Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

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Designer Notes

APRIL 1, 2023

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Now, let’s talk about the tech tree, which has always had a problem with golden paths.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 78

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. 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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DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

 That is, instead of rendering your animation frame by frame on your local PC, the job is being split into multiple frames (or even tiles) and each machine in the render farm renders just some of them.

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Game Errors

MARCH 3, 2023

Have you tried launching Halo Infinite and received an error message: ‘ Could not find compatible Graphics Device due to the following missing feature: Hardware Tiled Resources Tier 2’ ? Visit the Microsoft website and download the latest Visual C++ Redistributable files for Visual Studio 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Subway Surfers was the most popular game for three consecutive years, with 218 million downloads in 2023, 304 million in 2022, and 191 million in 2021. This type of level designing involves procedural generation where reusable tiles (including power-ups, obstacles, and aesthetic features) are randomly assembled.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Since its release in 2022, Gossip Harbor has enjoyed remarkably stable and close to linear growth, which is especially impressive in a post ATT-world. Executive Summary If you follow the mobile gaming market, you’re probably aware of the “shark-fin” phenomenon—games that skyrocket in popularity only to plummet just as quickly.

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Balance Mechanics Games Build 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. There is, of course, great news for those waiting on C# support to return to the engine, as it was noticeably missing from alpha builds throughout 2022. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone! It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. Windows: Implement limited surrogate pairs support (better UTF-8 support, emoji fonts) ( GH-54625 ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Thus, Tile Busters was born. Before delving into the game and its details, it is worth noting how the metagame of Tile Busters is constructed. And pivot that they did.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. The earliest would be 2022 and until then they’ll most likely scratch the puzzle itch through investment in studios who specialize in puzzle.

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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. Robert Yang, 2022; (right) poem "Long years apart."

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