Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Personally, I like the art on the cards. My husband is a bit more into game mechanics and the nitty gritty (can’t you tell I’m pleased I married a game developer? Preferred Game Mechanics : Very colorful, Incorporates a clicking noise, Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety (although a bit more fidgety than what I would like).

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Point and Click Games Concepts Mechanics 130

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“In the end we’d rather tone down some of our more ambitious features to get acceptable performance, and deliver a bug-free and polished release to our players.” “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.” ” The decision to switch engines was only made fairly recently.

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Dev Development Feature Prototyping 118

The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. For this lesson I created a couple of simple images to use for tile maps. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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Tile Point and Click Asset Scripting 52

Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

All the considerations that go into making a game – length, weight, price, art style, gameplay, packaging, and so on – needs to be tailored for a very specific audience. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to.

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Advertising Games Media Concepts 130

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Drapple is an abstract, tile-laying gardening game. Except that’s not really all, is it?

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Playtesting Games Advertising Prototyping 130

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

While Match-3 remains the dominant force in this competition, we've seen other subgenres like Merge taking the second place, while others, like Tile Match, showed potential but ultimately fell short. Merge surpassed Blast last year and looks like “Pair” that mainly has Physical Match and Tile Match will do the same at the end of this year.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mechanics Feature Tile 52

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. As part of this drive, for months I’ve been creating over 100 new items, most of them including new mechanics.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Alpha 52

Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.

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Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Playtesting 52

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

The game and mechanics themselves skew much more casual than the core titles in this comparison, but arguably the game is also slightly more casual than Travel Town and Merge Mansion. “Gossip Harbor” excels in framing the merge experience within a robust and well-managed live operations framework within a very casual looking game.

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Balance Mechanics Games Build 98

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Tile Blast games, defined largely by Peak Games, continued smooth sailing. Peak is stable and controls its sub-genre of tile blasting. Both Firecraft Studios and Playrix borrowed freely from each other whether it came to core gameplay, theme, art style, store creatives, icons or video creatives.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Games Tile Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

The social gameplay and the cartoonish art style helped the game become popular with the younger Gen Z audience. Hay Day Pop is Fishdom meet Hay Day with a tile blast mechanic. On the other hand, the theme, art style, and UI are all proven, smart re-uses of existing elements from other games. It’s just not a great game.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mobile Gaming 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The interface, and the art style in general look very ‘Supercelly’. Core Gameplay. Destructible spawn portals.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Tile Mechanics Build 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Royal Match Royal Match is a perfect example of finding success through improvements - not step-change innovation - cherry-picking the strongest mechanics from the best games to create a new top game. The majority of growth in 2020 in Match-3 games came from Tile Blast, Puzzle & Decorate, and classic match-3 games. With $3.7B

Puzzle 69

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69

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

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

Newcomer Lily’s Garden (Tactile Games, Jan 2019) even uses a different core-game (tile-blast instead of match-3) with the same visual progression and narrative driven progression. The red chair or the blue chair? Participating in events and visiting a friend’s mansion unlocks more decorative options. A brilliant addition.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Studios Tile Mechanics 52

Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

Made in 1964, Acquire is an economic board game with mechanics that we recognize in modern games such as hand management and tile placement. Modern Art (1992). But relatively few thematic games had any real heft to them. That’s what makes Acquire uniquely remarkable. Basically, the goal is to get really, really rich.

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Games Concepts Game Design Game Designer 130

The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Overview This lesson is focused on adding some art assets to represent our combatants. We will also provide a tile based room for them to fight in. A flag named flipDirection helps me know which way the art is facing so I can flip it if needed. We will add animated sprites to represent both a hero and monster.

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Animation Animation Demo Sprite 52

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. Are you excited? Hobby Board Games.

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Tile Games Point and Click Art 130

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. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player.

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