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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

There are also hidden easter eggs with interesting lines and detailed facial expressions if players click on or drag them around. Special effect from clicking on and dragging the Hot Cocoa Cookie. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards.

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8 Signs Your Game is Ready for Blind Play-Testing

Brand Game Development

Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Highways & Byways is ready for blind play-testing, and I’ll be spending this weekend setting up a plan on how I’m going to coordinate testing from this point forward. Period, point blank. Need help on your board game?

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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

One good reason is to know your inheritance, to reexamine it, to look for ideas which were baked into the very earliest version of the game and see if changing them could transform the experience. In Old World, you can either middle-click or shift-click to… …just open up a new tooltip off of the previous one.

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The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Description from Board Game Geek. Splendor – $38.

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How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev

Brand Game Development

There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. I won’t get into the details of where to go and what to click. Keep your bio to the point. You have strike a balance. This guide is going to be very detailed. Put your face on your profile photo.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. Ability to convert a Spatial Shader (or Shader Graph) to code in a single click, to customize it or learn how it works. Balancing pros and cons, it's probably not worth implementing it, but the door is open for it. Ability to bundle shaders inside materials.

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