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5 Tips for Playing Better Oracles
The gods work in mysterious ways, and perhaps none of those ways are more mysterious than individuals who are both blessed and cursed by the whims of the divine. Outcast as often as they are held in awe, these agents of deific power are given no choice in whether or not they wished to wield it. Some rail against the gods that cursed them, longing for the normal life they were denied. Others seek to understand the power they have been given, whether or not they wished for it.
By Neal Litherland7 years ago in Gamers
Tricks for EV Training Your Pokémon
I have been playing Pokémon since about gen 3, but that was only because my older brother had Sapphire. Since then I have loved playing the games, watching the film, and the anime. I am by no means the most dedicated Pokémon player but I do enjoy it. Even though I have been playing since I was probably about 6 or 7, I didn't know what EV training was until a few days ago. I asked my boyfriend if I could play his Pokémon Sun game in preparation for my Moon version arriving and he agreed. He asked if I could breed and train some Pokémon for him. When he said train, I thought he just meant leveling it up. I was very wrong. He told me which Pokémon to battle to train it and to have special items. What he didn't tell me was any real specific tricks to help me do this fast so, here are a few tricks I learned to help EV train faster.
By Kimberly Styles8 years ago in Gamers
6 Top Ways to Market Your Indie Game
Begin from the get-go. Don’t wait until you are halfway through, or almost finished making your game. Start your marketing as soon as you have something to show, even if it is just a simple character mockup, level mockup, or actual beginning designs in your game engine software. As you progress keep posting images, and videos when you can, that display what you are doing with your game. Don’t wait, start marketing right from the get-go.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
4 Top Tips for Beginner Indie Game Devs. Top Story - May 2018.
1. Narrow your scope. It can be very easy to get excited about making a game you think everyone will love and want to make this incredible, complex game. Unless you are creating a game with a group of people it can be very daunting to create a very complex game. Keeping the game simple with some choices for the player is what you want to do, to begin with for your first few games. When you start off your first game with the in-depth game you’ve always wanted to make and it becomes overwhelming, many people end up giving up and feel defeated. The whole experience becomes negative instead of fun and enjoyable.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
How to Defeat the Final Bosses in 'Ninja Gaiden' (NES)
Ninja Gaiden was a side-scrolling action-platforming video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in March 1989. The game features a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa who seeks revenge for his father's death. This game was one of my favorites to play as a kid. In 1997, I had reached the first of the final three bosses, which was The Masked Devil, several times. Unfortunately, I never got past him and was forever frustrated. In 2016, 19 years after the infuriating event, I purchased an NES Classic Edition, in hopes of redeeming myself and finally defeating the final three bosses after all of those years. In this article, I'll be sharing some tips on how to trounce The Masked Devil, Jaquio, and The Demon Sculpture. If you fail to defeat all three enemies, you will have to start over at Act 6-1 and try again, regardless on the number of lives you had left.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 8 years ago in Gamers
How to Save Everyone in 'The Letter'
The Letter is a 2017 Indie visual novel by Yangyang Mobile. It's well-praised for its well written characters, horror elements, tragic true ending, and scary ghost that everybody calls Cuddles. It's one of my favourite games from 2017 and this can be a very challenging novel, especially if you're looking for a specific route or wanting to unlock all the nodes for the game. Sometimes people get so terrified that they're too scared to play again in fear of accidentally killing their favourite character off.
By Chloe Gilholy8 years ago in Gamers
Nine Great Tips To Improve 'Fortnite Battle Royal' Gameplay
Go to tilted towers, even if you are a beginner, this gets you into the action of the game and playing against other players faster. This helps you from wasting so much time looking and searching for other players to attack. Tilted towers also will help you in learning how to do combat with shotguns and other close-range weapons, as well as long-range weapons like sniper rifles. This is a great place to play a few warm-up games to get you ready for more serious squad games. Make sure you organize your loadout with your weapons. Setup an assault rifle, shotgun, maybe a secondary shotgun or a rocket launcher weapon, be sure to include a healing kit and a long range sniper rifle for when needed. You will likely be using the assault rifle the most so keep that in your first slot, followed by the shotgun to easily switch for any type of close range combat. It may take you a few seconds to set up or organized loadout but this will save you time during combat and make for easy transitions to your weapons and medkit as you are fighting. Make sure you are using a headset and have the volume turned up on the headset. This keeps people from easily sneaking up on you. You will be able to hear people running, building, shooting nearby, harvesting resources and even setting up traps in the nearby area, allowing you to be alert and paying more attention to your surroundings. In your squads and teams, make sure you are giving out good callouts for your teammates, such as "I see two at North 58, I see three at South East 257" etc. This will help your teammates with identifying where people are in the event they are nearby and can also offer some assistance. Keep up the building editing when you are inside one of your constructed buildings. Enemies cannot see that you are in the edit mode but you can see through that wall, edit a window or a door and make the edit allowing you to then start attacking the enemy player before they have a chance to respond to the building edit and where you are. This keeps you from destroying the wall and does take some practice but will pay off in the end. Hunt for shields and heals, even if you are still at 70 percent health, that extra 20 percent health can make a difference when you hit combat between life and death. Always try to keep your shield and health at a maximum. Take some time to leave combat alone for a bit until you can bring your health and shields back up. A basic tip but still important to always remember that when you are farming resources hit the blue circle. This will allow you to farm faster and keep yourself moving from resource to resource. This will allow you to farm twice as fast which means you get materials twice as fast. Thus, allowing you to get what you need and get back in action. Always crouch while using assault rifles. You will see most of the better players doing this and this makes your aim much more accurate. With shotguns, this will not be as big of a deal, but makes a difference with assault rifles, and try not to be moving too much. How good your weapon is will also make a difference i.e. a common, blue, purple or gold weapon. When using a shotgun and jumping up and down as you shoot, you want to shoot when you are at the apex of the jump, at the top of your jump. This will give your spread with the shotguns a little bit more accuracy, helping you to defeat your enemy faster. Always try for a head shot causing the most damage.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
How to Create Lighting Effect in Construct 2 and 3
Often times in your game, you might want to have your player in a dark place and add a lighting effect either to the player themselves or to torches on the wall or other objects to give the feeling of being in a dark place and provide the player with some light to see. In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to create a lighting effect in Construct 2, and this should also be able to be applied to Construct 3.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
How to Create a Tilemap Spritesheet for Construct 2 & 3
When creating a game in Construct 2, where tiles are being used, such as a platformer, top-down shooter or RPG game, using a tilemap becomes extremely useful and is the best and easiest way to go about it. Without a tilemap, you would have to create an object instance of the tile, and then make multiple instances of that object by clicking and copying, or holding CTRL, then click and drag to copy. Placing the tiles this way can become very time intensive.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
