PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

The low-poly racing game, developed by Polish indie developer Pixel Perfect Dude , feels like a love letter to the PlayStation 1 era of rally games, where you could actually name the top drivers and the cars they drove. “Ah Achieving the right balance was not an easy feat according to Szpiczakowski. “We Ah yes those co-pilots!”

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Something that seems to offer a challenge, but is actually a perfectly balanced system so that no one ever feels frustrated. Which is only avoided with a well-defined hierarchy of power and/or competencies that not everyone in the indie world is willing to assume. For me, these are not games, they are guided tours!”

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As we navigate this evolving terrain, perhaps the future of education is not about replacing traditional methods but integrating games as a complementary tool. While the significance of platforms like Steam is evident, there’s been a notable evolution in the indie gaming scene.

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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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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It's probably not worth the hassle for a solo indie. But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Compare this to the variety of mobs in Doom and Quake maps, with terrain designed first and foremost for the NPCs.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. Liberal players might try to "balance" a police presence with "limited gayness", queer or anarchist players might prune all the police entirely, and Tory players might engineer a cringe garden consisting solely of police and high street retail, etc.

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