PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics. This prototype had many worlds, and a lot of the focus was on jumping between them.
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
The core engine is what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. Game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life. What are game mechanics?
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PreMortem.Games
MARCH 1, 2024
As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. 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. But that’s not all.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.” Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. 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!
Radiator Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. This early prototype felt weird to play, because the player could just run around the big open landscape and lead monsters on a big chase.
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. First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.
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