Unity Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In this guest blog, the Rubber Duck Games team breaks down the journey to developing a boss fight for Evil Wizard – from design and prototyping to animation, testing, balancing, and finalizing the visual effects.

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iXie gaming

JULY 4, 2025

Integrating QA from the prototype phase minimizes risk and speeds up delivery. Build Cross-Functional QA Teams: – A balanced mix of manual testers, automation engineers, performance analysts, and compliance experts ensures complete coverage.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Some objectives I’ve used for testing Highways & Byways are “make sure Byway Cards communicate the location of roads clearly” and “gather data on the balance of Event Cards.” Choose something to pay extra close attention to, such as balance, communication, or accessibility.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. This early prototype felt weird to play, because the player could just run around the big open landscape and lead monsters on a big chase.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Subsequently, they entered the Spielfabrique program, a Franco-German accelerator for young game studios, securing funding from Ubisoft to enhance Hiru’s prototype. It’s like the balance between taking a shower and brushing your teeth. He elaborates, “I believe I’d be less effective if I focused on just one.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The podcast unfolds an engaging conversation that delves into the challenges aspiring entrepreneurs face, the distinguishing traits of successful founders, and the timeless topic of work-life balance. This means honing in on a single hypothesis, swiftly generating prototypes for immediate feedback, and meticulously collecting data.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Managing live games requires a balance of retaining mature players with evergreen content, personalizing offers, attracting new players, and getting them into your core loop as quickly as possible.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It Despite going viral on Reddit and TikTok several times, they had to strike a delicate work-life balance to prevent burnout. And it resulted in The Enjenir.”

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

The Blueprint system allows for faster prototyping. While it doesn’t match Unreal’s rendering power, it balances quality and performance well for smartphone devices. Advantage Balanced graphics that ensure smooth gameplay across all Android devices. Merits: Industry-leading graphics for immersive gaming experiences.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too. What's the balance?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. Having a strong and clear direction is the key that can make the improvisation of the game better.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. This is a checklist I like to check off before I start final testing: Get the physical prototype ready. I’ve ordered an updated version of the prototype. An outlier can cause serious problems in statistical analyses. Most Important Highways & Byways Updates.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 29, 2024

Since then, I feel like I’ve learned how to balance work and life a bit better.” I had made dozens of smaller games and prototypes in my spare time while I worked my day job, but Dinkum is my first commercial product. Since then, I feel like I’ve learnt how to balance work and life a bit better.”

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Disappointed by the lack of integration of the overworld feature into RimWorld, he further developed his idea.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. With the physical prototype in my home right now, play-testing is going much, much, much faster. That’s a good thing! I’ve already play-tested this game a ton. Most Important Highways & Byways Updates.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. And generally I maintained a pretty healthy work life balance for the most part of it. Then I try to make sense of that entire doc and see if I can make a coherent fun core design out of it. From there I take it step by step. Develop, test, develop, test.”

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, balancing his fifth year as a Computer Engineering student and a pivotal role at Avalon, an American-based software company was no small feat. As he grew, his fascination extended to games such as Prototype, Need for Speed and GTA. That laptop became his digital playground.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This is where most of the rules have been ironed out and are acceptable enough to use during a prototype either in person or online through something like Tabletopia or Tabletop simulator. This is to make sure the game is – on some fundamental level – balanced. Public blind play tests. Many people were confused.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. Having a strong and clear direction is the key that can make the improvisation of the game better.

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Art Pixel Studios Media 104

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. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Prototyping This stage involves prototyping different ideas including level layout design, character design, gameplay elements and mechanics, and other core concepts, before finalizing them for the cemented stage of the game production process. Create the right balance of challenge and reward throughout the game.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

At that point, I’m getting close to a prototype. In a game I co-designed with Matt Greenleaf, which is currently unpublished, I had come up with a mechanic that was whenever a player made a move, the game state would either go to imbalance or balance.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

The idea for New Heights emerged as a personal prototype, driven by the desire to create a game focused on exploration rather than violence. To strike a balance, the team aimed to automate as much of the body movements as possible while retaining the meaningful choices that players make while climbing.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 23, 2015

So even though these are "prototype" copies, the cards would already be considered done by most companies. You're also invited to give feedback on Patreon about balance issues. That said, it won't make sense to make balance claims right off the bat. All the artwork is finished and the game feels finished.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

Sending this document along with the latest prototype of your game gives artists a ton of information to work with. I send that to the artist with a copy of my latest prototype. Tweaked some game rules to improve balance. Please note that there is no industry standard for how you communicate with artists. Aesthetic Guidelines.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

Besides these well documented ones, the biggest problem I experienced first hand was balancing the game’s difficulty. When I have an idea I consider viable, ideally I go straight to prototyping and develop the game from there. What’s your creative process? “I I like to get my hands dirty as early as possible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 26, 2025

Work-life balance seemed to be the main measure of studio success from the employees perspective. Voodoos blend of prototyping at a massive scale, performance marketing and product analytics. To me, this signalled the focus on comfort over competition. Moon Actives hyperfocused data driven live ops mastered to a perfection.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

The aim of CSG in Godot is for it to be used in level prototyping. Unreal has always offered similar boolean CSG, while Unity has recently acquired ProBuilder (which is a different type of tool, but still aimed at prototyping level geometry). This technique allows to create simple versions of most common shapes by combining primitives.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

From scribbling your ideas onto the proverbial napkin, to actually crafting prototypes, play-testing, redoing it all, and finally getting your game to reviewers, there is no shortage of details and learning curves. It’s a tough balancing act! You rely on amazing communities like this one to educate, encourage, and inspire.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The team includes 4 founding members ( Goodness Omogbadegun , James Ohia , Ephraim Duvbiama and Ikpeme) and 9 teammates, which allows Ikpeme to balance his full-time job and his role at Dash Studios. With the help of a graphic designer, the team built their first prototype in just three months. Trusting your team is crucial.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They must possess a comprehensive knowledge of prototyping, testing, programming, and development techniques to craft a seamless gaming experience. Game designers work on concepts, systems, player progression, balancing and level design. Technical In addition to being creative, a game designer must also be technically proficient.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2025

Arnklit continues the bezier improvements with GH-95564 , allowing users to auto tangent new points in a balanced or mirrored manner. We’ve even covered this very topic in a previous blog , where we discussed the rocky road of bringing this project to light even featured a prototype which you can try right now !

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

When it comes to what would increase already very high job satisfaction, pay is the primary driver (37%) with interesting projects (17.0%) and better work/life balance (14%%) trailing as the second and third factors. Although I am surprised of pay is so important for increased happiness. But this is why we do surveys.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

Limiting city counts has many gameplay benefits, such as more predictable victory point thresholds based on cities, better balanced per-city bonuses, more consistent city value weights for the AI, and a generous minimum distance between cities to allow breathing room for one-unit-per-tile combat.

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Mnenad

JANUARY 14, 2020

  So I remember exactly how my first prototype looked like. The game generated enough revenue to balance out the development costs (Unity Plus license, Music, Plugins, etc. That were the kind of games he used to play on his mobile device back then.   I’m happy that the app does well!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. Not sure how they will prototype fast enough until they get some. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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