Game Errors

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Adjust Graphics Settings In-Game: Experiment with in-game graphics settings to find an optimal balance between visual quality and performance. Conclusion Navigating the tumultuous terrain of Broken Roads doesn’t have to be marred by crashes.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But fear not, for I have scouted the terrain and returned with strategies to bypass this impasse. Optimize In-Game Settings To improve loading times, I ventured into the in-game settings, tweaking graphics options and hoping to strike a balance between visuals and performance.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. 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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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. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

On the other hand, one original piece of logic behind citizen tile placement was that it required cities to maintain a balance between improvements and growth – building more improvements than citizens had no value because no one was there to work the new Mines and Farms.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Despite its relatively small item pool and low emphasis on random variants, Brogue has an even greater emphasis on terrain factors that really help support the dynamic gameplay in a way that keeps repeated runs interesting. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. The numbers used are based on a wealth of player run stats, in combination with the desired balance for these new Garrisons.

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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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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) While on the subject of realism, it also makes plenty of sense you can go back to collect resources left behind earlier. Architecture.

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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. The grand scene).

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. And if there is then I want to see it, and be able to talk about it and reason about its ramifications. What depth isn’t.

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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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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These offer very little control over direction, although based on their rules if you’re aware of the surrounding terrain you can possibly get a decent idea of where one might send you given your current position. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. It already feels so fraught to me.

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