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Boss fights are typically expensive to develop. They often have unique models, unique animations, unique visual effects, unique game mechanics, unique rewards, unique cinematics, unique VO, and so on. Each of these aspects (and even more beyond what I’…

Most of the time, it is because they have game ideas they want to make. Game developers tend to be driven by the need to create. I got into game development because I wanted to make my own game ideas into reality. Almost every developer I know had some…

Honestly, all you really need to do to make a mini boss or other “strong” enemy stand out is to give them a significant boost in health. Players tend to conflate how long an enemy survives with its relative strength. The longer the foe lives, the “toug…

Just to note — I’m assuming a few qualities about you — that you are dedicated to learning the craft and that you are committed to finishing what you start. There will reach a point on every project after the honeymoon phase of “oh this is cool and new…

The greatest factor in whether this is possible is whether development is continuing on the game or not. If the game continues to receive new content updates over time even four years after release (e.g. Street Fighter V released in 2016 and has recent…

It’s quite rare for a publisher to push up a release date. This is typically because delivering a product is set for a specific date so that marketing and the expected release season (e.g. targeting the holiday season). These decisions are often made a…

Continued engagement has a lot of positive externalities beyond just selling people more stuff. If you play a game for a few hours and quit, you might have some pleasant memories of it when the sequel rolls around or you might not. However, if you play…

There’s a few reasons we don’t do this. Let me try to break it down for you.1. Because fans don’t always have the context to understand our decisionsMany decisions are made because of multiple factors. The team’s expert on combat mechanic design could …

When you boil a critique down to its very core, you really end up with only three parts to it. Practically any critique can be broken down into something like this:
In my experience, the usefulness of a critique is inversely proportional to the ambigui…

Humans tend to project our own wants, desires, feelings, etc. onto others — that is, we tend to assume other people believe what we believe, like what we like, dislike what we dislike, etc. This tendency has many far-reaching side effects such as confl…