Brand Game Development

JULY 8, 2019

Of all the mechanics in the board game world, variable player powers remain a fan favorite. Games with this mechanic range from Gloomhaven to Terraforming Mars to 7 Wonders. 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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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. 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. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. Are you excited? Hobby Board Games.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

and Michail Katkoff for edits and data. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. She was previously at King, Wooga and Mind Candy.

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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. Summary In this lesson we dressed up the Encounter scene by adding a tile based level map and sprites for our combatants.

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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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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

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

It may be possible to edit your project file manually, but otherwise it's recommended to let Godot generate a new one. Previous versions of the engine provided users with a powerful, but obscured mechanism for preparing imported 3D assets. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone!

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics. 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. I knew I needed a mechanic that gave players a choice of one adventurer from several options.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

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. There is also an escalation in strategy as the players fill up their boards by acquiring more and more Leader tiles.

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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. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player.

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