The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 15, 2024

were covered under the same rules as "Fighting men." Every group had their own homespun tangle of ways to actually run a fight. And amusing utility items that you use like two times and then die in a fight with 4 orcs because Rope of Climbing sucks. Basic D&D was its own separate rules system and went up to level 3.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Please join us on our own little walk down 2023 memory lane. See you in 2024! The post So long 2023! Thank you for the great game dev stories appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

As part of the early organisational crew of Indie MEGABOOTH, I was running back and forth between the Vlambeer booth & my other responsibilities – which made me oddly anonymous as a developer to entire groups of people. The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

I've been writing indie (aka shareware) games as the nearly sole source of my family's income for 30 years. During those decades, I've written a ton about the indie business, for money and on my blog. My most popular article , written wayyy back in 2013, was about the creation of the Indie Bubble. And indie games!

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. This way, the game never stays in one specific gear for too long.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Having a solid, realistic plan is everything.”

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Kenyan indie developer cherishes that early morning spark. He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. As a child, he was delighted by action-packed animations like Kung Fu Panda and was drawn to stick-figure animations, particularly for their captivating fighting scenes.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The high visual polish and stellar production values adorn a solid but predictable gameplay loop: you fight through dungeons with random rooms / enemies, collect resources, and bring them back to your hub to build up your village and its inhabitants.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) What Brings This To Mind, Part One I wrote a blog post about indie hit, Vampire Survivors, a very good and much loved game. is being able to summon hordes of disposable monsters to fight for you. Now it is time to decide who MUST love me.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Remember - as an indie developer you won’t please everyone Watch the stream from 1:11:30 to see Rick and Tim’s early (and awkward) YouTube videos :D What Are Games That Play Themselves? However, being an indie game developer is a different proposition. They’re games that require little to no input from the player.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

The bull case : AI will supercharge indie developers allowing them to challenge large AAA by removing production constraints. This in turn would give more power to quality developers that hold IPs while killing the indie scene with a flood of copycat products. Fighting against the AI revolution is not the answer.

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Generally, unless you write a hit and get super-rich, the best thing you can do is find a solution that is tolerable and lets you fight another day. Indie video games are a 2 BILLION dollar a year industry now. If you’d like to support us, consider wishlisting our upcoming indie role-playing epic, Geneforge 2 - Infestation.

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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. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. The exchanges, the free-flowing and expressive combat and how satisfying it feels to land a hit.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 8, 2022

Inscryption is Terrific There's this indie game called Inscryption. Games like this are where indie games shine brightest. Someone wants to quit a job to write indie games for a living. It's easy to do 10 or 12 fights in a night if people pay attention. Just beat this boss. I am old and bad at games. I really love it.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I was focused hard during this time on learning as much as I could about game design, focused on “efficiency” and elegance in design, which is what brought me to crunchy rulesets like those of designer Eurogames and the indie Rogue-likes-and-company world. Random Encounters that are Encounters (not just fights).

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help. To get that feeling, you need to know how fighting works, so you HAVE to find the tutorial. Fortunately, as long as the rest of the game is good, people will only complain. The game is already huge.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the parents fight their way through the crawl-space, attic, clock, and extra-planer wonderlands in their house, you will hear them whine, complain, and deliver constant passive-aggressive insults. It skips from action to pvp games to puzzles to boss fights with blinding speed. This is a really fun game.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. Plus a chatty heroine that flogs her enemies with a sharp sword and even sharper one-liners.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 5, 2023

This is why Video Games will always fight with High Art. There Is, Of Course, a Place For Honesty In Video Games Mainly indie games that last less than 3 hours. I mean, they'll sell good for an indie game. The Grand Theft Auto games have unlikeable protagonists, and they are enormously successful. And that's all.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Alex and Ovi receiving the Indie Prize at Dev-Play. Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Meeting other indie devs is really cool. Totally worth it just for this.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

We’ve seen mid-sized and indie devs find great success on PC by operating outside platforms like Steam; Battle State games is one great example. We’ve just finished the first round of this fight, with many more to come. This is an area I’m really keen to see evolve. What is the effect on the app ecosystem as a whole?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Unreal is a better solution for big games, and Unity is more popular among indie developers. What Are The Pros Of The Unity Game Engine?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Wanna get a peek at a previously unrevealed level area Ian's been working on that will serve as the arena for the Kristala demo boss fight?

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 1, 2022

This goes double if they just finished a huge boss fight and are full of adrenaline. Our next game, Queen’s Wish 2: The Conqueror , an all-new, innovative, Empire-building indie RPG, comes out for Windows & Mac on August 24. They need a pause to switch mental gears from playing to watching and to realize what is happening.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures!

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What made the Galadriel troll fight so exciting was the suspense about whether this main character of the whole story was going to get killed three minutes into the first episode of a prequel. She never got in a fight. I’m sure we can all agree, however, that all this was goofy wheel-spinning. Consider this. Why was she a badass?

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Filmustage

MAY 3, 2021

Netflix produced indie American cinematography in the face of neo-noir "Uncut Gems" by Joshua and Benjamin Safdie, and provocative "El hoyo" by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. Nevertheless that was a tough fight - Chloé Zhao and her team did a great job and produced a very humane and beautiful picture. 100% worth-watching!

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. So, almost two years ago I decided to fully embrace the indie path and became a solodev.” The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

FNF is the most recent smash hit indie rhythm game (which is also open source!), Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Friday Night Funkin' VR (FNFVR) is a VR recreation of Friday Night Funkin' (FNF). and it's like if DDR had the style of PaRappa the Rapper.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. Originally launched back in 2019, Dicey Dungeons was an immediate hit indie game. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But despite all of that, Terry Cavanagh nailed the transition.

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Filmustage

MAY 14, 2021

But when Bronson fails to obtain his goal the guy becomes an enemy, the guy who represents failure and lost hopes, he wears blue and the fight itself is on blue background. And prison as the main argument of character failure also proposes blue clothes. Not only the state usage of color is significant.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. Indie gamers, e.g.: People looking for cool, smaller games to play, no matter the type. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc. a fighting game), is animation. Starting over, is the game commercially viable?

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. Unless actually fighting a boss fight. If you’d like to support us, consider wishlisting our upcoming indie role-playing epic, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. That's the loop. The move part is always boring, and looting should always be fun. No suspense.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. But to smaller studios, the updated fee structure is a financial threat.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There will always be fights. Then I pick fights that will not overly distract me from my first work: creating. I don't back down from every fight, but I am prepared for others to fight back. Our new game, Queen’s Wish 2: The Conqueror , an all-new, innovative, Empire-building indie RPG, is out for Windows & Mac.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight. Two problems with this.

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