PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This also meant we had less dev time to fix bugs or optimize performance. Without it, rendering the 800.000 tiles that compromise the game map became problematic, so the team had to spend a week on optimizing that. We discovered that in some cases, it took twice as long as normal to implement features.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Tasty Humans , points are earned by monsters for eating people and arranging their body part tiles in certain ways in the monster’s stomach. There are limits to exactly how you can place tiles, and you don’t always get what you want. one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

You create an island of hexagonal tiles, each of which represents a different type of terrain. The least intuitive mechanic is probably the robber who steals resource cards from other players when you roll a 7, and to be honest, you remember it when the number is rolled simply because 7 does not appear anywhere on the board.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. To sell in this awfully noisy, competitive board gaming environment, you have to have mechanics and art that people really enjoy. On the note of mechanics, we were really lucky.

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Art Games Tile Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

JUNE 10, 2019

What strikes me about this game is not the gameplay mechanics themselves. This is in addition to your standard board game fare: cards, tiles, and so on. or Less appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. No, what shocks me is that it’s only $19.99. Why is this shocking?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Don’t broadcast. Narrowcast instead. Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action.

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Advertising Games Media Concepts 130

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

My husband is a bit more into game mechanics and the nitty gritty (can’t you tell I’m pleased I married a game developer? Preferred Game Mechanics : Very colorful, Incorporates a clicking noise, Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety (although a bit more fidgety than what I would like). From Board Game Geek. Phase 4: Production Phase.

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Point and Click Games Concepts Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That means card games, dice games, miniature games, and tile-based games also fall under the purview of what is frequently called “board games.” appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Yet you must understand that people often use the phrase “board games” to refer to a larger subset of games known more accurately as “tabletop games.”

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Games Art Media Game Designer 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cosmetics have included multiple new collection mechanisms that grant rewards when acquiring enough of a specific type. There may be something true to those statements which, I guess, is the reason why now devs have allowed the Hero to move once per match. Source: data.ai

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Tile Mechanics Balance Feature 69

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

I like it when games offer a visual cue as to probability (like Catan’s number tiles), and when arithmetic operations come with physical tokens that you can manipulate instead of doing straight up arithmetic. The post How to Develop Mentally and Emotionally Accessible Board Games appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Development Communications Games Game Designer 130

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Drapple is an abstract, tile-laying gardening game. Except that’s not really all, is it? Got any war stories from your game projects?

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Playtesting Games Advertising Prototyping 130

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Written by Ahmetcan Demirel , the maestro of product management and a podcast host ( Game Dev Diary ) from Germany! While Match-3 remains the dominant force in this competition, we've seen other subgenres like Merge taking the second place, while others, like Tile Match, showed potential but ultimately fell short.

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Puzzle Mechanics Feature Tile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Previous versions of the engine provided users with a powerful, but obscured mechanism for preparing imported 3D assets. Probably the biggest improvement relying on that is the new Tiles editor, which has been reimagined based on your requests and reports. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone!

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

All these games together will teach you a wide variety of mechanics. This is a neat way to introduce brand new board game devs to odd concepts like modular boards – that is, boards that do not have the same form every time you play. Don’t study the mechanics of this game. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Dev Games Mechanics Concepts 130

Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

You can see this reflected in the 9 and 10 scores of Board Game Geek, where people repeat some variation of “I really can’t explain it” and rattle off mechanics while trying to explain it. It has incredibly clever area control and hand management mechanics. That tells you all you need to know.

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Games Mechanics Fantasy Tile 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

One of the main problems in Clash Mini is the strong similarity with Clash Royale , the other Supercell auto battler whose gameplay and unit mechanics are very similar. This is an existential threat to Clash Mini since the lack of innovation in-unit mechanics was among the top reasons why Rush Wars failed to captivate players.

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Content Mechanics Point and Click Mobile 52

Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

Made in 1964, Acquire is an economic board game with mechanics that we recognize in modern games such as hand management and tile placement. The post The Top 10 Old Board Games (Before Catan) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. But relatively few thematic games had any real heft to them. You never know what you might find.

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Games Concepts Game Designer Game Design 130

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

Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics. I knew I needed a mechanic that gave players a choice of one adventurer from several options. When selecting a game mechanic, it is the most familiar solution. This was a warning that I might be taking the path of least resistance when picking a mechanic.

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Tile Mechanics Games Puzzle 130

Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

In each of the design diaries that I have written so far, I have focused on a specific game mechanic or isolated portion of the game. 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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Tile Games Playtesting Balance 130

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. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player.

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