PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” “The first four years were almost absolute happiness.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’ve been working extremely hard this year on Spellstorm (among other projects) – so much so that I sort of forgot to write something about it here on my blog, I’ve realized! I did write this piece over at its BoardGameGeek page, so do check that out to begin with, if you haven’t already: [link].

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

At the time of writing this article, about 6% of board games listed on board game have cooperative play. Force players to balance tactics and strategy. Pandemic forces you to balance tactics and strategy. A well-designed co-op game like Pandemic stands out among the crowd. You know what I’ve noticed?

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Most people who want to write a video game need to buy a piece of software called a Game Engine. “My Development Life Is Crap From Wall Too Wall, I Have No Time, and Now I Have To Look At Incomprehensible Corporate Balance Sheets Too?" Here is another summary. I don't know if it's a good summary. I didn't read it.) The basics: 1.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. Not just their stats and skills, but also in careful naming and writing of interconnected backstories that I knew few players would even read. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

It gives you a chance to strategize, interact with your opponents, and write your destiny. It upset the whole drafting balance. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

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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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

SageMaker Canvas provides customers with a visual point-and-click interface that allows you to build models and generate accurate ML predictions on your own—without requiring any ML experience or having to write a single line of code. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model. Enter: SageMaker Canvas!

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I don't want to write a review. That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

But since I can't resist writing about the thing, I want to start with the key question: Why do people love these games so much, despite the sadism. If said community doesn't form to write online guides and wikis, all you have is an incomprehensible game that scares players off forever. They write beloved hits, one after another.

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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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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 Gun only worked as part of cleverly pre-planned designs, which was fundamentally fighting the reactive-design goal I was going for, so I scrapped it and rethunk.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I thought the writing was good (great, for a videogame) but the actual combat I found to be very annoying; real time button mashy combat where the enemies have gigantic health bars resulted in my hand literally aching after beating one boss. The Good The writing starts off incredible. The opening cutscene literally made me cry.

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Sirlin

MAY 24, 2019

Yeah, me too, and it’s all about the writing. So she gains more and more power, and fights for good, and she gets it. Remember all those letters that Tywin was writing? So in other words, there’s an enormous war so big that the fate of all life hangs in the balance, but all we need to win it is the ability to kill ONE guy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards. The metrics and stats balancing in the game work well!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions). Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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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. 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. Failing that (gets blasted in a fight?

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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

MAY 4, 2020

This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Even better, the team has showcased a holistic focus on the game: Masterfully balanced the gameplay with regular nerfs/buffs, refreshing the meta Designed for both elder and new players, often forgotten by mature games Took risks (e.g.,

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. but to me what saves the film is more the Brexit overtones, which adds a more complex layer of xenophobia to the gay cowboy genre.

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