a "challenging yet remarkable" 2023 for Remedy.

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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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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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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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Game Developer

DECEMBER 8, 2023

When creating the music for Lies of P, I focused on balancing the musical elements to not be overly flashy or excessively dull. Instead, I delicately crafted the music to allow players to navigate subtle emotional nuances effectively.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The operation of an efficient game development team is extraordinarily difficult to balance. These are a few key factors I have found influence the operations the most.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When creating the music for Lies of P, I focused on balancing the musical elements to not be overly flashy or excessively dull. Instead, I delicately crafted the music to allow players to navigate subtle emotional nuances effectively.

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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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Juego Studio

JANUARY 18, 2024

Game development is a highly specialized and profitable niche. The advent of technology in this industry enables the making of high-quality and variety of video games.

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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

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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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 15, 2024

To make sure all upgrades and weapons are properly balanced, Game Swing does playtests throughout development. “We Add to that, that the whole core of the game relies on that balance to be right to provide enough challenge, without becoming unfair or impossible. Yes, I would say balancing is the hardest part.”

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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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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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Game Developer

AUGUST 15, 2023

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

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

The handling definitely leans towards arcade-style physics and is designed to offer a balance between being accessible and challenging. “We Achieving the right balance was not an easy feat according to Szpiczakowski. “We We want it to appeal to both casual gamers and racing enthusiasts.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 29, 2024

It's more balanced in Côte d'Ivoire (57% offline vs 43% online) and Senegal (54% offline vs 46% online). A majority of players across Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon play offline, at 53%. This is particularly prominent in Cameroon, with 66% of the respondents playing offline versus 34% online. Read more

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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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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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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 28, 2023

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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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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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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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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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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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An area that springs to mind is just the balance of survival systems. The genre has a very specific economy, so we have to make sure that balance is right so there’s enough challenge without frustration. Survival Systems The development of the ambitious title also comes with its fair share of challenges, Flynn admits. “An

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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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