The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In this lesson we will look at making custom boards for our encounters that are data-driven and skinned in a Tilemap. 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.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We needed server infrastructure to create player accounts and store their data, such as auto generated ID, device type, OS information, items in the game, and progress in the game,” says Norman Argueta, Lead Backend Engineer at Harmony Games. Even better that it’s built with the two most popular programming languages, Python and JavaScript.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

As we need to find all possible tiles a unit can move to, A* quickly bogs down because it is designed to find a single path from point A to B as quickly as it can, but finding a path from A to B-Z is a lot of individual paths. static func GetDirection(t1: Tile, t2: Tile): var dir:Directions.Dirs var toTile:Vector2i = t1.pos

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mhz, which is closer to the clock speed of the Amiga and Atari ST than the Atari or C64, and a lot faster than most of us are used to when coding retro games. so there are no additional big data transfers between the chips to wait for, making things all much more efficient. Neo6502 Software and Firmware: What can it do?

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 31, 2024

Agon C/C++ Compiler: AgDev AgDev is a port of the TI-84-CE calculator C/C++ tools for Agon Light and it uses the extremely capable and mature LLVM to generate Z80 and eZ80 ADL code. I won’t go into all the general-purpose C code and game logic here, I will keep that in the main series. My existing C code uses Conio.h

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

GDeflate: An Open GPU Compression Standard GDeflate is a high-performance, scalable, GPU-optimized data compression scheme that can help applications make use of the sheer amount of data throughput available on modern NVMe devices. Data throughput of various data compressed formats compared to varying staging buffer sizes Figure 2.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Prerequisites Some knowledge of code is definitely going to help here. I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. In the Scene panel right-click on the Tile node and click Add Child Node. Under UV1 we need to set the scaling.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It’s well known that parents want their kids to learn STEM skills like coding and math so that down the road they’re ready for the job market. Coding Is Math First of all, don’t be surprised that RP4K talks about how professional coders rely on their math knowledge every day. But what skills? And what jobs?

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The other is that the Axis components in the input manager are split up as one Axis each for positive and negative, and when we check the axis in code, we call a function with the two as parameters. It will mean that if we decide to update it in the future, we won’t have two places to edit map data. save_game.store_8(tiles[key].height)

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

Different creatures can be different sizes, and accordingly may occupy different numbers of tiles, or be able to reach different tiles (such as for attacking). At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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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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Cocos

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

import { game, native, sys } from ‘cc’; // AudioManager.ts let AudioManager = { _plugin: null, init(filePath: string) { console.log("audio manager"); if (sys.os == sys.OS.ANDROID && sys.isNative) { native.reflection.callStaticMethod("com/cocos/game/MyAudioPlugin", "loadAudioFile", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", filePath); // this.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Odds and Ends Gotta check every little thing, like the tiles-ASCII toggling animation, does that work? For the tileset animation I think it was as simple as having needed to set it to match whatever tile size the map is currently using, rather than always using the standard size. How about the map export function?

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 20, 2024

Although I imagine that for the most part the player will only be controlling medium sized units (which occupy a single tile), I also want to make A.I. Even worse is that our current iteration of the pathfinder does not include blocked tiles in its path map, so as it is now, I can’t see a path to an opponent.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The concept is simple, though does require that text characters take up about half the width that tiles do, which can be a little restrictive at certain sizes. Notice how the tiles in this Cogmind screenshot each occupy two cells, delineated by the partial grid overlay. Big chonker tile has arrived. No crashes, just big tiles.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Back to REX Last time I introduced the engine’s base cell size that fits individual text characters, wide glyphs for square map tiles, and the new “quad,” or four map tiles in order to enable a zoomed effect. The first new class was purely to hold interface data that must be preserved during zoom events.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Audience Because Puzzle Breakers is still in soft-launch, we don’t have enough data to make the assumptions about their audience. One could even make an argument that the less puzzling cores such as bubble shooter or tile blasting are not as good of a fit for an audience like this. This speaks of the importance of the core gameplay.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Changes to sub-nodes would result in data loss. To ease on this, it's possible to make an autoloaded scene or script a singleton variable (accessible at global scope) in the project settings: All this, of course, working together perfectly with code completion. New code editor. Improved code completion. Animation editor.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

They've created a system where players can copy a deck code from anywhere online and easily paste it into the game to create that deck. This system has created amazing virality, as players can easily share their deck codes on platforms like Reddit or Marvel Snap Zone, leading to constant changes in the game's meta.

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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. To manage this new data we will of course create a new system.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Entity View A very simple way to get an associated Entity for any given GameObject is to create a Component to hold that data. Position Selection System While I was reviewing the code in the position selection system, I noticed that it had OnEnable and OnDisable methods that it doesn't need.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

open for full size) Okay so each tile actually occupies four times the usual amount of space, but what we mean here is that the cell dimensions are doubled. Instead there are many layers of cell data from different subconsoles that feed into a single root console which is then converted to the final image.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 25, 2024

This time we’ll be working on some scripts to make working with anchor points in code a bit simpler, and allow us to animate some things in our UI. This value is based on the stretch of our tile, plus any offset. This is basically what we’ll be doing in code. 7thSage again. Welcome back to part 6. Size is similar.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. “Semi-modal” 45-Row UI Layout Although players are free to continue using the full 60-row layout originally designed for Cogmind, anyone who does not mind sacrificing some convenience in exchange for greater cell size can use 33% larger tiles and text by switching to a 45-row layout. Two columns of message log data.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Physics: Optimize raycast with large Heightmap shape data ( GH-48709 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

All the data is derived from Sensor Tower’s fantastic data plarform. Clash of Clans has shown unprecedented staying power by staying in the top 10 grossing since 2012 (data: Sensor Tower). Hay Day Pop is Fishdom meet Hay Day with a tile blast mechanic. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1 1 THE HIGH-RISK, HIGH-REWARDS STRATEGY.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Allowing the player too much leeway to cram in as many cities as possible onto the map leads to many, many problems, but it’s especially a problem for games which adopt one-unit-per-tile as it reduces the space for maneuvering between cities, turning the map into a permanent traffic jam.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In the loop we auto add the “start” tile with “retValue.append(start)” However, I think it would be beneficial if we were able to send it through our filter like any other tile, as we’ll use in some of our ranges later. First, lets make a small fix in the RangeSearch() function. _min.y = min(_min.y,

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