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

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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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

It's probably not worth the hassle for a solo indie. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Destroy the player's expectation that relationship mechanic = main cast member. Sit and listen. Expendable companions.

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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.” I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment.

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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. A thousand hours of looter shooter game can't rely on story, so the player must be made to feel good with the game mechanics. That's the loop. The move part is always boring, and looting should always be fun. No suspense.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.”

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Is that new mechanic fun? 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.

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Interesting Choices

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Hokra is a 2v2 sports game where the teams are fighting over control of a single ball. A few simple mechanics (passing, zone control, sprinting, tackling) come together to make a deep and compelling multiplayer experience. When I began working on Hokra, I was just trying to program a simple passing mechanic.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). Limited regen (e.g.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past year, Hypercasual saw massive diversification in terms of core mechanic design. But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation.

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Yobob Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In the trailer, you can tell that these two siblings are fighting a lot. There won’t be any huge mechanics to show in the game, but a little nice story for you to enjoy. Prev Previous The First Tree Analysis – An Indie Game Marketing, Harvest Island Struggle. I would know because I have two younger brothers.

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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!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here. Concept Art.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 19, 2024

Like, you need their help, but they immediately make it clear they won't fight for free. A lot of successful indie games, like Pillars of Eternity and Disco Elysium, are fueled by the power of words It works. Then the precious, limited time and words could be used for plot mechanics and exposition. Which is all good.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 when I was making the original prototype, there were also two other gay cowboy things on my mind: Orville Peck's hit single "Dead of Night" and the gay indie romance film God's Own Country. When we idolize crisp clean superflat pixel art today, it's actually a new aesthetic invented by indie game devs from the late 2000s.

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