Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Creating a great scoring system in a board game can be a difficult process. Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Scoring rules are among the most important, particularly in euro games. Need help on your board game? So how do you do it?

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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. Part of their popularity comes from the ease with which they add variety to games. Need help on your board game? So how do we implement them?

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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 22, 2019

Perfect board game pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. Need help on your board game? But how do you do that?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. These titles earned – and keep – respect in the hobby gaming community. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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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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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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

One of the hallmarks of good board game design is being able to create hard choices. Let’s talk about how you can create hard choices in your board game. He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

When looking at the Top 10 hypercasual games in the first quarter of 2023, AppMagic noticed some interesting trends. You can read about these games in more detail here. Monetization practices First of all, all the top ten games use the Meta Audience Network as their in-app ads monetization partner. Top 5 Newcomers 1.

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Cocos

MAY 1, 2024

Then I generate nodes from this array, but use the TILED type for the sprite and generate one sprite in one ground line and stretch the sprite in width. This approach turned out to be expensive 12,999 triagle and 2 FPS generation option: 2 create an array [ 0[{x,y},{x,y},{x,y}], 1[.]. Got 3,490 triagle and 4 FPS.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Hello, Im new to both cocos2d and c++ im making a game I already did the menu and when I click enter i need a game scene to be implemented, im working on the game map now, and when I write it on my code as the following: bool GameScene::init(). {. //////////////////////////////. // 1. super init first. Layer::init()). {.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 28, 2022

yes I am trying to load a tilemap into my project, i have a gamescene file, and a mainmenu that has a button in it, when I click it it goes to the gamescene, in the game scene I try to load a tilemap, it shows that theres an error and it opens the file CCTMXXMLParser.cpp as if it’s indicating to me that theres an error related to this line of the cctmxxmlparser (..)

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Are you excited?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Christmas 2022 was made very special for some as Moon Active announced the acquisition of the casual puzzle game Zen Match for as much as $150M. It is hard to say if this acquisition of a single game hints at a future deal where Moon Active acquires the game’s developer, similar to Zynga's acquisition of Peak.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. So I decided to keep the visual style of this project as a simple 2D game and to make my boards with a Tilemap so that I could demonstrate solutions for those questions. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Playtika has acquired Innplay Labs, the mobile studio behind games such as Tiles of Fortune and Animals & Coins. As reported by GamesBeat , Playtika will pay an upfront fee of $80 million to acquire the Israel-based studio, which could increase up to $300 million.

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Cocos

AUGUST 3, 2023

If I unchecked culling, then it was going to lag the game. It worked, but there is another issue: if I checked culling in some areas, it didn’t render the base layer.

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Catnip Games

JULY 10, 2022

Good progress on the tileset. I made basic outlines and shapes in Blender, then exported into Pixelmator for touchups and additional dirt layers. First time I used Geometry Nodes in Blender. The rest though, not so much… it’s a lot of work to make everything seamless, color matched and correctly exported.

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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? A clear objective.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the latest episode of the DoF Podcast, Mishka reconnects with Rina Onur Sirinoglu, CEO of Spyke Games, to talk about her exciting new mobile gaming venture, which recently secured a $55 million seed round. Rina co-founded Peak Games, which has become a game-changer in the Turkish gaming scene.

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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. Because we are going to be updating and viewing the tiles in the editor, we need the @tool command at the top. The next two values let the tile itself keep track of its position.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are the games that I’ve worked on. Spoiler alert: Civilization 3 and 4 are going to come up a lot in the presentation… I also do a podcast where I interview game designers about why they make games, so check it out if you have time for 4-hour interviews. So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game?

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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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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

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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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. 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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Catnip Games

JULY 17, 2022

It was fun but also hard to come up with something actually usable in the game. It doesn’t tile properly but the seam is hard to notice so I’m fine with it. I also tried distortion for the bottom layer but UV wrapping is a problem because the tiles are in a texture atlas.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 13, 2024

They can potentially occupy the same tile as other units, and so our current selection process would fail to handle this when merely selecting a tile location. They can potentially occupy the same tile as other units, and so our current selection process would fail to handle this when merely selecting a tile location.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

My game is tiled base and looking at the screenshot, I can see the tiles but their textures are pointing to a different texture it seems. I use texturepacker and I have a few big 1024x1024 textures loaded with: SpriteFrameCache::getInstance()->addSpriteFramesWithFile. Nothing fancy.

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Cocos

MAY 17, 2023

I am new in game development. I am trying to create Ludo game using #TiledMap. Can i create child node in tile node of tilemap (Map i created using Tiled Software). i want to do this so that i will be able to add custom tile functionality to show stops tile of ludo game and arrange pawns.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Im trying to create game with isometric tiledmap and im using Tiled app to create the map. Everything work fine till i’m trying to change a tiled at runtime via setTileGIDAt. Nothing happen after I call the function, no error, no warning or anything.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Im trying to create game with isometric tiledmap and im using Tiled app to create the map. Everything work fine till i’m trying to change a tiled at runtime via setTileGIDAt. Nothing happen after I call the function, no error, no warning or anything.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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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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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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? For context, I’d like to carefully define what board game specs are for.

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Collision Detection and Game Over.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 14, 2023

You can start playing mahjong right away against strong opponents, improving your game. In addition, R Mahjong has a training mode in which you see the hands of your opponents and also tips from the AI - which tile to discard and make an announcement or not (Chi, Pon, Kan, Riichi).

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