Catnip Games
MARCH 19, 2022
I made a “master sheet” with all the tiles to keep things organized. I implemented a new material system for tiles. In addition to the visible texture, each tile had a lower resolution bitmap which defined the material at a given spot. They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier.
Designer Notes
MARCH 31, 2023
So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? One good reason is to know your inheritance, to reexamine it, to look for ideas which were baked into the very earliest version of the game and see if changing them could transform the experience. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement.
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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). Unlike UO, they can change. (On Like SWG, we have the notion of these materials actually having varying statistics.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Editor: Fix autocomplete on functions returning variants ( GH-69897 ).
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Editor: Fix autocomplete on functions returning variants ( GH-69897 ).
Nvidia
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
On the other hand, parallelizing the traditional data compression algorithms has been challenging, due to fundamental serial assumptions “baked” into their design. First, the original data stream is segmented into 64 KB tiles, which are processed independently. This also enables random access to the compressed data at tile granularity.
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. They advance through the reward track each time they win a match.
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