{"id":1567,"date":"2013-11-22T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T07:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2013-11-22T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T07:31:30","slug":"the-perfect-balancing-in-a-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/the-perfect-balancing-in-a-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect balancing in a RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s get back to talk about one of my favorite topics, rules\/game design for RPGs \ud83d\ude09
\nOne of the biggest problems of all RPG designers is balancing the game difficulty and making the battles\/random encounters interesting.<\/p>\n

In my first two RPGs, Loren and Planet Stronghold, I used two similar approaches. The enemies would auto-level, but on a different scale from the player’s party, to make sure that as the player leveled up the battles would become easier.<\/p>\n

I had defined a base enemy stats\/skills values set at level 1. Then I decided how much increase they would get for each stat on every level up, and did some testing, making sure that the enemy progression wasn’t as quick\/fast as the players.<\/p>\n

For example, after 10 levels, the enemy could have gained +10 HP while the player (on average) +20HP. And then I was scaling those values based on the chosen difficulty.<\/p>\n

However, it was very painful to code it, because I had to define every single enemy this way. Copy\/paste helped, but when an enemy definition looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"enemy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

it’s not really the best to avoid mistakes \ud83d\ude00 Also, balancing the game required tweaking the numbers over and over, test again, and overall took a lot of time.<\/p>\n

So what I have decided to do, to shorten development time and make at same time the battles fun and challenging?<\/p>\n

The Ultimate RPG System!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m going to use a different system that combines auto-leveling with keywords-based allocation of enemies’ stats.<\/p>\n

By default, the enemy will scale completely to the average values of the player party. So attack\/defense\/speed\/magic, so that we have a 1:1 copy of the character average party members values. Then I’ll use keywords and\/or relative values to define specific trait of each enemy to differentiate them.<\/p>\n

For example I could write using relative values:<\/p>\n