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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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 20, 2024

Epic today held its annual State of Unreal event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, with new announcements for gamers and developers alike. On the player side of things, the big attraction of the event was no doubt the first look at the new Marvel game from Skydance New Media and Amy Hennig, 1943: Rise of Hydra.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Two to five players build the French village of Carcassonne, one tile at a time. Tiles must be built to where features are continuous – you can’t simply run a road into the city wall. Need help on your board game? The titles are randomized.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay.

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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?

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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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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Introduction : The importance of selecting a proper game backend Selecting a game backend solution is one of the most significant decisions that game studios face during development. The decision criteria varies depending on the type of game being released, the game launch timeline, the available engineering resources, and studio budgets.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. To celebrate the launch, I’ll be releasing a five-part case study on the development of the game every week for the next five weeks. After playing, I agreed.

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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. It made game development, artwork, and promotion all a lot easier. Interactivity.

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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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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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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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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 3, 2020

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

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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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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

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. It is similar to Magic Tiles 3 from the gameplay perspective, but its monetization is IAA-driven.

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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. Revamping Mechanics to Match User Expectations Mechanics like tile placement have surged in popularity as they blend accessibility with high engagement.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

These trends are reshaping how businesses approach user acquisition, product development, and retention. Each trend offers actionable insights for marketers, developers, and advertisers navigating the ever-changing landscape of mobile gaming and digital advertising. Products like AXON and MAX have made the company into a powerhouse.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While this includes companies beyond game development — such as platforms, tech solutions, and web3 startups — all the entities in our study operate within the gaming sector. Out of the 28 companies that raised funding: — 17 making PC&сonsole games, of which six are also developing for mobile platforms. —

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle is a collection of game development related assets from the GameDev Marketplaces. It consists primarily of pixel art graphic packs (character sprites, tiles and tilemaps and effects) as well as sound packs (ambient, foley effects, sfx and more). The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At Unite 2024, Unity’s development team introduced a series of advanced GPU optimization techniques aimed at improving rendering performance across various platforms. Whether you are developing for high-end PCs, consoles, or mobile devices, these methods are critical for delivering visually rich, smooth-running applications.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 22, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This is why, for example, Tasty Humans uses punchboard and not Azul -like acrylic 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). As we are still in the early beta phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. My Top 5 Games My “I’d rather clean the bathrooms” Games Board Games for Dating Marrying a Game Developer . Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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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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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. Even 24 years later, we can still look back at this game and learn lessons from it. Need help on your board game? Catan is pretty straightforward.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

x/demo/2d/Creator3.6.0_2D_FlashLight Contribute to yeshao2069/CocosCreatorShader development by creating an account on GitHub. You can refer to this demo to see github.com CocosCreatorShader/demo/2d/Creator3.6.0_2D_FlashLight at v3.6.x

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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. This asset will be sort of abstract data, and can be “skinned” with specific tiles at a later point. They are available in this package here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Mobile GPUs are very different from desktop GPU, to make better use of limited access to fast memory mobile GPUs use a tile based architecture. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles. All geometry is processed first while the GPU keeps track of which triangles need to be rendered to each tile.

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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?

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If your previous development experience is based on OpenGL, you may find that the texture on your grid is vertically flipped. By default, the 3D Shader of Cocos will multiply the tile Tilling and add the Offset, and it also supports the flip repair for RenderTexture. Due to the difference from OpenGL (and frameworks based on it).

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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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Cocos

MAY 17, 2023

I am new in game development. Can i create child node in tile node of tilemap (Map i created using Tiled Software). i want to do this so that i will be able to add custom tile functionality to show stops tile of ludo game and arrange pawns. I am trying to create Ludo game using #TiledMap. I tried to do point no.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 31, 2024

For all my tutorials I tend to lean towards the same cross-platform dungeon crawler that I have been mainly so-far writing for Commodore machines using BASIC or CC65, and have also developed playable demos using using TRSE. tile = c; enemies[enemy_count].room tile = 158; enemies[enemy_count].room speed) { // Damage!

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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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