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Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

Radiator Blog

Dense narrow spaces = too much content packed together and repetitive encounters. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. Loot RPGs need to carefully balance the player dilemma of "this would be useful" vs. "this is better to sell" and this tips that balance too much toward the latter.

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

Genshin Impact The open-world RPG added a permanent TCG minigame Genshin Impact hasn’t waned in popularity since storming onto the mobile and console marketplace in 2020 with its high-quality production values, cel-shaded visuals, open-world RPG mechanics, and strong narrative focus.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. Which is a difficult balance to strike. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

The anime art style is fairly similar to the one in Genshin Impact, but one of the biggest differences is that Tower of Fantasy players explore the open sci-fi world of the planet Aida, rather than the fantasy setting depicted in Genshin Impact. The open-world of Tower of Fantasy.

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On Backtracking in Roguelikes

Grid Sage Games

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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