Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There's a Portal-like moment where you escape the puzzle. Can't wait for the full frontal in the next game!) Wayward Strand by ghost pattern This is a young adult sidescrolling storybook sort of game about hanging out on a steampunk airship recommissioned as a flying hospital / retirement home in rural Australia circa 1980.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. 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.” Making games is different to making anything else. Game development takes so long! “Try

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Played with Fire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Complex puzzles, a dynamic combat system, or advanced interaction with the environment are just a few options to consider when creating a VR game for this target group. Designing VR games for advanced players requires a combination of creativity and a deep understanding of technology and user expectations.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

He decided to start his own indie game development studio, Overwrite Interactive , and create a video game from scratch. For Alan's video game to come to fruition, he needed a team of capable artists to help him. The team updated the game earlier this year to include health bars. Gerel battling enemies.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By the way, artists sometimes offer interesting and unusual solutions by mixing low poly with other styles to create amazing in-game experiences. This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. Fantasy realism is used for games full of movement, action, and drive. Fantasy Realism.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our tiny company has been earning (well, "earning") a good living making indie computer games for 27 years now. We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. A really solid story in an indie game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya). The profiles make me think of something indie-looking.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The main benefit of supporting C# is that, all of a sudden, Godot will become a more-than-tempting option to the indie and corporate cultures who are used to products supporting this language. in a way they can expose the coarse parameters and logic to level designers or game designers. with small effort.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

He is a highly successful indie game creator who makes really good action games (Salt and Sanctuary is the best-known one.) My games, by the modern standard, look like absolute dogs. Yet, I'm going to have a full career writing indie games. Video games have similar terms: "RPG." Metroidvania."

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Starting over, is the game commercially viable? This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. And no, it's not the scope that makes the game viable or inviable. A lot of articles you read about making a successful game will tell you to keep your scope small to avoid risks.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On the other hand, a lack of atmosphere, or an atmosphere that is at odds with the game’s mechanical and narrative design can be off-putting to players and lead to poor reception. It’s also important to consider that the bar for video games is being set ever higher, even for indies.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. No point in having to solve the same puzzle over and over. Never be afraid to edit you game down if it needs it.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Doggo leads to an enormous, entirely optional area with tons of creative fights, fun puzzles, and neat stuff to do. It was the only place where the game just took a breath and relaxed and laid off the emo drama and let me play God of War. As I grow older, I find I want to strip the unnecessary out of my game designs.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

On looking deeper, it was found that this was driven by two things - 30-35% of the growth was driven by increased IAP integration in various hypercasual mini-genres, most notably Puzzle. The remaining was driven by two titles - “ Crane Game Toreba ” and “ Clawee ” - which together raked in ~$45M over 2019. Ad revenues not included.

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