AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem. With a beta launch of its first game “Domino Adventures” (a casual mobile game in the connect tiles space, with an RPG twist) just months away, Harmony also needed a solution that could be implemented quickly.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Puzzle Duel was added to Toy Blast in July 2023 and runs every Monday to Wednesday, expanding the LiveOps framework Matchington Mansion Developer Magic Tavern has taken this idea a step further in Matchington Mansion with its 1v1 competitive event, Bake-Off.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

So of course, when Clash Mini and Supercell social networks started teasing about something big coming up in December 2023, many of us thought it was the global launch. … But there are also deeply impactful changes to the gameplay , which expand the new gameplay direction that was established in the July 2023 update. It was not.

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2d Game Art Guru

APRIL 5, 2023

Frequently used in the art for games, tiles such as the stone wall need to match seamlessly to the next tile in all four directions, while being flexible enough to create variations and transitions to other tiles. This video tutorial is a more advanced example of seamless pattern design in Affinity Designer [ s.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I have been watching progress closely since I saw the first signs about this computer back in summer 2023, but I held off ordering until I could get a board from here in England, which brings me to one of the most surprising things … and that is the price – the target RRP is around €30!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

To understand the changes that got the game from its post-launch slump to where it is now, we should take a look at two things: what kind of game is Merge Gardens is and what it was like before 2023. You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds. Nevertheless, the primary age groups remain the same.

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Nvidia

JULY 11, 2023

Easy geospatial plotting Geospatial charts with multiple options for the underlying tile maps can be shown by simply specifying geo=True : df.hvplot.hexbin(x='start_lng', y='start_lat', geo=True, tiles="OSM") Figure 3. In visualization, “a slider is worth a thousand queries,” or in this case, 12.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The same group showcased Gen AI Materials at SIGGRAPH in August 2023, winning the Real-Time Live show. This is one in a series of NVIDIA research projects seeking to harness the power of AI to support creativity by developing new iterative workflows with real-time AI inference and direct control.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles. In rounds 1, 2, and 3, each location tile is revealed subsequently, which significantly changes the gameplay. Marvel Snap has over 100 location tiles, each of which can significantly impact the game you're playing.

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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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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

The initial plan was to launch a Kickstarter in February of 2023, but back in early December I realized we were going to have to push that back. At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?”

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

In January 2024, Appannie recognized Microfun as the 16th leading Chinese game makers by overseas revenue, an improvement from their debut in the top 30 in January 2023.

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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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