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In Vampire Hunters you need all of your six hands and a dozen guns to survive

PreMortem.Games

JUNE 27, 2023

It makes Vampire Hunters a frantic fps bullet hell that keeps players on their toes. “We We absolutely love coming up with new ideas and experimenting with crazy concepts.” We believed that an old-school FPS would be a perfect fit. However, after testing this concept, we thought, ‘Why not add another hand?’ And it was!”,

Concepts

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When we look at FPS games that have a story or a campaign mode, one of the flaws I see is the last boss and making it “feel” like a last boss fight. It always is either make the boss a bullet sponge and take 100 headshots, he dies in a QTE, or the player has so powerful a gun it trivializes the fight. Is this an inherent unsolvable problem with the FPS genre or can you think of FPS games that have come up with interesting, climactic, and “epic” boss fights?

Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are a number of clever and reasonable ways to work around these conflicting concepts. As a design exercise, can you think of other methods of a final FPS boss fight that maintains the boss's humanity but still makes it reasonably engaging? Here are a few general methods of doing this that I thought of off the top of my head.

Fighting

Fighting FPS Dev Concepts

[Fixed] SUPERHOT Crashing, Not Starting, Performance Issues

Game Errors

MARCH 17, 2023

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter with an amazing concept, time moves only when you move. The most common SUPERHOT issues that players reported on Steam Dashboard are crashing, not launching, black screen, and performance issues like low FPS, FPS drops, lag, that are making the game unplayable.

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Agile input processing is here for smoother, more responsive gameplay

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2021

Consider a game that wants its gameplay logic and physics to run at 60 FPS. If the device running the game is not powerful enough to keep everything at 60 FPS, the engine will run at a lower effective FPS rate. This new approach improves the responsiveness of the game in situations of lower-than-ideal FPS. beta and later.

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FPS Render Engine Engineering

Destiny 2 Preservation Mission Not Showing Up: How to Fix

Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

Although you are a fan of the FPS genre and SF themes, the game’s concept may turn you off even though you want to enjoy it. The primary campaign in Destiny 2 has a solid story that is easy to follow even when it’s your first encounter with motifs of this world.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #33

Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Concept Art. Now that our concept art team has nearly completed the designs for all existing assets and items in the Kristala build that needed to be replaced with fresh assets, they're now able to move on to creating brand new items that don't yet have 3D counterparts. 3D Modeling.

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Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If this sounds terrible, that’s because it is :P The performance of realtime software scaling is no good, with a first iteration tanking my FPS from 240 to 40, and that one wasn’t even working right. Once it got “fixed” the real FPS was more like 24, definitely far below acceptable. But it did work!

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Render Engine Engineering FPS

How to Create Video Game Atmosphere

Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere’ vs ‘Game-Feel’ In game development, there is also another closely related concept of ‘game-feel’. A great example of this is the FPS-puzzler Portal. Rather, each game is made great by a purposeful use of atmosphere that helps to communicate the developers’ vision for the world and how the player should feel about it.

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As a consequence, most Chinese players had only played CoD offline campaigns, since there were no official servers running in China, and their experience of the franchise was less around the twitch-y FPS brand CoD was known for, and more about cinematic single player missions.

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C++ Memory Management In Unreal Engine – What You Need To Know

Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Setting up the correct memory management from the very start is important because it will make sure our game plays on our desired FPS and we don’t get unneccesarry bugs in our game. Memory management is an important concept to understand so that you can manage your object properly and not cause any memory leaks in your game.

Engine

Engine Engineering AI Code

The three most important qualities in an RPG

Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Games” concept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). I tend to think that “genres” in videogames are believed in, or thought to be real in a way that is massively over-stated.

Fantasy

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Web 3.0: Crypto-currencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn

Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think the only way to understand this bubble – and to identify whether there is real value to be had here – is to understand the components, and then evaluate each scheme, investment or idea based on whether it benefits from the underlying opportunities from these four concepts, or whether it is simply a confection of ideas with no true substance.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

A mainstream audience, e.g.: an RPG, FPS or strategy game. The difference can be with either an innovative gameplay concept, or an art style that was not seen before in a game. Just try to picture who is going to play the game. Common answers are: Everyone, e.g.: this is a nice puzzle, tower defense, casual, etc. Making a prototype.

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Mastering Materials In Unreal Engine: The Complete Guide

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We also expect that you know and understand how nodes work and the Blueprint editor works overall as we will not explain these concepts in this tutorial. But if you’re creating a FPS game for example, or any other game from any genre, you’re going to use texture materials as well. Texture Materials.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The game says you must kill her first, like this, always -- and if she always dies so early, that means her concept doesn't get to interact with anyone else. Not that her concept makes much sense; why does this apocalyptic suicide cult leader like poison gas specifically? no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power).

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Fighting NPC Puzzle AI

Why Marvel Snap became a hit and for how long will it remain one?

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Snap has iterated on this concept by introducing cards with the ability to appear in specific turns (“Starts in your opening hand”, “You always draw it in turn 2”), thus removing the need for a mulligan (reroll) mechanic for the opening hand.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven