Where to start working on the combat system, as well as what formulas to use, — said Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the indie studio Vengeance Games and author of the course “Fundamentals of game Design“.

While Mundfish is preparing to release the first story DLC for Atomic Heart, we talked to the studio about the design of the game and its individual elements. In an interview with App2Top, the developers talked about creating a combat system, gloves and bosses, and also discussed controversial issues related to the open world.

How to record all game content in the format that the engine will accept, — said Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the Vengeance Games studio and scientific director of the Game Project Management program at the HSE.

The indie team from the Netherlands Grumpy Owl Games shared their experience of working on a turn-based combat system with App2Top.

Yulia Chernenko, a leading game designer at Owlcat Games, spoke about her work on Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. The list of topics covered includes the main tasks of a game designer, communication with other departments, as well as the pros and cons of working with someone else’s role—playing system.

Due to the length of the cycle of modern development, game designers manage to implement not so many ideas during their career. Ryan Sumo, CEO of the Squeaky Wheel indie studio, believes that the situation will improve if the gaming industry can adopt one practice from cinema. We are talking about the sale of options for design documents.Academia: School Simulator, one of the Squeaky Wheel games

With a look at what principles a game designer should adhere to in his work, — in his column on App2Top.ru shared Eduard Kumykov, the lead game designer of the Solitaire Cruise project from Belka Games (according to App Annie, she is now among the top 20 highest-grossing publishers in EMEA).

Warpath is not the first strategy that successfully uses mechanics from games of other genres. However, her case is unique in that the developers from Lilith Games have moved the systems from their own mobile RPG AFK Arena to a new project almost unchanged. This allows you to evaluate which elements turned out to be the most successful in terms of monetization and user engagement.Game design expert Jeff Witt analyzed the mechanics of Warpath in…

Along with the maturation of the mobile market, the introduction of meta-mechanics into casual games is becoming an increasingly common practice among Western developers. As a rule, we are talking about collections, customization, role progression and narrative.

What should be understood by loot in games, what functions are assigned to it and what types it is divided into,” says Owlcat Games game designer Yulia Chernenko.

Nikita Belchak, a game designer at Black Temple Studio, and Vasily Sabirov, a leading analyst and cofounder at devtodev, told how they managed to double the conversion of the Epic Mine tutorial.