Balance Concepts Development Tile 
Grid Sage Games
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. Balancing Levers The idea of “post-balance” from this article’s title doesn’t mean no balance.
Brand Game Development
JULY 1, 2019
Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I decided that the basic gameplay was going to involve filling up a grid with tiles. So how do you do it? So What Next?
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Tom Francis
MARCH 11, 2017
They’re both games where you move around a grid of different tile types, and the one you’re standing on determines what you can do there. At this point you live or die by what tiles happen to be between you and it – if they all do 1 blue damage and the enemy has 4 blue health, you are dead.
Keith Burgun
JANUARY 4, 2023
At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?” We’ve watched as this language has developed from MTG, to things like Gwent, Codex, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, and most recently Marvel Snap.
Designer Notes
AUGUST 10, 2021
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.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. Supercell is a great game developer who has proven mastery of strategy and multiplayer genres. After which, it appears to be in a slow decline.
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?
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