Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Looking ahead, the biggest opportunities I see for growth and innovation in 2025 will center around advancements in AI-driven content creation, new monetization opportunities utilizing e-commerce, loyalty programs, and hybrid casual. and Creatify: For video-based ads featuring AI-generated actors. Poolday.ai

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 11, 2023

NVIDIA researchers took the stage at SIGGRAPH Asia Real-Time Live event in Sydney to showcase generative AI integrated into an interactive texture painting. Rather than generating complete results with only high-level user guidance, this prototype shows how AI can function as a brush in the hands of an artist.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

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. Generally speaking, opinions were divided over (although largely in favor of) the success of one-unit-per-tile.

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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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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. But that’s not all!

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This is a neat way to introduce brand new board game devs to odd concepts like modular boards – that is, boards that do not have the same form every time you play. The core concept is dead simple: someone leads each team by giving them one word cues that are intended to associate with words laid out in a 5×5 grid.

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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. For instance, Zugzwang's hanky code also gives a vital hint for predicting AI behavior.

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