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How Great Games Beat THE GRIND (Patreon)

Published:
2018-08-21 09:55:39
Edited:
2019-02-22 20:15:29
Imported:
2021-02

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I've been thinking about grinding ever since I started designing combat for the game. From the time where combat was just going to be a simple turn-based affair, I've included things like auto combat, different attacks, time bar messing around, effects and states, items, perks, and alien unlockables. I hope you see I take the negative effects of grinding very seriously! :D

This video has a very interesting take on the issue, I thought it deserved sharing with you guys.

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How Great Games Beat The Grind

Follow me on Twitter- https://twitter.com/Thefearalcarrot Support The Architect of Games on Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/ArchitectofGames Unsurprisingly, grinding isn't fun- but that's not all there is to it. Rather than being something that happens to the player, grinding actually happens all in our heads. After a brief holiday in Pelican Town, The Architect is back to tell you how even repetitive games can beat the grind by using three neat tricks. You Saw: Pokemon Omega Ruby- 2014 Warframe- 2013 Hearthstone- 2014 Torchlight 2- 2012 Fortnite: Battle Royale- 2017 Megaman X- 1993 XCOM 2 WOTC- 2017 World of Warcraft- 2004 Brigador: Up-Armored Edition- 2017 Luftrausers- 2014 Nuclear Throne- 2015 Into The Breach- 2018 Minit- 2018 Duolingo???- Je ne sais pas Stardew Valley- 2016 Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the new one)- 2017 Enter the Gungeon- 2016 Interesting Links- Stardew Valley and real life work-https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/13/stardew-valley-marriage-work/ Draz's suspiciously well-timed video on grinding- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a0Xjtdgu7g&feature=youtu.be Ignorance is bliss in Stardew Valley- http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/10/10/in-stardew-valley-ignorance-can-be-bliss

Comments

Doomyo

Cool video and its nice to see your interested in making combat fun and not just a grind time sink. Being on Renpy you don't have to much to work with but first test build was better then I thought it would be.

Matt Ahn

I like the idea of a very in-depth combat and there are many features here that I remember from old RPG games that were amazing. My only skeptical issue, and please take this positives, is that this is without a doubt something very ambitious and I wouldn't be surprised if this took a long time to work with. I just hope that such a deep combat system won't hinder development on other parts of development for not only Ben X but also Shagworth's. Otherwise, super excited to hear this!

Newman
>>14837064

And that was just the basics. We will expand much further, hehe. Time bar, items, perks... Akanoes is really pushing Ren'py's limits!

Newman
>>14837482

Well, the way we see it, it's all about getting the base mechanics right -with the whole plan for combat always in mind, refering to the design documents any time a question about which way to go arises- test them to hell and back. Tweak them, perfect them. Only then, add new features. We hope being this thorough will solve future issues, and WHEN they arrive-as the fuckers do-, hopefully we have planned ahead for the contingency.