Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Basement, teach player about buttons and door types, via two 512x512 quarter-rooms and small player-initiated fights 2. Halls, introduce wood barricades and more complicated fights, via two 512x1024 half-rooms of 2 waves each 3. My art pass also needed to punctuate Taufner's progression. The blockout has 4 beats: 1.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 14, 2024

With the Kickstarter right around the corner , I’d like to talk about Spellstorm’s breakthrough rule, one that made the game significantly more fun to play, and why that is. But sometime last year, it really became the game that it is now. The story of how BLAST SCORE was marked by the game is long and interesting.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Board game conventions have a certain mystique to them. As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re giving away a copy on the Pangea Games Facebook.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In any case, this game started out in late 2021 as a sequel to Dragon Bridge, my first card game. Over the last 10-11 months, and over 100 different numbered versions of the game, the game has evolved into… really, its own thing, and that’s why the title no longer reflects its Dragon Bridge origins.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Codex is a new take on customizable card games. Last week I posted a new Raw Game Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) where I discuss "reset buttons" in Codex (cards that blow up the board so you can possibly come back from a very bad position). Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game.

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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. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc. Patrons helped playtest and also just point out errors or give suggestions how to improve things. Instead.it's fun.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Showing your game to strangers for the first time can be a little nerve wracking. What we learned about the game. The feedback about the game was better than we could have hoped. People liked the game but there was also useful feedback (and observation) of where we can improve. Color me excited! In no particular order: 1.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Taught By Thirst is a new Mesoamerican themed single player Quake map that I made for Remix Jam , a 3 week community level design event where we all adapted multiplayer maps from other games for Quake. Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In addition to color, Barragán's brutalism offers another lesson for video game levels: sometimes you must have the courage to let a wall be a wall. In the past I've written about video game brutalism. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. How can you go back?

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

I also tried to tackle another design weakness of mine -- I rely a lot on fights with shotguns. But giving the player some of the most powerful weapons in the game, right from the beginning, quickly led to pacing problems. Compared to that, a big horde in an open space has more replay value and survives the dev grind a bit better.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 26, 2023

The player plays the game, reaches certain pre-determined requirements, and obtains discrete new rewards for doing so. Consider Dungeons and Dragons, the tabletop game. The character level in that game was practically vestigial. Nobody who played that game looked forward to leveling or cared what level they were.

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've been fascinated by board games that revolve around drafting for years now, and in early 2011 I wrote a post on the pillars that make these games click. I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. That would be bad :P. It made sense to wait as long as possible to carry out this process, but the wait is finally over! Exiles Prototypes.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The main drawback is clearly the massive heat generation, which had me running multiple cooling systems and/or injectors, and still sometimes backing off from larger fights to cool down. Any big new feature is likely to need some UI love, so for proper testing including game feel and convenience I added a few new relevant interface bits.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In the time since Garrisons were added, however, a combination of relevant changes to the game started putting pressure on their original design: Many more full branch maps were added, along with factions, each with their own enticing reasons to visit them compared to the weaker incentives for entering a Garrison.

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