Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Voice actors breathe life into characters, and developers write thousands of lines of code. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging. The proof of concept is crucial, helping decide if the game is feasible, its cost, team size, and timeline.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

To me, a mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance. I’m making this up as I go along and even as I write this very sentence. The mechanic was so inelegant that it would have required a ton of rules to make the game balanced.

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Real Programming

DECEMBER 7, 2022

At RP4K, that mostly means learning how to write code in Python. They’ll even learn concepts like the Pythagorean theorem. Because RP4K embeds gamification concepts into the lessons, the class will be its own type of game. Python poses the right balance in that it’ll stimulate children without being overwhelming.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

Key concepts A few key concepts used in this example are outlined below. The most common quantization used for this LoRA fine-tuning workflow is 4-bit quantization, which provides a decent balance between model performance and fine-tuning feasibility.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This guide comes in four parts: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Rule writing can be business-like, resembling technicial writing in a lot of ways. Brandon: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? How do you test your rules?

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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.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ll also be writing responses for Will. Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. To give a good example, I suck at writing rules and they don’t really interest me. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. How Ben, Sarah, and Will Got Started. Ben: Yeah, thanks for having us!

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Do you have a concept in mind?” Example : Imagine I have a solid concept for a “Match-3 with a social metagame”. In the book, “ Dream Team ”, the author Shane Snow illustrates a concept called the Zone of Tension. A team is a constant balance to maintain. Industry peers asked me: “What games will you make?” “Do

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Categorical Approach. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AWS provides tools such as AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to automate horizontal scaling and distribute traffic across multiple resources. Additionally, proactive capacity redistribution introduces further delay in restoring balanced backend systems.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

I used to write about where games went right or wrong, now I actually try fixing their problems and find out if I’m right! 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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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

To me, a mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance. I’m making this up as I go along and even as I write this very sentence. Players draft destination cards at the beginning of Highways & Byways. One day, it will be a Kickstarter campaign.

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Sirlin

MAY 24, 2019

Yeah, me too, and it’s all about the writing. The problem is not the concept of this arc, but rather the critical moment when she actually becomes the villain. To explain why the alternative is interesting, there’s two concepts we should think about. In Lord of the Rings, evil is an abstract concept. First, George R.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Moria’s descendant Angband also included ego items ( over 100 properties), but expanded the concept of randomized items even further by adding the option to activate “Randomly Generated Artifacts,” abbreviated “randarts.” Randomized Items in My Cogmind?! What form could they take?

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. Some concepts: More enemies could show up? I’ve already reused a slightly altered version of this in the new DSF maps, and balance-wise don’t find it suitable for Garrisons anyway.

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Game Industry News

JUNE 17, 2021

Some of these franchises manage to strike a solid balance between nostalgia Easter-eggs and tedious retread, but a lot of them do not. There’s a logical, in-universe reason for them to be there, so the story can play around with the concept of surprise Ferengi without tilting into ridiculousness.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Sky Mavis was valued at $3B; keep in mind that Sky Mavis owns 21% of the fully diluted AXS token supply, which once fully unlocked will be worth over $7 billion based on prices at the time of this writing. That naturally makes balancing the SLP economy for long-term token sustainability even more important.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the second battle (see second and third screenshot above) they introduce about 5 new concepts to the game, all of which are kind of new for the genre, and the screen gets so chaotic and confusing that it’s hard to follow. Just in that third screenshot alone there are so many concepts which feel new and confusing. This is great!

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units. Unlike the rest of my writing on Old World ’s design, I’m not sure I can quite articulate why 1UPT worked better than the stacking system I had implemented.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Their attempt with Spooky Pop likely informed some of the good decisions that led to HDP: balancing known wins and innovation, testing a recognizable and previously loved IP and following best practices from top casual games. Florian Steinhoff has a great GDC talk about the balance of levels here. Obstacles are low complexity.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And that's where Romero took his basic concept from. When writing the story, the director was also inspired by the novel "I Am Legend", which later found its own film adaptation. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

The second Clash game was Clash Mini, which entered soft launch around three months from writing this article. As a consequence, autochess has remained as a niche concept that hinted at a strong potential but that nobody has been able to find a way to turn into a profitable product ready for mass adoption (at least in the West).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the second battle (see second and third screenshot above) they introduce about 5 new concepts to the game, all of which are kind of new for the genre, and the screen gets so chaotic and confusing that it’s hard to follow. Just in that third screenshot alone there are so many concepts which feel new and confusing. This is great!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. Now it's moved to concepting. And they were about to build a game around the concept of Amazon of Atlantis until one of the engineers said, Guys, you've got it all wrong.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Why writing rules is different than other kinds of writing How to structure a rule book Making rule books clear and concise Your player’s first experience and your rule book Dealing with rule book skimmers Parting advice. Brandon: Both in consulting and in creating books, you’ve done quite a bit of writing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Similar to Today’s: Current level setup (clear objectives in X moves or less) Mode: Balance Description: Collect 2 colors of gems roughly at the same pace. Developers must find the harmonious balance between ‘too easy’ and ‘pure frustration’. No similar exists today Mode: Avalanche Description: Gems fall randomly to fill the board.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here I depart from Brokeback and take a note from God's Own Country, writing two characters with different ethnicities and upbringings: Jose is a middle class suburban Latino west coaster, and Bud is a white working class rural hill guy. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. It already feels so fraught to me.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 24, 2023

As the conversation progressed, the trio delved into the challenges of finding a balance between creativity and management, a common struggle for game developers and company founders alike. Their experiences highlight the critical balance between leveraging personal skills and outsourcing areas outside one’s expertise.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch. Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it.

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