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“Post-Balance” Cogmind Item Expansion

Grid Sage Games

Well, after Beta 11 that’s where we find ourselves now, switching focus more and more to brand new elements that don’t need to adhere to any sort of core content accessibility requirements. There’s already a ton of core content--many hundreds of hours worth.

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2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile

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This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. The relative success of Belka Games’ Clockmaker demonstrates an appetite for different kinds of meta concepts, choosing to focus on resource management combined with a mystery narrative. 2021 is the year when this will really change.

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Old World Designer Notes #3: One Unit per Tile

Designer Notes

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. Generally speaking, opinions were divided over (although largely in favor of) the success of one-unit-per-tile.

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Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Clash Mini Faces the Make it or Break it Moment

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The update has been received with mixed reactions in social networks , with players praising the gameplay additions and big amount of new playable content, but disliking the strong focus on loot boxes. 5) 24h Rotating Magic Tiles Magic Tiles are special tiles in a board that trigger a unique effect.

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Can Playrix' Puzzle Breakers Crack Zynga's Empires & Puzzles?

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One could even make an argument that the less puzzling cores such as bubble shooter or tile blasting are not as good of a fit for an audience like this. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. This speaks of the importance of the core gameplay. Core Gameplay.

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Clash Mini - Contender or a Pretender?

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A key reason is that Clash Mini seems in a much earlier and rough state than other Supercell soft launches : Less playable content, less spending depth, and several unfinished systems (i.e. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. No reason to play leagues…).

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