3 items tagged with Dragons Quest
How Do You Improve Turn Based Combat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktogjiX3eI4
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Turn-based combat is often slow and grindy. How can you improve it? Speed up actions, intros, and attack animations; use quick-time events so attacking and defending are interactive; streamline menu navigation; integrate turn economy (add, cancel, speed up, and slow down turns); reward players with new moves, interesting tactical choices, and story bits between battles; make interesting, unique monsters; use fights sparingly; grant small rewards like skill-points.
Oil it or Spoil it!
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/oil-it-or-spoil-it/
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We often talk about game juice as cascading actions in response to user input, but what about oil? 'Oiling' a game to remove user pain can drastically improve it. Examples from Dragons Quest, Final Fantasty I, and X-COM illustrate pain-points and their solutions.
Number Punchers: How Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest handle combat math
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A look at how Final Fantasy and Dragon's Quest calculate damage, and how that affects everything from keeping monsters in play to character growth. Includes some useful questions to ask yourself when developing your own formulas.