The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It will mean that if we decide to update it in the future, we won’t have two places to edit map data. func SaveMap(saveFile): var save_game = FileAccess.open(saveFile, FileAccess.WRITE) var version = 1 var size = tiles.size() save_game.store_8(version) save_game.store_16(size) for key in tiles: save_game.store_8(key.x)

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

Magic Tiles 3 Another new entry in the top 10 is Magic Tiles 3 with 24M installs. Leveraging its extensive catalog of content, Magic Tiles 3 uses Subscriptions to drive LTV from day 0. It is similar to Magic Tiles 3 from the gameplay perspective, but its monetization is IAA-driven.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Mobile GPUs are very different from desktop GPU, to make better use of limited access to fast memory mobile GPUs use a tile based architecture. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles. All geometry is processed first while the GPU keeps track of which triangles need to be rendered to each tile.

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Game Errors

JUNE 21, 2023

XDefiant slow download speed is causing problems for most gamers who want to enjoy the newest Ubisoft tile in beta. XDefiant download stuck due to problems related to the ISP throttling data, the game servers are overwhelmed due to high demand and poor internet connection. Why is XDefiant stuck on downloading?

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL). By default, the 3D Shader of Cocos will multiply the tile Tilling and add the Offset, and it also supports the flip repair for RenderTexture.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re also not bound to using the Resources folder like we are in Unity, so I’m going to use the folder “Data” instead since that makes more sense to me. In the Scene panel right-click on the Tile node and click Add Child Node. The last object we’ll make is the Tile Selection indicator.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

Cogmind being a game focused on ranged combat, repeatedly getting attacked from out of view would not be great, nor is having data on enemies roaming around you in multiple directions, known but out of view. These and other drawbacks of a small view area don’t make for an optimal play experience.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Such tools help with data validation and other text processing tasks because they only need a few characters to implement complex searches. I3 is a lightweight open-source tiling window manager for Linux. It’s easy because the tiling works over the top of your operating system’s graphical user interface to make changes directly.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In recent years, big players in the gaming sector like Microsoft, have recognized the significance of data analytics. As a result, they have begun purchasing firms that give access to player data. Also, smaller developers are trying to stay up with the data science and marketing aspect which is prevalent in major corporations.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. The mechanics that were chosen for the initial game – tile placement, variable player powers, and so on – all screened well with an audience. Need help on your board game?

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. Tile Script We’ll create two folders here. The general idea is that the data itself is modified and stored separate from where the code to format it on screen is kept. The next two values let the tile itself keep track of its position.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25 Branches offer all of the benefits of mainline UE4.25 and UE4.26.1,

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In this lesson we will look at making custom boards for our encounters that are data-driven and skinned in a Tilemap. A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. For this lesson I created a couple of simple images to use for tile maps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The payload registers are the mechanism NVIDIA OptiX offers for passing arbitrary data along with a ray, from the caller that traces a ray, and back. The limited size of the payload forced many to use local or even global memory buffers for passing ray data around, which can have a negative impact on performance.

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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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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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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. Custom data.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles. In rounds 1, 2, and 3, each location tile is revealed subsequently, which significantly changes the gameplay. Marvel Snap has over 100 location tiles, each of which can significantly impact the game you're playing.

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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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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. No crashes, just big tiles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 31, 2024

vdp_key allows us to access keyboard data and check for key presses over the serial connection between the ESP32 and the Z80 processor. tile = c; enemies[enemy_count].room tile = 158; enemies[enemy_count].room tile = c; enemies[enemy_count].room tile = 158; enemies[enemy_count].room

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4 have already been backported and published in Godot 3.2.1 If you need to preserve the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 20, 2024

Although I imagine that for the most part the player will only be controlling medium sized units (which occupy a single tile), I also want to make A.I. Even worse is that our current iteration of the pathfinder does not include blocked tiles in its path map, so as it is now, I can’t see a path to an opponent.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4 have already been backported and published in Godot 3.2.1 If you need to preserve the 3.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. and Michail Katkoff for edits and data. All revenue numbers show net revenues.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Back to REX Last time I introduced the engine’s base cell size that fits individual text characters, wide glyphs for square map tiles, and the new “quad,” or four map tiles in order to enable a zoomed effect. The first new class was purely to hold interface data that must be preserved during zoom events.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Full bitmap graphics, with tiles and sprites is also available. call_cmd allows you to supply the group and function numbers that you want to execute, supplying the actual command first and then the group, so that it does not execute before it knows what it is meant to be doing. What Next? Write a whole different game? What do you think?

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mhz with all signals available via connector RP2040 with 2MB of SPI Flash, 64k RAM available to the processor HDMI output with 320 x 240 256 colour display, higher resolutions appear on Apple/Oric emulators 20k Graphics RAM for tiles and 128 sprites up to 32×32 pixels. Neo6502 Software and Firmware: What can it do?

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Game Design Advice

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In Scrabble the core skill is finding the best move given the tiles in your rack and the knowledge is the contents of the Scrabble dictionary. On the right: information, data, knowledge. In the Serpentes screen these two domains are splayed before us like two halves of a dissected brain. On the left: skill, execution, performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Changes to sub-nodes would result in data loss. Just add enemies, move them around, change their properties, add colliders, platforms, tiles, etc. Instancing is one of Godot's best features. For this version it has been further improved. Previously, only the root node of a scene was editable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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