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6 Reasons Escape Rooms Will Make You a Better Board Game Designer

Brand Game Development

For as much as we talk about theme-mechanic unity here, it’s an ideal to be pursued and which is seldom truly met. In them, everything is a part of the game – the dimensions of the room, every prop, and every symbol. However, different people can focus on different puzzles. Escape Rooms are master classes in theme.

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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

The game artist develops the visual components of the game, which involve the characters, props, background, environment, and other visual elements. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. The game mechanics involve matching three or more candies of the same color to smash them.

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Interview: Jordan Weisman on Adventure Forge

Game Daily

First, we have the universe level where you establish things like game mechanics, abilities, characters, locations, statistics and so on. GameDaily: How do I, as someone with no coding experience and a lack of artistic talent, go about making a game in Adventure Forge? Jordan Weisman: It works on a couple of different levels.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #30

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Since embarking on the huge endeavor to completely revamp the entire Kristala demo, we've had our artists and modelers working hard to recreate some of the props and environmental elements that already existed in the original Dalamase demo level. Here's a look at just some of the props Harold was able to complete this month.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

link] [link] [link] In the last issue of the Kristala dev blog, we showed off some of the props our 3D Environmental Modeler, Cass, had been working on that will be used to detail the various water villages that comprise The Dalamase. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Take a look.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #33

Astral Clock Tower Studios

link] With the model for the amulet prop completed, Bianca then worked on designs for the three variants of Nisargan magic staffs that will be found in game, as well as the model for a magical, Myrtunan shiv weapon. Bianca wasn't the only modeler working on props this sprint. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #31

Astral Clock Tower Studios

For some items in the old version of the Kristala demo, we used stand-in props from the UE4 marketplace as place holders until we could create our own, custom designs and 3D models. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] Kristala Original Soundtrack.

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