I just finished playing one very successful non-roguelike game, Witcher 3. Great graphics and music, thousands of conversation lines, very polished under many aspects. I only enjoy hard games and it was satisfying to manage to win the game in the hardest mode, "death march". And that sound...
What does NPC mean in gaming? 343 Industries/Xbox Game Studios NPC stands for “non-playable character” in gaming. It’s a term used in video games and tabletop gaming to distinguish between characters in a game that are controlled by the player and characters controlled entirely by the ga...
but only for themselves. These are kind of individual entrepreneurs in the gaming industry. Typically, indie studios are made up of just a few people. Most often, their number does not exceed 10 experts. There are also indie developers who make ga...
more swiftly in this game than it did in Slay the Spire or Monster Train, leading me to wonder if I was just *that good* at the game (which admittedly, does seem a bit easier than the other two, although part of that could be my familiarity with roguelike deckbuilders at this p...
More Templates of popular game genre types. [Roguelike, Soulslike, Sandbox etc]More ways to procedurally generate high quality models & textures.More magic/spells multiplayer network replicated systems. ( will always sell as long as you can come up with unique spells that haven’t been ...
ZZZ is Hoyoverse’s fresh urbanARPG, but it’s also agacha gamewith roguelike mechanics, puzzles, social and life sim elements, and some clear influences from some of the best fighting games around (if you want to hear more about that, be sure to check out ourZenless Zone Zero interview...
So devs should simply own the fact they water down their games and go Hollywood to please everybody. Then indies will go back to being trendsetters that are different from AAAs, instead of being roguelike and gacha copycats. Reply01 - 3d ago JohnBLZ2d ago Okay, but "games I'm not...
Don't you dare say it - It's Indie World time! Yes, Nintendo has announced that on Wednesday 17th April we're getting 20-ish minutes' worth of indie game ann...
These terms have become blurred in everyday usage. When most people say "roguelike," they don't mean a turn-based dungeon-crawler like the original Rogue. They're probably referring to a game that has randomized levels and permanent death, like Spelunky. Similarly, while we've laid out a ...
What Does "Metroidvania" Mean? The name Metroidvania is a portmanteau of two video game series: Nintendo's Metroid and Konami's Castlevania. The genre has its roots with games in these franchises. Metroid on NES, released in 1986, was the first major game to feature the hallmark open-ended...