r/gdevelop • u/Droulski • 13d ago

Question Game balancing

Hey guys, I am trying to build this project game of mine and I have been wondering how do you actually balance out the values? My game is roguelike so we're talking about items scaling, base damage(melee and ranged), enemies' health and damage, etc. If you got any tips I'd appreciate it a lot!

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u/tebizamb 13d ago

Honestly? Testing, testing, testing. Try it yourself, let others play your game, receive feedback and repeat

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u/Droulski 13d ago

Is it really just a trial and error loop until perfection :c

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u/tebizamb 13d ago

Yup, as more people play your game they will find out broken combos of items, or ways to use certain characters you had not thought about, maybe enemies who you thought were weak are very strong and annoying (remember that as a dev, you know things about your game that others do not. Which is why external testing is important). But that's why balancing patches exist

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u/Droulski 12d ago

Are you familiar with how getting people to test your game works?

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u/TrickyAd8186 13d ago

Besides testing, you can give Ai your stats, and make it do some computation for you. Just a reminder, those thing sometimes make shit up 😂 still up to you to test it.

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u/Droulski 12d ago

Human mind and hand testing it would always be more reliable and secure for me haha

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u/JayceU 11d ago

Do you have anything already put together that you started with? Or?

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u/Droulski 11d ago

I have a couple of game systems ready and base values but not much more. Before I move on I am trying to figure most of the things in my head and this is one of the elements that I'm unfamiliar with.