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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,…
In the last part, we talked about how scripts communicate 1 on 1. Today we will see how one script can communicate indirectly with as many scripts as they want. Let’s start with an example We have a player that…
There are a lot of ways to communicate between gameobjects. So many that sometimes it might get confusing to decide how to do that. Here I’ll go one by one and generally describe use cases for each so that you…
One of the most important aspects of game design is the core mechanic. It sets the foundation for a great game and determines its overall success. But what makes a core mechanic truly great? According to the book Clockwork Game…
Hypercasual market is getting harder and harder to crack. With excessive prototypes in the market, getting one with good KPI numbers is difficult. But when you do it’s necessary to ensure it has a very good LTV (Life Time Value).…
Welcome back! Time to continue our journey with our hypercasual game. What we were missing in the last episode was enemies and we will get into it now. An enemy works similarly to the person that we have in the…