Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Finally, city sites also gave us a natural place for tribal camps, which helps drive conflict and ensures that the player needs to balance expansion with military and not just spam settlers. Civ 5 introduced one unit per tile, a big change for the series.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

Limiting city counts has many gameplay benefits, such as more predictable victory point thresholds based on cities, better balanced per-city bonuses, more consistent city value weights for the AI, and a generous minimum distance between cities to allow breathing room for one-unit-per-tile combat.

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Tile Build Mechanics Prototyping 52

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. Not sure how they will prototype fast enough until they get some. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Studios Mobile Mobile Console 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

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Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. They are meant more for trend analysis based on estimations, rather than an exact numbers.

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Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility. They commonly create prototypes that will act as proof of concept, a crucial early stage of the production pipeline. Others are writers and/or world directors who focus on player experience.

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Film Animation Animation Concepts 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction. It made $5.1

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Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69

Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. Acquiring more Leader tiles gives the player more to try to balance. In my first prototype, I had special “Draft Leaders” cards shuffled into segments of the Adventurer deck. But how do you do that?

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Tile Games Playtesting Balance 130

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. L of semen for each one.

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