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Creating the Perfect Board Game Scoring System (Tasty Humans Pt. 2)

Brand Game Development

I decided that the basic gameplay was going to involve filling up a grid with tiles. What determines how well that player did given a grid is filled with different tiles? It was clear that it would have something to do with pattern-building and positioning tiles in specific arrangements. Scoring on a Full Stomach. So What Next?

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

Deconstructor of Fun

Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1

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Old World Designer Notes #2: City Sites

Designer Notes

In the original version, one player discovered that the optimum strategy was to cover every fourth tile on the board with a city, a mind-numbingly boring strategy that was always the best choice. Namely, building an urban improvement and producing a specialist on any tile extend the city borders in all six directions.

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

Deconstructor of Fun

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.

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Turkish Gaming Phenomenon Uncovered: A Conversation with Rina Onur

Deconstructor of Fun

Together with Mishka, they discuss the highs and lows of Spyke Games, shining a spotlight on their latest sensation, Tile Busters. Rina attributes the success of Tile Busters, their second and most successful game to date, to an experiment gone right. Even if it is not your preferred genre choice. I couldn’t agree more.

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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? Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. 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. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. Are you excited? Hobby Board Games.

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