The Liquid Fire

APRIL 1, 2024

” – Wayne, Wayne’s World Overview In this lesson, I would like to start migrating away from the “Solo Adventure” idea toward a game that supports a full hero party. Toward that end, I will remove the old SoloHeroSystem and then add features to aid in constructing a full hero party.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a Sonic series game that isn’t really talked about much for this week’s Retro Game Friday. Gameplay: This plays like a somewhat typical Sonic game but also includes elements from third person shooters, of all things. It’s Shadow the Hedgehog.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 25, 2023

Gaming is very often used as way to escape from lifes troubles and unwind. And it’s no secret that games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing got many people through lockdowns and pandemic chaos. Idle games in general are great, it’s just watching numbers go up – You dont really have to do anything.”

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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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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Why are certain games popular right now?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. She earned her place and represented South Africa at prestigious programs like the Epic Games Women Creator Program and the Women in Games International (WIGI) Mentorship Program.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In my last post about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Z:TotK for short), a very popular game, I suggested that people would be interested in thoughtful criticism of slightly older games, once the dust has settled and people had the chance to calmly reflect about them. Most people don't actually care about deep dives into game design.

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Game Analytics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Using these rules will set the foundation of your game’s narrative. Consider a shared story. You might not want to go into a huge amount of detail for every game you create (especially if you’re working with hyper-casual or casual titles – which have notoriously short lifespans). All use the same characters in each game.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

The charm of this game is off the charts and is the main thing that makes me love it. There’s just so many creative, brilliant, fun to look at, surprising situations – the dev team had a ton of fun making a lot of the game. The “story” in this game is really just… very awful, I’m sad to report.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. And for that debut the duo came up with an enticing mix of elements that really sets the game apart. “I But that’s not all.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 3, 2023

I think “the developers vision, as talked about by game hobbyists” usually means whatever the particular game hobbyist likes or believes in most. Instead, most gaming hobbyists will project their own desires and thinking onto the dev team because most people are not very good at trying to see things from alternate perspectives.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2023

‘ Harold Halibut started life as a conversation over dinner about our love of stop-motion and story games.’ It sounds like the opening line of a documentary about one of the most remarkable games ever made. None of us would have expected to be making an elaborate, ten year, puppet based game opus. But we did!”

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game? Source ).

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Hero King: This is a reincarnation story that I’ve had the pleasure of reading the first volume from the original Light Novel of, and I enjoyed it enough that this has piqued my interest. It’s definitely not a typical reincarnation story though since it doesn’t deal with someone from Earth.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Laurie (Avocado Fire) to discuss stories in video games. In this Livecast they talk about the story in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Cloudpunk amongst other topics related to storytelling in video games. The Game or The Story? (57:33 Which Comes First?

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While intellectually I knew that the backstories for Rok and Jankom Pog weren’t going to be full of sunshine and rainbows, Prodigy once again startled me with just how dark Rok’s story really was. Zero prods Rok to share her story so he won’t feel quite as a lone. Jankom’s was more existentially terrifying, but it was no less tragic.

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Today, games are still not as diverse as they should be in the modern world. The games industry can do better than this. Transgender people play games and transgender people work in the games industry.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Plot: The plot is okay, it’s a fairly standard Fantasy story with the premise “Hero journey out and defeat the Demon King” story. For those who like: Fantasy, Unusual Stories, Slice of Life, Drama. The post Anime Sunday: Banished Slow Life Episode 01 Impressions appeared first on Game Industry News.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Budgeting forces you to prioritize and identify the elements that drive your story. Source: timeout.com Location Scouting: The Unsung Hero of Filmmaking ? Even in fantastical films, believable settings ground the story and make it relatable. A chipped wall might tell a story of neglect, adding depth to a character's world.

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Jaunty Bear Games

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Some parts of the game and levels may ring a bell. That’s probably because I’ve been greatly inspired by existing games in some areas. In the game, the hub is a top-down view of the world, a small world map with various nodes for levels. A simple introduction to the game. Building a hub world. A hub gives structure.

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Game Industry News

JULY 5, 2023

Unfortunately for him, he screwed up by getting in the way of the intended hero of the story, so she just dumps him somewhere in the woods with no way back. This series takes more inspiration from 4X style games like Civilization than RPGs like Final Fantasy or Skyrim. Not for those who don’t like: Any of the above.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. Plus a chatty heroine that flogs her enemies with a sharp sword and even sharper one-liners.

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 13, 2023

You can “start” a “New Game” but nothing is really happening under the hood. In this lesson we will connect the menu selection to the process of actually creating a game. Create a new folder in Assets -> Scripts named Game. The application flow can decide to start another game flow if it wants to.

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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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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

A demo version of our great Jaws & Claws game is now available. Jaws & Claws” is a mix of such genres like 2D-platformer, fighter, beat’em up, party game. Iggy, Rhino, Frosty, King, Mini, Jabber, Lupin, Catsu-Hero, Bosch, Tenrek, Sever. Iggy, Rhino, Frosty, King, Mini, Jabber, Lupin, Catsu-Hero, Bosch, Tenrek, Sever.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 28, 2023

But I do it in a highly popular, successful, vibrant, undervalued medium (video games) instead of a respected, posh medium that nobody cares about (books). My almost thirty year fantasy-writing career has been very prolific (18 all-new games!) The tragic heroes of Ancient Greece and Shakespeare are creatures of fantasy.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Now that the games industry has witnessed more than 9.000 layoffs this year, we have to seriously reconsider how the educational system is operating. I strongly disagree with the perspective that game development education should focus on AAA jobs. Recreating literally sometimes the same heroes and looks.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

The video game industry is a huge and consistent segment of the market. Video games are the first choice for millennials as well as adults who can’t get their childhood gaming addiction off their heads. Every day, new games are released across all platforms, each focusing on a distinct genre.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention). Why implement minigames?

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The Liquid Fire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Overview We have a variety of aspects that can be applied to a hero such as ability scores, level, and skills, so now we need to tie it all together and create the hero itself. The approach we will take is to create project assets (prefabs) that serve as a sort of recipe by which we can create heroes and creatures.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The game also features some nice little tweaks to the gameplay that differentiate it from its rivals.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Plot: The plot is pretty solid, the top two pros of a game called Legend of Heroes 2 are reincarnated into the bodies of their favorite characters from the game, Jude Bayer and Cordelia Chase (no not that one from Buffy), who also just happen to be engaged, almost immediately prior to the start of the story.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will add animated sprites to represent both a hero and monster. I recommend checking out the other heroes: cleric, ranger, rogue, and wizard. Both the warrior (hero) and rat (monster) are animated. I only care about facing left and right, though if I were making a top-down game I might want other directions as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Veteran Technical Director James Marr Answers: What Makes A Great Game Engineer? More than ever, user acquisition teams must rely on machine learning and AI to find the right audiences for their games and apps. So we conducted research and we found out that 80% of the time players spend in Hero Wars is spent on the menus.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Every hero and monster will have them, and larger numbers for this stat represent something that can absorb more damage and thus is harder to kill. Dying is yet another stat that can be applied to an Entity, but for our solo adventure, it will be used to determine when combat ends and the story can resume.

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