Indie DB

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Mods now available for Core Keeper, the game where you mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." It's clear that we're cut from the same cloth and have similar experiences with competitive fighting games. Did you hear the news?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. Carlsen initiates with a gameplay sketch, and the art team starts building a 3D location. “We

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Sirlin

JANUARY 10, 2016

In this episode, I discuss an advanced kind of fighting game AI for the upcoming Fantasy Strike fighting game (playable builds for that available for higher tier patrons, btw). That same podcast link also has links to all the other episodes of Raw Game Design too, btw.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A jukebox feature isn't that difficult to build, it's just something that doesn't serve the intended experience for certain types of games. Several fighting games also sport a jukebox feature like Tekken and Guilty Gear, but it also exists in games like Payday 2 and Sonic Frontiers.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Yomi was "a fighting game in card form" that I made before making the actual fighting game Fantasy Strike. Now, Yomi 2 is a re-imagining of that fighting-card-game concept. There's a new "exchange" system that lets you swap certain cards from your hand with those in your discard pile to help you build the hand you want.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“What interested us as game makers is the idea of building worlds that have depth and substance to them. By building, crafting, exploring and fighting your goal is to become a skilled Realmwalker that finds their way through the portals to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 5, 2023

If you want to focus on improving your level design then building a platformer is going to be much more conducive to your goal than building a fighting game. If you want to focus on system design, building an RPG will offer a lot more opportunities to improve than building a visual novel.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2024

At first they made a list of characters they wanted to build the next game around, but soon found out that the prize wasn’t exactly an All Access Pass. , he says. “We We worked hard on our game and it created this opportunity. Sometimes you just need a little luck as well.”

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iHobo

MARCH 1, 2023

The 'fight' in 'fight or flight' is tied to this, and when we strive for victory at play, we are activating the same neurobiology that we would while struggling for survival - just in a make-believe way. .' It turns out it doesn't even matter if those that lose are imaginary!

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Game Errors

JUNE 22, 2023

Here are our top tips for becoming a better COD Warzone 2 player: Find the best drop location for your squad Get money and purchase a loadout early Keep up with the current Warzone 2 Meta Don’t shy away from gun fights Learn how to rotate successfully 1. A loadout is a build of weapons you customize to suit your play style.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Why did they always have to be about fighting?” She’s been with me every step of the way as I try to build a career in this industry.” It’s a great community for building relationships and networks, which is important in the games industry. One of those games was Street Fighter. Every two weeks, we had assignments.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

Firstly to Android (Google Play), then PC Steam* and later iOS if Apple allows my old MacBook to use their newer software to build apps for iTunes. Faction fleet battles are larger, with each side sending more ships to the fight. Help to keep frame rates smooth during bigger fleet fights with carrier builds.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Likewise, construction elements have become intertwined with the core mechanics of many titles, such as the Japanese-hit Slime Isekai Memories , where narrative progression is tied into its base building despite its focus as a turn-based RPG. Merge Vikings Combining merge2 mechanics with progressive character and building vectors.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Using frames as a specific time measurement is less helpful because development builds typically aren't optimized and may run at different frame rates based on what's going on. Some designers care about frames specifically too, but engineers and designers generally use milliseconds or decimal seconds (e.g.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gameplay programmers do a lot of setting up of rules for a particular game mechanic or system and building interfaces/tools for us designers to use to create specific bits of content to utilize those rules. Building the interface for designers to tweak combat-related parameters to create specific fights (e.g.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most of the time, we build in some form of debugging visualization to help us figure out what step of the AI decision-making process each AI is currently up to. Decision-making that requires certain timing, for example, can also result in this kind of state if the timing conditions for the next step doesn't get met.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Minigames are an important thing to have in an RPG: they can break things up, they can open new routes for worldbuilding and character building, and they can contribute to the worldishness of the game. Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. Forced Minigames.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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Jaunty Bear Games

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Each character should have their own motivations, personalities, and abilities, and the player should be able to build relationships with them over the course of the game. This might include elements such as swashbuckling sword fights, treasure maps, and a sense of adventure and danger.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

You and all the other players in the game play as Spirits who fight off the Invaders – basically, people who want to colonize your island. However, the only real offense Bringer has is the Dahan fighting back. Excellent at destroying buildings, less good at containing Explorers. Lightning’s Swift Strike.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 25, 2024

Once you have your set of tools and the primitive workbench, get ready to build your base. How to build your base in Palworld, and where? Build Pal Spheres and Catch Pals Use Wooden Chests Resource Generators Collect Lifmunk Effigies Get a Ridding Pal 1. How to build your base in Palworld, and where?

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Real Programming

JANUARY 15, 2024

Even the youngest students at RP4K’s weekly online coding classes learn to build their own video games using programming languages employers expect those they hire to know. As kids progress through the coding languages, they get to build more sophisticated games, but video games are always at the heart of what we do at RP4K.

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Filmustage

MARCH 11, 2022

Man has been fighting against nature all his life by building new cities and factories, but sooner or later everything old is swallowed up by nature. Then we are shown hysteria to build up the suspense, and afterwards a lot of computer graphics, how epically and dramatically cities are destroyed. 28 Days Later.". -

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this article, we'll explore some key building blocks of game design fundamentals. Combat mechanics - These rules govern how players engage in battles or fights within the game, such as turn-based combat, real-time combat, or using special abilities like counter-attacking.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. Fireplace Games build an elaborate system to make the characters say lines that make sense in the situation they’re in, but also to reply in a logical, but -most importantly- humorous way.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Building off of Taufner's solid blockout, I knocked holes in a lot of walls and ceilings to try to unify the rooms and give more breathing room, while ensuring they still played in roughly the same way. Basement, teach player about buttons and door types, via two 512x512 quarter-rooms and small player-initiated fights 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Informed of this insight, Nexter’s creative marketing team made hugely successful ads that appeal more to the thinking side of Hero Wars, not the fighting side. In addition, players are shown that they have time to think, calculate odds of success, and upgrade their heroes before taking on a fight.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Bandai Namco had previously teased the release of the new entry in the long running fighting series as we get our first impressions on Tekken 8. The dynamics in-game and in-combat would be very tough to get right as swords and guns do not usually work in tandem with each other in a fighting game. Like a Dragon Ishin.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. Yet once you conquer that danger, the game lets you take virtually any material you find in the environment and build with it. Furthermore, intuitive controls allow players to build skills and play around freely.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Tech buildings let you build more powerful units. Patreon has been the biggest surprise-great-thing to me in the last year.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. Videogames are a language, and this pattern is an important building block in that language. Kakariko Village from Ocarina of Time is one of my favorite towns. It is kind of good that you know you’re always safe in town.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Working on things like characters, dialogue, music, building a scene… there’s something just so human about this that I had really missed. Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights). I think my appreciation for narrative in games – in particular, 1 player games – has increased massively.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. The exchanges, the free-flowing and expressive combat and how satisfying it feels to land a hit.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

If you want to do anything more technically advanced than static monster placement in vanilla Quake, you basically have two options: (1) build a "monster closet" and open the door to start a fight, (2) build an inaccessible room filled with inactive teleporters, and trigger the teleporters to spawn-in monsters.

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