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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? 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. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement.

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The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. Are you excited? Let’s get started.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

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