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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek: Lower Decks “The Inner Fight” and “Old Friends, New Planets” Episodes

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In season four’s ninth episode “The Inner Fight,” Mariner makes explicit that her self-sabotage stems from her fear that she’ll become a general who sends young people out to die like Picard was for Sito. Yes, yes, we all know what they’re spoofing off of with the title, “The Inner Fight.”

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How to Make Board Game Rules

Brand Game Development

A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” ” Rules are really tricky to do right because you have to serve two purposes: balance the game and communicate clearly. Making Balanced & Clear Rules. Rules vs. Rulebooks. Avoid false choices!

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Patreon October Updates

Sirlin

Though you might as well wait until next week because there will be a balance update within a week. Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Last and certainly not least, I plan to post a new playable version of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep fighting game (for the $25+ patrons).

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Pandemic: Getting People to Work Together

Brand Game Development

Pandemic blows the minds of a lot of new gamers because it’s often the game that introduces the concept of cooperative board game play. You play as members of the CDC fighting four pandemics, each of which are constantly threatening to wipe whole metropolitan areas off the map. Others may focus heavily on finding the cures.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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That’s the core concept from Voodoo. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. We love the concept. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can. And despite Net Fishing!

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

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.”

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Is your baby ugly? We took ours out to find out.

Rindoku

Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. Ovidiu Mantoc – Level Design, 3D Art. Cosmin Coroiu – 3D Art. Carmen Palade – Animation.