PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

But the morale and quality of life it can bring can be quite motivating, balancing & inspiring – if not all the above.” Write the idea down in as much detail as is feasible – what it looks or smells like, how it should seem or feel, what effects it should have on the viewer, or on the code. Balance your mental health.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

If it looks good, you should write a copy of it. I was inspired to write this post because I saw a popular streamer playing Yet Another Zombie Survivors. However, the weapons aren't balanced well. The newer games try much harder to balance the weapons against each other, providing a better variety of builds.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

I wanted to make a game completely on my own to balance my professional life as a game developer working with big teams.” Kemppainen details the journey: “It starts with writing and coming up with a general outline of the story and the main puzzles.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The game is balanced on a multitude of variables, events, triggers, put together like a house of cards. Overall, I’d say that coming from the film industry definitely helped the script-writing process for games”, he says. A little mistake, a little bug, and everything can fall down.” “All

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Great art, great music, good writing. I was going to write “too long”, but there is no correct length for an RPG. Too “balanced” Strategy games can’t really be too balanced, but RPGs easily can, and most that come out these days, are. Bad Pacing.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

Delightfully eerie world Development on Dredge began shortly after and took roughly two years to complete, with the last six months mostly focused on balancing, bug fixing and other tweaks. This allowed us to solidify our narrative over time instead of being rigidly prescriptive from the start and writing ourselves into a corner.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

Delightfully eerie world Development on Dredge began shortly after and took roughly two years to complete, with the last six months mostly focused on balancing, bug fixing and other tweaks. This allowed us to solidify our narrative over time instead of being rigidly prescriptive from the start and writing ourselves into a corner.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

The Tomb of Horrors was an early attempt to solve a very difficult problem: How to balance a turn-based RPG once characters get very powerful. Making money writing helps the self-esteem. To see why this isn't a good module, note: The scenes in the cover art are NOT IN THE ADVENTURE.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Seem like a monster to balance? These are valid concerns, but consider the following reviews on Board Game Geek: “Totally asymmetric but surprisingly balanced” – Patmol, 10/10 “Excellent design, asymmetric factions. You can read about that in-depth in this great article on Sprites and Dice. Really enjoyed.”

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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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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The most important rule is write down all the feedback you receive during play-testing. 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.” Chugging right along in play-testing.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

but to me it wasn’t the sort of tech that the game was ready for, be it for balance, architectural, or lore reasons. Among other previous event influences, you might notice similarities between Abominations (Halloween 2019) and the Botcube, which I’ll be writing about next time.

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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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” Solo dev Josh Salley (HALbot Studios) “I believe in keeping a good work life balance” Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company, but actually it’s a ‘one-man-band company’, as founder and CEO Nicola Piovesan calls it.

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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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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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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader. To create, we create a Cocos Shader file named “gaussian-blur.effect” and write the following. Note: In Cocos Creator 3.8.0,

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2023

It seems fitting to round the week out with this because I’ve been writing about brain chemistry and function recently. It’s a delicate balancing act that requires skilled animators, vfx artists, sound designers, and engineers to get the game into the sweet spot for reaction time in its worst case scenarios.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

They are heavily balanced to allow for a lot of variety. Baldur's Gate 3 I'll write about it when I've finished it, but I'm in the mud of Act 3. A lot of them make minor changes that turn Brotato into a completely different game and force you to rebuild your strategy from the ground up. They contacted me personally!)

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. And generally I maintained a pretty healthy work life balance for the most part of it. This is never a good thing.” What’s your creative process? “It

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Voice actors breathe life into characters, and developers write thousands of lines of code. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging. Balancing creativity with project constraints is tricky. Project leads ensure everyone stays on track.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Balancing One Game Is Hard. Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. In Elden Ring, this is very difficult, because the encounters are balanced to be tough when you have a friend. No matter who you are, Elden Ring is balanced to be unsatisfying.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Writing an especially warm review for Eurogamer , critic Emad Ahmed captured the game’s authenticity: “Venba captures something wonderful and mysterious to those of us in the diaspora, which is the real and imaginary conversations our parents and grandparents must have had about moving to the west.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

You can write rubbish code and there’s no one to complain. I saw someone else mention a work life balance and being a solo dev can become all consuming. I made a few J2ME games as a solo dev and also collaborated on a couple with another solo dev -which did ok- but I mostly got by with contract work.” It’s all on you.

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Real Programming

JUNE 16, 2022

All the hurdles and difficulties related to COVID-19 have only made this balance harder to strike. Let’s check out the ways RP4K balances fun and education. RP4K classes give children a mix of directly transferrable skills, like knowing how to understand and write code in specific, popular languages.

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Game Errors

JUNE 10, 2023

Gears of War 4, a third-person shooter video game, has generally received positive reviews since its release, with critics praising the combat, visuals, and set pieces, While the game has more pros than cons, most of the criticism has been directed at the campaign and writing. Go to the Details tab. Find the Gears of War 4 process.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

To me, a mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance. I’m making this up as I go along and even as I write this very sentence. The mechanic was so inelegant that it would have required a ton of rules to make the game balanced.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Make sure the balance is right. I’m writing this in 2018, and if I tell you what to do specifically, it probably won’t last to 2020. If you’re adding elements to your game through stretch goals, you need to make sure they are thoroughly play-tested. You need to make sure there are no breakdowns in your rules.

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Real Programming

JULY 12, 2022

The games kids play today are a high-art form all their own with incredible graphic design, script writing, problem-solving play, and more. RP4K lets parents and students enjoy a free trial lesson to dip a toe in the water and ensure the material hits the right balance of being challenging and stimulating without overwhelming kids.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

We are a small team working on our first team project, Lumencraft, which is released as I'm writing this. Since the path of a game developer is rarely straightforward, I ended up as an academic at the university doing PhD in skin cancer research, and as a part of not doing the PhD I started writing my own game engine.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 4, 2023

Or even better, write your own analysis and have it published in this newsletter. Remote workers report a worse work/life balance. To continue with the hypothesis, we can assume that cumulating anxiety bleeds into poor work-life balance as remote employees attempt to work harder to increase their job security.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This recap post / viewing guide covers only the first half of the series (episodes 01-17) and I'll try to write-up the second half later. Tim Schafer also has to refresh his writing workflow; should the blockout dictate the script, or the other way around, or how do you manage that back-and-forth? What's the balance?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Write and deploy smart contracts defining the policies for creating, trading, and owning NFTs in your game. Consider testing the game mechanics, overall balance, and user interactions to ensure a seamless experience for players. Here are some fundamental activities involved in NFT game development: Creating the game concept.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

The most common quantization used for this LoRA fine-tuning workflow is 4-bit quantization, which provides a decent balance between model performance and fine-tuning feasibility. QLoRA is a further optimization that reduces the precision of model weights to provide even greater advances in memory and space efficiency.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

I still want to get some more play testing done before I start writing these. Once you’re done writing all this, you’re in good shape. Tweaked some game rules to improve balance. Having your needs clearly documented helps artists out a ton. I was on vacation from May 19 to May 26. It was a long road trip.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 4, 2018

It's basically where you write programs that feed data (sometimes random data) into program's functions or modules and make sure you get the expected results or proper errors. No one of going to die or lose their entire bank balance because of our bugs. Why don't we unit test games like you would other software? But maybe I'm wrong.

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Filmustage

APRIL 10, 2023

They balanced the entire setup so that the camera was held by the third hand attached to the waistcoat, while the camera was pointed in the right direction with the cinematographer's hands. But few people realize that artificial intelligence is now also being used to analyze & write scripts, or even to produce a full movie.

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