#Unreal Engine

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  Rusty at your own game: why a developer's hands make a bad difficulty meter

  The Eyes of the Sky developer posted 93 seconds of himself getting hit. What the frames show about attack warnings and damage feedback, and why difficulty should be tuned from damage logs and fresh players, not from the developer's own hands.

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  With or without air pushback: how Eyes of the Sky A/B-tests combo feel in 15 seconds

  Testers told Eyes of the Sky its air combos felt static, so the developer recorded the same fight with and without pushback and asked X to pick. How to capture a one-variable comparison, how pushback is usually built, and where labels and walls get in the way.

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  • #Combat design
  • #Game feel