Tag: games

Baby Steps’ designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of ‘plausible’ climbing challenges they didn’t even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one

Baby Steps’ designers trolled…

There is a style of game design built around rigorous playtesting and polish, aiming to smoothly guide the player…
Baby Steps’ designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of ‘plausible’ climbing challenges they didn’t even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one

Baby Steps’ designers trolled…

There is a style of game design built around rigorous playtesting and polish, aiming to smoothly guide the player…
How to beat Vantom in Slay the Spire 2

How to beat Vantom…

In Act 1 of Slay the Spire 2, Vantom is the toughest of the three bosses you can encounter.…
Marathon’s murderous audio change was an ‘overcorrection,’ Bungie admits, promises to pull it back in an upcoming update

Marathon’s murderous audio change…

PC Gamer’s Morgan Park had a rough night in Marathon a couple days ago. He initially attributed it to…
‘No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:’ After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody’s ever gotten RPG difficulty right

‘No matter what we…

In a talk at the Game Developers Conference, Obsidian senior systems designer Robert Donovan spoke about dialing in the…
Palworld’s Bucky got off a plane to find ‘about 8,000 Discord messages from Palworld fans’ who really wanted him to know about Pickmon: ‘God bless their little hearts’

Palworld’s Bucky got off…

Being highly active with the community for a videogame must mean your DMs are a perpetual nightmare of notifications,…
Dead By Daylight devs reckon the game has ‘at least’ another 10 years in it

Dead By Daylight devs…

In June this year, Behaviour Interactive’s Dead By Daylight will celebrate ten years of release: quite the feat for…
Arc Raiders’ devs didn’t expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd

Arc Raiders’ devs didn’t…

The Arc Raiders developers have said in the past that during development playtests that preceded launch, raiders were behaving…
2 years after its announcement, FF14’s monster-taming Beastmaster job finally arrives this year, along with what looks like a Slay the Spire-esque roguelike mode

2 years after its…

Final Fantasy 14‘s next big patch, 7.5, will be dropping next month—and in subsequent updates will be adding Beastmaster…
‘It was supposed to be the greatest time ever’: Jeff Kaplan only got 6 weeks to come up with and pitch Overwatch: ‘We were probably the most demoralised we’d ever been’

‘It was supposed to…

Before the rise of Overwatch there was the fall of Titan, a cancelled Blizzard MMO which was stripped for…