Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle is a collection of game development related assets from the GameDev Marketplaces. It consists primarily of pixel art graphic packs (character sprites, tiles and tilemaps and effects) as well as sound packs (ambient, foley effects, sfx and more).

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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. The game is what you could call “old but gold”: it has been on the market since 2017, harvesting quite a few downloads over quite some time. Leveraging its extensive catalog of content, Magic Tiles 3 uses Subscriptions to drive LTV from day 0.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

The latest game from Pangea Games is launching on Kickstarter. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. After playing, I agreed.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

One challenge that has haunted all Civilization games since the beginning is Infinite City Sleaze (ICS). In the original version, one player discovered that the optimum strategy was to cover every fourth tile on the board with a city, a mind-numbingly boring strategy that was always the best choice.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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Tom Francis

MAY 27, 2023

And their mounted Bishop grabs the Flame: like Frost, but ignites tiles: units on burning tiles must move or die at the end of their turn. Enemies can move onto (but not through) empty fortified tiles to clear them, but they can’t enter occupied fortified tiles. Friends can move freely through them.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2016

It remains one of the most enduring, nuanced board games on shelves today. It’s the kind of game even your grandmother can learn to play (and also beat you at). Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The titles are randomized.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. Need help on your board game?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

First, the original data stream is segmented into 64 KB tiles, which are processed independently. This coarse-grained decomposition provides thread-level parallelism, enabling multiple tiles to be processed concurrently on multiple cores of the target processor. All threads in the SIMD group share the decompression state.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Listen to the whole chat here: [link] Our 'AHA' moments Pixel art is easy to get started in Pixel art is a cartoony aesthetic Consistency with your pixel art is important Tilesets vs Hand crafted pixel art Getting Started With Pixel Art (17:40 - 19:11) Pixel art requires a low barrier of entry compared to other aspects of game development.

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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. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? This was a small, tight, humble, simple project.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s hard to keep secrets in the gaming industry. Once players show interest in something you've created, many game developers worldwide quickly become "inspired" by your game. So, in the never ending search for the next blue ocean, there is a new stop: Tile Match. What is and is not a Tile Match?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, I find myself somewhere in the middle when it comes time to picking out a game. Part of this is because of my early years growing up with board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Growing Up with Board Games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). The illustration picture is from NeJ , an upcoming poetic and mysterious hand-drawn adventure game developed by Ben Lega.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

I released Morphblade last week, which is a game I made in direct response to Michael Brough’s Imbroglio. 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. This is at least half the game, and I like it.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game? Source ).

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Now, that’s not to say that the programmer can’t influence the game because, like I said before, everyone on the team is going to bring their ideas to the table and a good game designer will listen to their entire team, pull the best out of it, and that will make the game even better than if they were just doing it from their own head.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Getting started in board game development can be both intimidating and expensive. I’m almost certainly not the only blogger you’ve looked to for advice, and I can probably guess one thing you get told a lot: “play more games!” Need help on your board game? ” (Yeah, gee thanks, Sherlock.).

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Second, what goes into making tabletop games? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Back in the heat of the summer of 2017, I wrote two articles about this A Crash Course in Games and A Crash Course in Game Development.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Reflex has been adopted by 7 of the Top 10 competitive shooters – Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Valorant, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Overwatch and Rainbow Six: Siege Now all Unreal Engine developers can easily use these same technologies in your games, thanks to UE4 integration. Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I consider this to really valuable for learning game design simply because there is so much going on. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Terraforming Mars is a game where each player acts as a corporation trying to, well, terraform Mars.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

Even 24 years later, we can still look back at this game and learn lessons from it. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You create an island of hexagonal tiles, each of which represents a different type of terrain.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Excerpt from an e-mail I just sent to artist John: A brief history of zooming and backgrounds: We worry about how to make the game look good at all the zooms between ‘local’ and ‘galaxy map’ You ask if anything actually happens at those zooms. You make tiling vapour layers and stars/dust. It doesn’t!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game? Eat villagers.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As a result of this growing audience, developers and game companies are challenged to offer a seamless user experience and that’s where gaming metrics come in. What are Gaming Metrics? Assessing game metrics aids developers ascertain player satisfaction and challenges as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

I personally have over 15 decks built at any given time to play based on the live-ops and events in the game. Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles. This means that the tile will show up 40% more often in games.

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Game Errors

MARCH 23, 2023

Eagerly anticipated by gamers worldwide, Hitman 3 is an intense and exciting game developed and published by IO Interactive. Despite the game’s popularity, some PC gamers have experienced crashing issues. Verify the integrity of game files Sometimes, your game files could get corrupted, missing, or deleted.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

I remember how hard it was to learn on my own, and I’ve made it my mission to guide you through the whole process the way I wish I was when I created my first game, War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When I started, I knew nothing.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. 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.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 8, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In my last Designer Diary for Tasty Humans , I talked about how I approached scoring based on the arrangement of tiles in each of the monster’s stomachs. In Tasty Humans, you never simply play a single tile.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The categories are as follows: Hobby Board Games Family Card Games Family Board Games Party Games Game Accessories & Storage Home Décor & Other Gifts Apparel & Funny Gifts.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The original idea for Tasty Humans can be traced back to a single thought that I had twenty-four hours into Panjam , a 48-hour board game design contest with the theme “they tasted quite delicious.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Match 3D 65 titles released in 2023 5 successful new releases 8% success rate In the 2022 report , we wrote about the interesting dynamics of the “Match-3: Tile” genre. Games of these two genres are similar core-wise: players complete levels by searching and matching identical objects.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Clearly, Plan B Games is doing something right, so let’s talk about that! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Photo by PZS69, posted to Board Game Geek under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Board gamers love the physical experience of games.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 3, 2020

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? mm x 228.6mm) with 48 tiles 48: circular,5” x.5”

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? The placement of tiles is part of the core engine.

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