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Ashes of the Singularity 2 developer Oxide Games explains how its environments, both hand-crafted and procedural, bring tactics to life.

I am currently making a pixel platformer, and i am well under way in development! This will be my first real game ever, and I'm doing everything myself, animation, art, music, you name it. This was ...

The best Metroidvania games have redefined a genre named after the long-running giants of Metroid and Castlevania, grounded in progression through exploration. That same search-action game flow is ...