Clear visuals are crucial for puzzles. The player should be able to do the next action in 1-3 seconds. It was taking longer in our game. A clunky onboarding can break a game. The output should be predictable given an input. Merging game mechanics can work when they complement each other
Our mistake in the previous version was forcing a mechanic that didn’t belong. Randomly mixing genres rarely works unless the mechanics naturally reinforce the core. In this version, by focusing on the basics i.e., gun feel, enemy reactions, and simple progression, we saw a clear jump in engagement, even though retention didn’t improve much.
Not everyone has a Mac, duh! It doesn’t mean it should stop us from creating games for the App Store. I am creating this post as a go-to post for you and me to create a cloud-build setup for Unity…
We all have our ways of coming up with ideas. Some people do not need any processes to do that. They think, suddenly their eyes light up and they say, ‘What if we….’ I’m not that. Rarely I have had…
I think the roguelite choices were not meaningful enough. In survivor.io, there are 2 main control points of the player: Movement and Shooting. Movement is controlled by the user, and the shooting is controlled by the skill choices. It was deeply meaningful because the choices carried weight. Each choice modified the player in a significant way that impacted the power. The change was visual and striking.
I wanted to share a performance optimization step by step on a game so here it is. This is a third-person shooter which means it is viewed from the player’s perspective more or less. This is important when optimizing. The…
To improve the powerful feeling, I added props that are destroyed when shot. I also made ammo infinite, and made it so that when shooting too much, the gun becomes hot and stuck. So users would need to stop and then shoot again when it gets close to maximum temperature. This improved the ‘power’ feeling
The games we will analyze today are all puzzle match games where the players try to match items based on certain conditions. The aim is to understand the match games in depth, and how different developers added their own twists…
Let’s break down the design of Best Fiends. Yes, it’s ‘Fiends’ not Freinds. At its core, it’s a Connect 3 gameplay. The core is then combined with RPG elements in a clever way. Each colored item represents an element (Leaf,…
I don’t save the API key anywhere. This is an embed of my app that is hosted in Streamlit. You can also try it directly from there