PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). The concept here is quite similar: users need to move screws around to drop all the wooden blocks on the screen. Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The concept is the following: players start with a small hole (or as one, if you wish) and grow by devouring objects smaller than their current size, as well as other players’ holes. Clearly, the audience continues to love it still.

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2024

We embed mathematical concepts in all our courses, even for those just starting out on their coding journey! Math concepts are built into our courses. While all of our coding classes have math concepts in them, we also offer new applied math courses at a beginner, intermediate, and advanced level.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Maybe this is standard for engine-building games, but it was a new concept to me. (It’s Besides getting money, I like this phase because it really sticks to the concept that you are a company. Once I realized that we could keep going as long as we wanted (essentially), I found a whole new element to the game that I enjoyed.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

That was mind boggling to me and a completely new concept. And don’t even think about moving the played wild card when switching tiles around; that’ll get a flipped table for sure. When the pegs fell out of the stand and all your tiles fell….ah And then, best of all, there was a PURPLE Lady in an AMAZING HAT as a character.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

The concept is so absurd that Stanley Kubrick made a comedy movie out of it. All of the hard-to-organize cardboard map tiles have been removed, and instead players will play on the scenario book itself, which features new artwork unique to each scenario. It has incredibly clever area control and hand management mechanics.

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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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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

They’re both games where you move around a grid of different tile types, and the one you’re standing on determines what you can do there. At this point you live or die by what tiles happen to be between you and it – if they all do 1 blue damage and the enemy has 4 blue health, you are dead.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. A new concept alone is no longer enough; founders must present a clear vision for how their product will penetrate the market and cultivate a dedicated fan base. While neither became widely popular, they generated around 1.4

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Unlike every other piece, it can move to some tiles only if they’re empty, and to others only if they’re occupied, and only if by an enemy. That would already have me going back to the drawing board of a game concept to see if there’s a more elegant way of hitting the design goals. That’s not it!

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. So far we have only used one sprite so my sprite bank now includes a background tile as Sprite 2 and the monster sprite as Sprite 3. Avoid the Monster.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Targeting Attention, Interest, Desire, And Action Product Your Niche Price Process & Logistics Core Concepts of Promotion Outreach Reviews Distribution Kickstarter Advertising. This concept is called product-market fit. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Core Concepts of Promotion.

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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. Enter: the quad.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. I’ve listened to so many designers describe how through play-testing, a game came out dramatically different then their initial concept because the new version was more fun.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

The original version of the code marked the class as abstract, which GDScript does not seem to have any concept of. I removed the check for whether or not a tile is valid from the original tutorial. My reasoning here is that it will allow us to move our cursor over empty tiles, without the need to create dummy empty tiles.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

He also highlights the importance of staying motivated and inspired by customizing the background of GameMaker Studio with concept art or favorite game art. Or not the tile sets, but those will come in our action platform or the last game that we’re going to make.

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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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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

UI Requirements Cogmind’s original UI concept had two basic requirements: a sufficiently large map view area, and a persistently visible list of all parts. That said, for everyone else who still can’t handle the smaller text, a zoomable map would only serve to further highlight the disparity between tile size and text size.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. Gates, which are an ultimate obstacle covering the whole battlefield from tile damage. When it comes to heroes Puzzle Breakers has the same concept as E&P. Core Gameplay.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Rather than enabling you to generate and iterate on square tiling physically based rendering (PBR) materials that can then be applied to UV-mapped 3D objects, this project enables you to directly control the placement, scale, and direction of textures by interactive painting. Inspiration images are a common concept in 3D design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

5) 24h Rotating Magic Tiles Magic Tiles are special tiles in a board that trigger a unique effect. While an interesting concept, on the original release they felt a bit pointless and lacked visibility, as they were linked to specific boards that appeared based on the Trophy Road progression.

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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. These speeds are in my dev build, which has a lower FPS than released versions, so I’m just looking at it for relative comparison.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This type of level designing involves procedural generation where reusable tiles (including power-ups, obstacles, and aesthetic features) are randomly assembled. Source: Adweek ) Conclusion Logic Simplified is a Unity Game Development Company with the finest, most creative game concept artists, 2D and 3D game designers, and UX designers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This is why Godot does not have the concept or distinction between prefabs and scenes. Additionally, by having higher level nodes, Godot does not have the concept of "scene settings", as these is done with nodes too. The result is a much greater ability to do composition than in a traditional ECS approach.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Item integrity loss on use : This concept is fundamentally similar to the disposable mechanic, although not quite the same thing since usage simultaneously weakens the item itself, making it more vulnerable to destruction, and for the same reason damage to the item directly reduces its remaining uses. Very afraid.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?” work, is that life is too short to spend months or years trying to get a game concept working.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a consequence, autochess has remained as a niche concept that hinted at a strong potential but that nobody has been able to find a way to turn into a profitable product ready for mass adoption (at least in the West). The concept of a seasonal content reset it’s a risky but high reward opportunity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5. x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Thus, Tile Busters was born. Before delving into the game and its details, it is worth noting how the metagame of Tile Busters is constructed. And pivot that they did.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

While trends are always changing, there are a few basic concepts that do not. But they also emphasized custom meeples and tiles, both of which are popular components. Ideally, you want to look at the pages of highly funded games for campaigns whose games resemble your specific niche – sci-fi, worker placement, etc.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. Every week for the next year, and probably well beyond that, I’ll be posting a new article to this series.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. The relative success of Belka Games’ Clockmaker demonstrates an appetite for different kinds of meta concepts, choosing to focus on resource management combined with a mystery narrative. 2021 is the year when this will really change.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Prediction #3 Loyalty Programs: Growing To 10%+ Of Your Marketing Mix Loyalty programs are hardly a new concept; they can be viewed as a modern iteration of one of mobiles longest-standing ad units, the OfferWall. A standout example is Hexa Sort by Lion Studios, where players place tiles to create matches.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

The majority of growth in 2020 in Match-3 games came from Tile Blast, Puzzle & Decorate, and classic match-3 games. Items are hidden on the board and the player must match over tiles to unearth them. Royal Match’s power-ups are the most vigorous by the size of tiles cleared. With $3.7B This is another nod to player agency.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

That aspect being players dropping pieces into the monsters’ stomachs and strategically arranging them to maximize their overall “satisfaction” Monsters are eating adventurers with their stomachs being some kind of puzzle that you drop the adventurers into was the initial concept. Cathala leveraged a simple twist.

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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. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. L of semen for each one.

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