PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Manzano endured the rough times though and managed to finish the game and release it on Steam. The games he finds on Steam nowadays are hardly worthy of the term video game according to Manzano. The modern gaming ecosystem is killing true video games”, he says earnestly. Why did you become a solo developer? “I

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Jesper Juul

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity A study of the gruesome game characters we love to beat—and what they tell us about ourselves. Since the early days of video games, monsters have played pivotal roles as dangers to be avoided, level bosses to be defeated, or targets to be destroyed for extra points.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Virtual Reality (VR) gaming has taken the world by storm, offering players an immersive and unforgettable gaming experience. With technology constantly advancing, the gaming industry has been able to create some of the most amazing VR games in recent years. Beat Saber Beat Saber is a rhythm-based VR game.

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Rampant Games

JULY 27, 2022

Now trapped in an alien world, hunted for his non-functional “special abilities,” Aiden fights to survive against horrific creatures and determined enemies. Technically, it’s “gameLit,” meaning it borrows elements from gaming. He never dreamed he would become one of those disappearances.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 1, 2023

We can also make the boss do something to alleviate its human fragility, e.g. get into a mech suit/tank/giant death machine, mutate into a monster, or was never human to begin with - a demon, an alien, a monster, a robot, an angel, a dragon, a dinosaur, a god, whatever.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… 10 Best Space Games To Play in 2020 for FREE. In this post, we’ve rounded up the 10 best space games that you can play for free in 2020. All of the space games on this list are hand-picked by our team of space game connoisseurs. Looking for FREE Space Games to Play in 2020?

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Tom Francis

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

I took on a ‘Very Difficult’ mission in XCOM 2 earlier, to protect some device from attacking aliens. We immediately ran into two groups of very tough enemies, and though we had good position and lots of explosives, some unseen, extremely powerful enemy was attacking the objective every turn while we fought.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). As you might know, and I repeatedly keep saying, this game forms the practical part of my Master thesis. This work deals with the development and design of an open world game with a high.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Foley effects , also known as foley noise or simply Foley , are artificial sound effects utilized in the auditory architecture of films, television shows, sports broadcasts, and video games. Think of the creaking floorboards in "The Shining" that build suspense , or the dripping water in "Alien" that amplifies fear.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It's not good in basically the same way that Wheel of Time, The Witcher Season One, and the end of Game of Thrones are not good. End book/game. There is no real enemy in the story right now. Medieval fantasy about how honor is a sucker’s game might work. Why do the first few Game of Thrones books work?

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Game Design Advice

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I love Serpentes, a game by Benjamin Soulé that you can buy here , and I want to tell you why. Serpentes is a variant of the classic computer game Snake. Every time you eat a type of fruit it reveals one more of its qualities, so that by the end of the game every fruit you grab triggers multiple effects.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene. “I Exceedingly difficult The team first built the game in Unity. Ascent of Ashes is inspired by other games besides RimWorld as well.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

DOS games were those developed under this operating system. While some of the best DOS games can bring you back to wonderful memories of your younger years, they also laid the foundation for what we see in the gaming world today. What Makes A Good DOS Game? Did the game perform well for what it was? Best DOS Games.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures. I realised this for myself when trying to make a character for my game and the traditional way of setting up a skeleton (the sketches in the white box of the image) just gave me over and over again similar results. I just wanted a first impression of a possible in game view. Critique helps.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The enemy ship fires on the Eleos , destroying the shuttle sitting docked on the hull. Shaw attempts a parley with the alien captain, who identifies herself as Vadic, and Vadic gives him an ultimatum—turn over Jack Crusher or else. To demonstrate her seriousness, she flings the now-abandoned Eleos at the Titan.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

And it’s also not that difficult to get the talent to build these games as we developers want to make MOBAs because we love playing them on PC. But what is confusing is that MOBAs continue to get greenlit despite no evidence that these games could succeed in the Western markets. MOBAs struggle in the Western markets.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

Follow this guide to acquiring Quake and a suitable source port (aka game engine) or try the Quakestarter: The Quake Singleplayer Starter Pack (Windows only). There are two common ways to do this: - download a launcher tool like Simple Quake Launcher - OR create a shortcut with the command line parameter -game sinister625.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Written by Enrico D'Angelo Enrico was VP of Product at Activision Publishing running the Free to Play game portfolio and is currently a VP of Product at Roblox. The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your enemies maybe not so much. Cogmind generally has fewer such direct escape options, but teleport mechanics are out there, if an advanced tech not usually available until the late game. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors. Teleportation.

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