Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Engineering Engine Mechanics Games 130

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In such a highly competitive space, innovation is the key to creating new opportunities, and we've seen that with the rise of Physical Match and Tile Match games. Titles like Match Factory , Triple Match 3D , and Tile Busters have successfully carved out space by introducing fresh mechanics to the puzzle category.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As development cycles get longer and break-even points extend, the question isn’t just about how fast you can scale but rather how reliably you can predict when that investment will pay off. AppLovin is seeing high-IP games use ad-based monetization from the hyper-casual world, while casual titles layer in complex mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Once players show interest in something you've created, many game developers worldwide quickly become "inspired" by your game. While finding the blue ocean is the enduring hot topic for game developers, staying relevant as that ocean turns red is a rare and more valuable skill to possess. What is and is not a Tile Match?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic.

Game Design 130

Game Design Game Designer Tile Games 130

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eleventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

Development 130

Development Communications Games Game Design 130

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You create an island of hexagonal tiles, each of which represents a different type of terrain. Resist simple zero-sum mechanics to create a more interesting game. Even 24 years later, we can still look back at this game and learn lessons from it.

Game Design 130

Game Design Game Designer Terrain Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. 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. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Mid-Development.

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Art Games Tile Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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. Need help on your board game? Source ).

Games 130

Games Mechanics Fantasy Tile 130

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? It somehow even won a Grammy award, for Baby Yetu, by my college roommate Christopher Tin, which was definitely not even on the radar when we developed the game. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement. somewhere in the comments.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Getting started in board game development can be both intimidating and expensive. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It’s true that playing more board games will make you a better board game developer. All these games together will teach you a wide variety of mechanics.

Dev 130

Dev Games Mechanics Concepts 130

Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. Generally speaking, opinions were divided over (although largely in favor of) the success of one-unit-per-tile.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 40

Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Core Mechanics of an Endless Runner Game Game mechanics make a video game engaging and challenging for players. The core mechanics involved in an Endless Runner Game include - Player Actions The player interacts in an endless runner game by jumping, sliding, or shifting sideways to avoid obstacles.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

Another mechanic to get all of the mentioned above that two games out of five use is the Fortune Wheel. Magic Tiles 3 Another new entry in the top 10 is Magic Tiles 3 with 24M installs. Leveraging its extensive catalog of content, Magic Tiles 3 uses Subscriptions to drive LTV from day 0.

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Tile Racing Puzzle Games 104

Brand Game Development

JUNE 10, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. For game developers, they’re great case studies in achieving excellence on a budget. If you take anything away from Santorini as a game developer, it should be as follows. Need help on your board game? For gamers, these games are sure bets.

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Games Game Developer Game Development Prop 130

PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Solutions can range from logical and mathematical to visual and motoric, with some challenges requiring the user to rotate their phone—a captivating game mechanic. Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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Puzzle Racing Games Mechanics 104

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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? Need help on your board game?

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Point and Click Games Concepts Mechanics 130

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath. So, are you ready to unleash your inner game developer? Let’s jump in!

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the original version, one player discovered that the optimum strategy was to cover every fourth tile on the board with a city, a mind-numbingly boring strategy that was always the best choice. Namely, building an urban improvement and producing a specialist on any tile extend the city borders in all six directions.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

Playtesting 130

Playtesting Games Advertising Prototyping 130

The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

In this lesson we will begin to fix this issue by introducing size and reach mechanics. 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). This will help me convert from feet to tiles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It is hard to say if this acquisition of a single game hints at a future deal where Moon Active acquires the game’s developer, similar to Zynga's acquisition of Peak. Designing a Tile Match level When designing puzzle levels, one of the initial goals should be to ensure that players can easily recognize patterns.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Back in the heat of the summer of 2017, I wrote two articles about this A Crash Course in Games and A Crash Course in Game Development. A lot of board game developers choose to go through Kickstarter for funding these days. Fundraising.

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Games Art Media Game Design 130

Cocos

AUGUST 8, 2024

YouTube Playables Entry: [link] As the most widely used engine for H5 & mini-game developers, Cocos Creator has always maintained a close eye on the international markets. This allows for timely technical updates to facilitate developers. Tile Master Engine Version : Cocos Creator 2.4.4

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marketing is best understood as an ongoing process that breathes itself into everything you do as a self-publishing board game developer. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” This is how we attracted attention.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. 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. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Gates, which are an ultimate obstacle covering the whole battlefield from tile damage. Core Gameplay.

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Puzzle Tile Mechanics Build 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Together with Mishka, they discuss the highs and lows of Spyke Games, shining a spotlight on their latest sensation, Tile Busters. Rina attributes the success of Tile Busters, their second and most successful game to date, to an experiment gone right. Even if it is not your preferred genre choice. I couldn’t agree more.

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Tile Co-op Games Puzzle 64

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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

The game is polished, fun, and accessible, which is a testament to the amount of time and effort that was put into its four year development. The Beginning Let me walk you through the beginning of the game to illustrate just how well done it is, while also explaining the game’s simple mechanics.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 1, 2023

The system is certainly more complicated than a traditional tech tree, but it helps a lot that many players are already familiar with deck-building mechanics because of their popularity. One of Civ’s most troublesome systems is the tile/citizen model, where your food, production, and commerce is determined by which tiles your citizens work.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 13, 2024

First, I will add another monster – this time a Giant Rat, to take advantage of our new Size mechanics. They can potentially occupy the same tile as other units, and so our current selection process would fail to handle this when merely selecting a tile location. While we are at it, I will implement some new features.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Made in 1964, Acquire is an economic board game with mechanics that we recognize in modern games such as hand management and tile placement. But board games have been around since Mesopotamia , so let’s talk about the top 10 old board games.

Games 130

Games Concepts Game Design Game Designer 130

Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Not long after that I started working on a game (then called City Draft) that would be strongly inspired by a few key influences: 7 Wonders for the mechanics and structure, Carcassonne for the idea of placing tiles in a grid, and SimCity for the theme. Science is purely all or nothing. Few viable paths to victory.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. As part of this drive, for months I’ve been creating over 100 new items, most of them including new mechanics.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.

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Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Playtesting 52