From the creators of Zen Koi™, Grifford Academy is a brand new single player turn-based RPG experience. Featuring a riveting yet heartwarming story about lost teens and empowerment. Follow Erika and her ragtag team of unlikely friends as they travel into the book world of Caldria. Meet ...
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Islandis one of the hardest games in recent memory, and, because of that, I reckon it could become the most overlooked game of 2024. Many Western gamers focus on and value progression systems these days, which is something ...
To truly recreate the aggressive rush of combat is a tall order, even in a AAA-budgeted first-person shooter, but Battlesector faces an additional hurdle – it’s a turn-based strategy game. When publisher Slitherine announced Battlesector would sell itself on “fierce, fast-paced combat”, ey...
Building on the popular d20 and 2d6-based old-school mechanics, it offers streamlined gameplay and is compatible with its sister games like Stars Without Number. The game provides tools for Game Masters (GMs) to craft personalized apocalyptic settings with unique challenges, such as mutant perils...
Another element that appears in both games are the stratagems, powerful tools that can be accessed using a special code and called onto the battlefield when needed. We asked how the concept emerged, and how they developed between the two games. “G...
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During combat, you wield daggers, a sword and shield or an axe as your melee weapon along with a bow and arrow, staff or magic wand for your ranged weapon. You can’t switch between them during a run but you can change your loadout before each of the game’s chapters. You also hav...
for a week and wander around in a VR headset. Other times you end up poisoning your home with an AI-powered gadget that hooks up to your TV and leaks putrid scents based on the sounds in the game you’re playing. I live for that eclectic aspect of the job, but it has its ...
As someone who loves old-tech projects, like those DOS-based games that I loved playing in my youth, Windows 95 epitomizes that aesthetic. Fancy buttons and window designs are a hallmark of our graphics processor progress, but the sharp edges and shadowed buttons will always have a place in...
The development process has been full of iterating, testing, and tuning to find the perfect drunken stumble and combat systems to fit the mindscape of a drunken fighter. We tried some even more aerial Kung-Fu iterations, but playtesting with an intoxicated audience showed that the learning curv...