Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When designing a puzzle, a designer must think of the process by which the player interacts with them. Place and advertise the clues to the puzzle goal within the environment. This can be subtle or it can be obvious, depending on whether the puzzle is optional or part of the critical path.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Developer Globiss Interactive has worked hard to build a convincing virtual replica of the Titanic. The visual style definitely took us a while to decide on, as we weren’t sure if we had the capability to go for realism on the Quest platform”, says Frans Overman, one of the two brothers that make up the dev team.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Flight Simulator), rhythm games, puzzle games, and so on. It's much easier to outsource to a studio like Blur to do it for you than build engine support for it without adding a very expensive story mode to the game. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

That's why we were super excited when we learned that this year's fifth-annual Play NYC convention would be held in person (with tons of awesome precautions in place to ensure all devs, speakers, and attendees were kept safe and healthy). We can't wait to go back again next year! In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks for joining us for another exciting and epic issue of the Kristala Dev Blog. The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Greetings, beautiful beings!

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 2, 2023

You need to explain to the readers what you are building, why you are building it, and what you need in order to build it. When I write a design document, I usually try to address the following: High level goal - What is this feature/system/puzzle/etc. supposed to do? What kind of experience do I want the player to have?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 13, 2020

The game is full of mysteries, riddles, and puzzles. Some of the puzzles in Exit Games, much like in real-life Escape Rooms, are devilishly hard. Other puzzles are more obvious, but for whatever reason, you hit a wall and you spend 15 minutes making zero progress. Build a lasting brand so you can release multiple products.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Kristala at Play NYC 2021. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog. In conjunction with our biweekly Patreon updates , the dev blog is the only place where you can get detailed access to all things Kristala. Hey there, gorgeous! We hope you enjoy this month's updates, and we appreciate you being here and supporting us along this journey.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 The new official buildsystem that our contributor Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart ( hpvb ) set up for us is now quite efficient, so we can roll out builds fast and easily.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog! We'll be sure to keep you posted on all the sweet deets as we near our Patreon launch date, so be sure to stay tuned to our socials and public dev blogs for updates and announcements (including an exciting kick-off contest where you can snag a FREE PS5 ).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Welcome back to ACS headquarters for another rousing installment of the Kristala game dev blog. We can't say too much just yet, but you're definitely gonna wanna tune into next month's dev blog to see how ACS kicks development into high gear. Stay tuned to next month's dev blog issue for a look at the finished piece!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog! This month, in addition to our typical development sprints, we've also been hard at work prepping a super special convention build of Kristala for the upcoming Play NYC convention. Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. If you're just joining us, welcome!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. Hello, loyal Kristalans and faithful fantasy fanatics! 3D Asset Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Welcome back to another installment of the Kristala dev blog. Since we last met, we've been kicking dev for Kristala into high gear and we're super stoked to share everything we've been working on over the past month. In other programming news, we recently added a new Gameplay Programmer, Rodrigo, to our game dev team.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? Stay tuned to the Kristala dev blog—and to all our socials—to learn how you can get exclusive, behind-the-scenes access into Harold's entire, step-by-step process.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Plus, we'll introduce you to three of our newest talented dev team members too! Welcome back to the fantasy, friends! 3D Asset Design.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2019

stable, we plan to release beta builds frequently to have broad testing on the latest fixes and spot any regression. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.1 Mono build (C# support + all the above). So we're now publishing Godot 3.1

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We're so happy you're joining us for another epically magical installment of the Kristala Dev Blog! This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Clash Quest 101 In terms of gameplay, Clash Quest can be categorized as a blast-based midcore Puzzle game with some RPG components.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Kristala Official Gameplay Trailer.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There are other ways to build a game on a budget. Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game. And Kaigan Games did a great job building relatable and believable characters. Developing an AI is beyond most budget games – AI Dungeon manages to understand what the player is saying and builds on the story.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Operating as Gerel, players will explore the whimsical land of Muur, meet some of the quaint and quirky locals, battle enemies using melee combat, and unlock new areas by solving puzzles on a quest to reclaim her children. Alan's advice for applying for an Epic MegaGrant is to have a playable build. Gerel battling enemies. Dogyeong L.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

The dice are bright and pretty, as are the puzzle boards on which you build stained glass arrangements of dice. It’s ultimately a puzzle game, but a very attractive one with some subtle elements that arise from it being a nearly perfect information game where players draw from the same draft pool.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. The other downside is these really are the dev tools we used to make the game, and like most in-house dev tools, they are poorly documented and very crude around the edges. Today it's easy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For developers, Steam Next Fest is an opportunity to get early feedback from players and build an audience for a future launch on Steam. Dark Crypt by @DaisyGames3 is a puzzle game with a horror setting, well on topic for the spooky season! Hashi: Light by amiksemo is a minimalist and casual puzzle game with a ton of puzzles to solve.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 8, 2019

He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! When elements are randomized at the beginning of the game, I feel as though each time I play it is a new puzzle to solve. 3) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. His unedited original post can be found here.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! In my Tasty Humans Designer Diary posts so far, I have focused on the puzzle aspect of the game. The design process really started with the puzzle. 4) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release. Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact.

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AWS Games

JULY 21, 2022

AWS Control Tower orchestrates the capabilities of several other AWS services, including AWS Organizations, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Cloudtrail, AWS Config and AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) to build a landing zone, a multi-account environment meant to hold your associate accounts, compliance standards, guardrails, and single sign-on directories.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. But on a few Dikus, it led to making quests too, and it was actually a lot easier to build quests in a “quest system” than to one-off hand code them in an LP mudlib that didn’t implement a “system” for it. This, in fact, was what my signature design style was.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! It was clear that it would have something to do with pattern-building and positioning tiles in specific arrangements. These elements combine to create the central puzzle of each turn in Tasty Humans.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2021

I started with Visionaire Studio because you can build something pretty substantial without any code, but it helped me understand the fundamentals. As ever the joy of game development is bringing each puzzle piece together and seeing the final result. It was an artsy enough course that you could go ahead and do things like that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio. Mobile gaming megatrends Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo. Each different game audience needs a different economy.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On the other hand, playing Tasty Humans has short turns, which helps the game stay snappy even though it’s a brain-burny puzzle game. If you can give your game a story, you build a whole world of context that draws patterns in the mechanics and the theme. The mere threat is usually enough to keep the game going.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. For me personally, I’m still working on building the marketing agency. After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. You have to very slowly build your reputation. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” They are such a critical credibility-builder for new game devs. Don’t broadcast. Narrowcast instead.

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