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.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This is a neat way to introduce brand new board game devs to odd concepts like modular boards – that is, boards that do not have the same form every time you play. The core concept is dead simple: someone leads each team by giving them one word cues that are intended to associate with words laid out in a 5×5 grid.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

The concept is so absurd that Stanley Kubrick made a comedy movie out of it. All of the hard-to-organize cardboard map tiles have been removed, and instead players will play on the scenario book itself, which features new artwork unique to each scenario. It has incredibly clever area control and hand management mechanics.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

That was mind boggling to me and a completely new concept. And don’t even think about moving the played wild card when switching tiles around; that’ll get a flipped table for sure. When the pegs fell out of the stand and all your tiles fell….ah And then, best of all, there was a PURPLE Lady in an AMAZING HAT as a character.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

As we need to find all possible tiles a unit can move to, A* quickly bogs down because it is designed to find a single path from point A to B as quickly as it can, but finding a path from A to B-Z is a lot of individual paths. static func GetDirection(t1: Tile, t2: Tile): var dir:Directions.Dirs var toTile:Vector2i = t1.pos

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Item integrity loss on use : This concept is fundamentally similar to the disposable mechanic, although not quite the same thing since usage simultaneously weakens the item itself, making it more vulnerable to destruction, and for the same reason damage to the item directly reduces its remaining uses. Very afraid.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2021

tiles editor series: Tiles editor progress report #1. Tiles editor progress report #2. you are here) Tiles editor progress report #3. Tiles editor progress report #4. Tiles editor progress report #5. This allows you to customize the properties that the tiles themselves expose. TileSet rework.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

Different creatures can be different sizes, and accordingly may occupy different numbers of tiles, or be able to reach different tiles (such as for attacking). At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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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.

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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?” work, is that life is too short to spend months or years trying to get a game concept working.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This is why Godot does not have the concept or distinction between prefabs and scenes. Additionally, by having higher level nodes, Godot does not have the concept of "scene settings", as these is done with nodes too. The result is a much greater ability to do composition than in a traditional ECS approach.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

The original version of the code marked the class as abstract, which GDScript does not seem to have any concept of. I removed the check for whether or not a tile is valid from the original tutorial. My reasoning here is that it will allow us to move our cursor over empty tiles, without the need to create dummy empty tiles.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The concept is simple, though does require that text characters take up about half the width that tiles do, which can be a little restrictive at certain sizes. Notice how the tiles in this Cogmind screenshot each occupy two cells, delineated by the partial grid overlay. Big chonker tile has arrived. Enter: the quad.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Odds and Ends Gotta check every little thing, like the tiles-ASCII toggling animation, does that work? For the tileset animation I think it was as simple as having needed to set it to match whatever tile size the map is currently using, rather than always using the standard size. How about the map export function?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. Every week for the next year, and probably well beyond that, I’ll be posting a new article to this series.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. The core engine involves this concept plus mechanics related to virus eradication. The placement of tiles is part of the core engine. Carcassonne : The purpose is to build the best village.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5. x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

open for full size) Okay so each tile actually occupies four times the usual amount of space, but what we mean here is that the cell dimensions are doubled. These speeds are in my dev build, which has a lower FPS than released versions, so I’m just looking at it for relative comparison.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Unlike every other piece, it can move to some tiles only if they’re empty, and to others only if they’re occupied, and only if by an enemy. That would already have me going back to the drawing board of a game concept to see if there’s a more elegant way of hitting the design goals. That’s not it!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. The relative success of Belka Games’ Clockmaker demonstrates an appetite for different kinds of meta concepts, choosing to focus on resource management combined with a mystery narrative. 2021 is the year when this will really change.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Maybe this is standard for engine-building games, but it was a new concept to me. (It’s Besides getting money, I like this phase because it really sticks to the concept that you are a company. Once I realized that we could keep going as long as we wanted (essentially), I found a whole new element to the game that I enjoyed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

5) 24h Rotating Magic Tiles Magic Tiles are special tiles in a board that trigger a unique effect. While an interesting concept, on the original release they felt a bit pointless and lacked visibility, as they were linked to specific boards that appeared based on the Trophy Road progression.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

One could even make an argument that the less puzzling cores such as bubble shooter or tile blasting are not as good of a fit for an audience like this. Gates, which are an ultimate obstacle covering the whole battlefield from tile damage. When it comes to heroes Puzzle Breakers has the same concept as E&P. Core Gameplay.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Targeting Attention, Interest, Desire, And Action Product Your Niche Price Process & Logistics Core Concepts of Promotion Outreach Reviews Distribution Kickstarter Advertising. This concept is called product-market fit. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Core Concepts of Promotion.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

Made in 1964, Acquire is an economic board game with mechanics that we recognize in modern games such as hand management and tile placement. The concept of buying different cards and mixing and matching to make decks was completely new. Despite its incredible customizability, the core concept of the game is pretty simple.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. I’ve listened to so many designers describe how through play-testing, a game came out dramatically different then their initial concept because the new version was more fun.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

While trends are always changing, there are a few basic concepts that do not. But they also emphasized custom meeples and tiles, both of which are popular components. Ideally, you want to look at the pages of highly funded games for campaigns whose games resemble your specific niche – sci-fi, worker placement, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a consequence, autochess has remained as a niche concept that hinted at a strong potential but that nobody has been able to find a way to turn into a profitable product ready for mass adoption (at least in the West). The concept of a seasonal content reset it’s a risky but high reward opportunity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

The majority of growth in 2020 in Match-3 games came from Tile Blast, Puzzle & Decorate, and classic match-3 games. Items are hidden on the board and the player must match over tiles to unearth them. Royal Match’s power-ups are the most vigorous by the size of tiles cleared. With $3.7B This is another nod to player agency.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

That aspect being players dropping pieces into the monsters’ stomachs and strategically arranging them to maximize their overall “satisfaction” Monsters are eating adventurers with their stomachs being some kind of puzzle that you drop the adventurers into was the initial concept. Cathala leveraged a simple twist.

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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. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. L of semen for each one.

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