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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

Fixed the terrain as too dark, caused by the lighting calculation issue in the builtin-terrain material. Fixed error on macOS simulator when selecting “Open simulator with debugger” and “Simulator wait for debugger connection” in Cocos Creator → Preferences → Preview at the same time.

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop, Part 1

Designer Notes

I would never have bet on a ultra-detailed dwarf simulator using ASCII art. With Offworld Trading Company, because the game had random maps, each game started with a short exploration phase where you scan the map and found your colony with only part of the terrain revealed. Certainly, that can be said for video games.

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The Depth Project

Game Design Advice

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. And if there is then I want to see it, and be able to talk about it and reason about its ramifications. What depth isn’t.

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