Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Overcoming Key Challenges in M&A In the fast-moving world of M&A, two significant challenges can feel like tackling rough terrain, but overcoming them is the key to a smoother journey. He classifies them into two primary categories: outright acquisitions and earnouts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2021

Most of TileSet's systems (rendering, collisions, physics, navigation, …) are now using a concept of "layers" (this might be renamed). Terrains are the more powerful replacement of autotiles. Unlike autotiles, terrains can support transitions from one terrain to another, as a tile may define several terrains at once.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Moria’s descendant Angband also included ego items ( over 100 properties), but expanded the concept of randomized items even further by adding the option to activate “Randomly Generated Artifacts,” abbreviated “randarts.”

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

This aligns with the concept that although Exiles prototypes are meant to be very good, they’re also usually flawed in some way, such as eventually breaking down, blowing up in your face, or something in between :P. so I’m all for changing something like this. BREAKING: Renaming Leads to New Mechanics.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TGGW is a linear dungeon, but backtracking to visit certain dungeon features is quite useful at times, so it also includes a convenient map list accompanied by the characters for notable features at that depth--NPCs, stairs, teleporters, mechanical valves, terrain that might contain something… (there is also a key elsewhere on the UI).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This results in multi-threading, in a way that is transparent to the programmer: Basically, the concept of "frame time" (doing everything in less that 1/60 seconds), no longer exists with this approach. To make this easier, we came up with the concept of Servers. Remote objects are represented with RIDs.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). Some concepts: More enemies could show up? Generating more paths would likely make Garrisons easier in some regards (unnecessary!), Download(Registry) is even more revealing! If available, that is.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

A peer needs to communicate its network terrain, e.g. its public IP address, whether it’s behind a NAT, and its private IP address. Thus, after forward and reverse engineering a few samples, I was able to get some of my concepts clear. Telephone switchboard, 1975. Author: Joseph A. Adding GDNative Android API to core.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. A key concept in addressing this question is the idea of the skill chain , as articulated in Characteristics of Games , by Elias et al.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. In fact I have two new concepts for teleportation tech, which is kinda funny because of how they evolved out of the same idea.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles. You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia.

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