Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Volumetric fog is making its first appearance in Godot 4, balancing a realistic look and fast performance, thanks to the use of temporal reprojection. This change aims to address various popping issues, race conditions, and overall poor resampling behavior. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone!

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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

Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s just no way to balance a game with that much variability, and I was afraid to put my thumb on the scale and start covertly killing off rulers who had overstayed their time on the throne. At competitive difficulty levels, VPs serve as a dynamic game timer that the player is racing against to fulfill their ten ambitions.

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AI Simulation Mechanics Mobile Gaming 40

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Over time, this could also create a race to the bottom, where speed prevails and quality drops, in that world the developers with established brands and IPs start to prevail as the difference in production value shines through and captivates an audience looking for the anti-AI ad. To balance CPIs (now $1.20

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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. There is also an escalation in strategy as the players fill up their boards by acquiring more and more Leader tiles. They have just a single Leader tile and their monster’s unique “personal craving.”

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