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Game Balance and Fantasy Strike

Sirlin

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

Game Refinery

Tower of Fantasy was launched in the global markets in August 2022, luring players to the game with its “Genshin with an MMO experience” headlines. Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. The open-world of Tower of Fantasy. So, does it live up to the promise?

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Fantasy Strike's Features

Sirlin

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” Innovation can come in many different flavors.

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Step into the many fantastical worlds of Nightingale by Inflexion Games

PreMortem.Games

” The team sought to break away from traditional sci-fi and fantasy genres, finding inspiration in gaslamp fantasy—a style that blends nineteenth-century history with magical elements. An area that springs to mind is just the balance of survival systems. So making sure all those systems harmonize has been a long process.”

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The RPG Report, and the worst things in RPGs

Keith Burgun

FINAL FANTASY XVI – After playing a bunch more Kingdomheartslikes and getting more used to that, I’ve gotta say, this is a very well made Kingdomheartslike. Whereas if you compare that to something like Final Fantasy 13, there is a pretty central thing that’s being headed toward the entire time. Bad FIGHT pacing.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. “The I enjoyed what I was doing very much.

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Outside, Dungeon, Town: integrating the Three Places in Videogames

Keith Burgun

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. I’m playing through Final Fantasy VII Rebirth now (which I am loving) and it’s very clear in that game, whether you are in Outside , Dungeon or Town , pretty much at all times.

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