Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. Are you excited? Let’s get started.

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Tile Point and Click Games Art 130

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Terraforming Mars: Board & Deck Building Game. Maybe this is standard for engine-building games, but it was a new concept to me. (It’s My husband is a bit more into game mechanics and the nitty gritty (can’t you tell I’m pleased I married a game developer? Ok, enough chit chat. Let’s roll out and explore Mars!

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Point and Click Games Concepts Mechanics 130

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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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. It worked extremely well from a mechanical perspective, which is all we needed for early MP testing before the game even had characters, families, and events. The trick is knowing where symmetry is important.

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AI Simulation Mechanics Mobile Gaming 40

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Tile Blast games, defined largely by Peak Games, continued smooth sailing. Peak is stable and controls its sub-genre of tile blasting. Rovio’s Angry Birds Dream Blast was a great fresh take combining tile blasting and physical puzzle. Bubble Shooters also continued to decline in terms of revenue despite growth of downloads.

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Puzzle Games Tile Mobile 52

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! 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. They have just a single Leader tile and their monster’s unique “personal craving.”

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Tile Games Playtesting Balance 130

Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.)

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