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4 Lessons from Azul for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

Azul has taken the board game world by storm. Like Sagrada , it’s a gorgeous and approachable puzzle game with emergent complexity that becomes ever more apparent with more plays. It’s also, somehow, always trending on social media and Board Game Geek. Need help on your board game?

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Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs  

iXie gaming

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers.

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The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

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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D2 log 074 – New level format

Catnip Games

The graphics backend rewrite took a while. This gives me freedom in level design and saves work making tiles… tileable. Interactive elements will be placed using the in-game editor. However, the situation is now good. Everything is just one big texture. So it’s RGBZ.

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D20 RPG – Pathfinding

The Liquid Fire

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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How We Printed the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

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. They were the creative force behind the game, and really, the soul of it. Need help on your board game? But my role?

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion. The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate.

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