Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Not long after that I started working on a game (then called City Draft) that would be strongly inspired by a few key influences: 7 Wonders for the mechanics and structure, Carcassonne for the idea of placing tiles in a grid, and SimCity for the theme. Science is purely all or nothing. Few viable paths to victory.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. and Michail Katkoff for edits and data. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. As is the whole Istanbul gaming ecosystem.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will also provide a tile based room for them to fight in. I want the combatants that are lower on the tile map to appear above the combatants higher on the tile map so that they appear closer. At a minimum this would make unit testing easier, but it could also add flexibility to the way that we build the game.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation via Facebook Messenger. Drapple is an abstract, tile-laying gardening game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

It has been lightly edited for clarity and flow. I like it when games offer a visual cue as to probability (like Catan’s number tiles), and when arithmetic operations come with physical tokens that you can manipulate instead of doing straight up arithmetic. Below is a transcript of our conversation over Discord DMs.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics. He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! Below, I have lightly edited the original work from his blog and – in some cases – replaced images with ones from the production copy of Tasty Humans.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! Below, I have lightly edited the original work from his blog. In each of the design diaries that I have written so far, I have focused on a specific game mechanic or isolated portion of the game.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud?

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