Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

You and all the other players in the game play as Spirits who fight off the Invaders – basically, people who want to colonize your island. Balanced asymmetry leads to greater variety. The trick, of course, is to make sure all varying powers are definitely distinct while remaining balanced. Lightning’s Swift Strike.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game follows the template of many open-world RPGs, with players invited to freely explore, climb, glide, and fight their way through the vast region of Teyvat as they take on various quests and activities. Genshin Impact’s turn-based TCG minigame, Genius Invocation.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils. Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

Force players to balance tactics and strategy. Pandemic forces you to balance tactics and strategy. If you are constantly running around and fighting disease, especially if that entails direct or charter flights, it will be much harder to reach a research station and find a cure to each disease. Oh, and you will get punished.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. Seem like a monster to balance? As you scroll, you notice people write reviews in a way that implies the balanced nature of the asymmetrical design is surprising. So what exactly is Root ? Really enjoyed.”

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Raph Koster

JUNE 28, 2024

The Servitors fight off the tentacled spores of the hivemind Cornucopia that infects worlds. Combat isn’t balanced. They’re long gone now — and we should probably be pretty terrified of whatever chased ’em off. It’s time to move from stealth to bringing the community along on the journey.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

By building, crafting, exploring and fighting your goal is to become a skilled Realmwalker that finds their way through the portals to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity. An area that springs to mind is just the balance of survival systems. Listen to your community”, says Flynn. “We

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. This balance opens the game up to several strategies as to how to play the game. Two giant fans of Team Fight Tactics.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

Faction fleet battles are larger, with each side sending more ships to the fight. Help to keep frame rates smooth during bigger fleet fights with carrier builds. Ship re-balancing: The goal is to make lighter ships more viable longer towards the mid & late-game, by improving firepower. Prepare for epic battles!

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 12, 2023

As you might expect, numerical balance values like 10% higher stun duration, 8% less HP, or an extra 5% critical hit rate are often built to be easy to change because we expect to have a lot of things in the game that can change them. Fighting games, for example, tend to make animation changes regularly because of the way they are built.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My “The first four years were almost absolute happiness. I enjoyed what I was doing very much. The last four years were hell.”

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

A Few Final Comments When a computer RPG has a very complex terrain system with lots of elevations, it becomes tempting to have every fight be complex with a spread of enemies at all sorts of different heights. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Also, casting fireball is fun. Nicely done.

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Sirlin

MAY 4, 2015

Read on for all the latest updates in this version of Yomi, or check out this post on Designing Yomi to learn more about the game itself or this post about Game Balance and Yomi to see what goes into balancing hundreds of matchups. Yomi is a fighting game in card form and it's the competitive card game you should be playing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New Entrants are Struggling to Break-In While elder games have been fighting over a stagnant TAM of players, new entrants have struggled to gain traction into the market. Balancing this with the core gameplay experience is a major challenge but necessary for long-term success.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Some of these could be obtained by playing through the event, while others required in-app purchases, so there was a balance in trying to keep all players relatively happy. PUBGs mobile crossovers are a great example, letting players unleash Dragon Ball energy beams and fight alongside Evangelions towering mecha.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

You play as members of the CDC fighting four pandemics, each of which are constantly threatening to wipe whole metropolitan areas off the map. There’s a lot of factors to balance, and communicating with your team for long enough to coordinate actions is critical. That alone is enough to make it special, but it’s no one-trick pony.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 16, 2015

@SirlinGames www.facebook.com/SirlinGames New and revised characters for the popular fighting card game round out cast to 20 available characters throughout 2015. Yomi simulates the mind games and other strategic choices found in video fighting games without requiring that players have the dexterity required to master those games.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

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. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. I think there’s a few takeaways: To give people a sense of autonomy, balance your game to where multiple strategies are viable ways of winning. Minecraft and its unexpected rise were like something out of a movie.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In Genshin Impact, players need to invite the other player to their game or vice versa, whereas in Tower of Fantasy, players can meet other players in the shared open-world, where they can intuitively interact with them and invite them for open-world exploration and fighting. This makes interacting with players much easier.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Though you might as well wait until next week because there will be a balance update within a week. Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game. Last and certainly not least, I plan to post a new playable version of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep fighting game (for the $25+ patrons).

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight. These are perfectly balanced.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again. Too “balanced” Strategy games can’t really be too balanced, but RPGs easily can, and most that come out these days, are. In the strategy game realm, you solve this by having enough complexity.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

Fighting the same boss a few times is ok if the game is fun. Balancing One Game Is Hard. Balancing Two Games At a Time Is Impossible Allegedly, Elden Ring doesn't have different difficulty levels. Which means fighting the enemies toe to toe with no help. No matter who you are, Elden Ring is balanced to be unsatisfying.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Melee – a unique fighting game that got a new lease on life as people exploited glitches and created a new form of completion. In a game I co-designed with Matt Greenleaf, which is currently unpublished, I had come up with a mechanic that was whenever a player made a move, the game state would either go to imbalance or balance.

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OPM Jobs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

How to Fight Through Job Search Anxiety Maintaining a positive mindset throughout your job search journey is pivotal. Balance is key! The waiting can be prolonged, and you may not even know how long you should expect to wait. Some employers may not even get back to you at all. It’s nerve-wracking and can trigger feelings of self-doubt.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 23, 2015

You're also invited to give feedback on Patreon about balance issues. That said, it won't make sense to make balance claims right off the bat. All the money goes to paying for artists on Codex and also for artists and programmers on the Fantasy Strike fighting game.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

It upset the whole drafting balance. For example, if you’re making a fighting game with Life, Stamina, and Endurance trackers, consider simplifying that into one piece of data, such as HP. That meant your opponents could box you in with traffic, which made the more connected northeast more attractive.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.” Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

This presents a balanced dataset which is crucial when building machine learning models because it helps ensure the model works well and prevents bias. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model. Name the file game-features-balanced. Uncheck all columns selected in game-features-balanced.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Striking the right balance between revenue generation and player experience is essential. Cons: Potential for P2W (Pay-to-Win): If not balanced carefully, this can lead to a pay-to-win dynamic, where players who spend more have an unfair advantage. But what is the ideal way to monetize a game, if there is one?

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

They help each other progress through the game, participate in co-op events, and fight other guilds for world map control. With battle passes, the right balance in areas such as pricing, rewards, and duration must be found – if the pass offers too great of a reward, you might risk jeopardizing other monetization elements in the game.

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Sirlin

APRIL 8, 2015

Yomi is a fighting game in card form and it's the competitive card game you should be playing. Just like in a fighting game, you have to learn your character's strengths and weaknesses, read your opponents' tendencies, and land combos when you can. (It's already on iOS, the web , and in physical form.)

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Filmustage

JULY 31, 2023

Francis Ford Coppola's " The Godfather" (1972) is an exquisite example of how a narrative with a balanced plot structure , a thought-provoking theme , an engaging genre , an intense climax , and a satisfying resolution can keep audiences on the edge of their seats. ? Brad Pitt in Fight Club (1999).

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But, as I talked about above, it’s a new KIND of deckbuilder, in a bunch of ways: Eight asymmetric, fighting game style characters with their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. It’s a deckbuilder! There’s been so much trial and error getting everything to be intuitive and feel right.

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