Raph Koster

JULY 3, 2024

Like UO, every “tile” knows what materials it is. On UO, we could only change the totals every 64 tiles, and we couldn’t reflect it visually at all, because the map was baked down and static). Like UO, creature AI is driven by looking for these underlying qualities — not by referencing specific object types.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the original version, one player discovered that the optimum strategy was to cover every fourth tile on the board with a city, a mind-numbingly boring strategy that was always the best choice. Namely, building an urban improvement and producing a specialist on any tile extend the city borders in all six directions.

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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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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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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There are different actions for moving, and is why you see “Stride” vs “Step” A step is only a single tile of movement and can avoid acts of opportunity, whereas a Stride can move much further, but does provoke acts of opportunity. The goal of this lesson is to begin implementing the Stride action.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Carcassonne is a classic tile-laying game where you and your opponent take turns building the French countryside with cities, roads, cloisters, and fields. The AI is fairly robust, although you’ll outgrow it after about 20-25 games. Game #4: Carcassonne on Amazon – $17.55. Photo from Wikipedia , under the CC BY-SA 3.0

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

With that preamble done and due praise given, it is all the more remarkable that one bad game mechanic has been preserved from version to version, tweaked perhaps, adjusted at times, but still as clumsy, fiddly, and unnecessary in 2021 as it was in 1991 – the system of placing citizens on tiles.

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Tile Terrain Game Design Game Designer 40

Designer Notes

APRIL 1, 2023

One of Civ’s most troublesome systems is the tile/citizen model, where your food, production, and commerce is determined by which tiles your citizens work. Each citizen in a city is assigned to a specific tile, and these tiles all have different yields, and the player has the freedom to move every citizen around every turn.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Obviously, the AI could still wipe the player out, but the real problem would be if the player falls behind and gets stuck in purgatory where the AI is dominant and the higher-tier ambitions are too difficult to achieve. Of course, one might ask, wouldn’t the player lose if the AI fulfills their ten ambitions first?

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 DLSS is a deep learning super resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher resolution images. Dedicated computational units on NVIDIA RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores accelerate the AI calculations, allowing the algorithm to run in real-time.

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Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology 40

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In this test recording, a robot created by the Botcube is represented with a Mutant tile, but will have their own once released. The answer is most , but there are a few exceptions, generally including things that AI-controlled bots can’t really use, or aren’t suitable for certain types of allies from an architectural standpoint.

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Mechanics Build Point and Click Tile 52

Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Players will frequently rant over “unpredictable” or “random” AI leaders who suddenly go from being a friend to an enemy. It is hard to articulate how significant a departure this is from a tension that has always bedeviled Civ games – that players expect diplomacy to be predictable, but predictable diplomacy inevitably becomes boring.

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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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