Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Alex and Ovi receiving the Indie Prize at Dev-Play. Gabriel Tanko – Concept and 2D Art. Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. Meeting other indie devs is really cool. Kids had fun with Second Hand at Clujotronic.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. We love the concept. Originally launched back in 2019, Dicey Dungeons was an immediate hit indie game. Which is a difficult balance to strike. Sprinkling rewards throughout the gameplay, rather than at the end of each level, can make your game all the more fun to play. Net Fishing!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

It was a very tranquil concept at first, though we found our prototype didn’t offer enough things for the player to do.” For stuff like gameplay balance and feature implementation we have equal input and chime up if there’s something we feel strongly about. The indie duo feels relieved and a little bit anxious.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“I loved the concepts, the design. ” He subtly points to the age-old debate about work-life balance and the perceived differences between American and European professional cultures. But why this shift from AAA games to indie games and support platforms? The transition, however, was not without challenges.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

I’ve also been playing a lot of XCOM 2 lately, and dreaming up my own indie equivalent to solve its clarity problems. The weapons-as-tiles concept made positioning and movement interesting enough to me – and I ended up doubling down on that with how weapons worked (see Healthbars).

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And that's where Romero took his basic concept from. It's a rather indie horror film that is most of the time dedicated not to zombies, but people. The film surprisingly manages to convey the balance between two warring factions: the average American family and the caveman-like community.

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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. I know it's easy for armchair indies like me to complain about pulling punches. Not that her concept makes much sense; why does this apocalyptic suicide cult leader like poison gas specifically?

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. When cool European indie artists do it, I can abide it, but if I do it, I just feel too smug. So should police exist in this garden?

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 when I was making the original prototype, there were also two other gay cowboy things on my mind: Orville Peck's hit single "Dead of Night" and the gay indie romance film God's Own Country. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Like Brokeback, it's a story about young unhappy unsuccessful queer men.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

I also work with indie dev companies on a more casual level discussing challenges, goals and brainstorming solutions. You want to strike a balance between being specific and deliberate, but also human and approachable when writing rule books. This provides a three-pronged approach to getting balanced feedback on the writing.

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