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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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

It has been lightly edited for clarity and flow. 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. Below is a transcript of our conversation over Discord DMs.

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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. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation via Facebook Messenger. Drapple is an abstract, tile-laying gardening game.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. You were free to do whatever you felt like at any given moment.

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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. Set key parameters for your model, like size, shape, or complexity, and Kaidim will automatically adjust the geometry as you make edits.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It may be possible to edit your project file manually, but otherwise it's recommended to let Godot generate a new one. Previous versions of the engine provided users with a powerful, but obscured mechanism for preparing imported 3D assets. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone!

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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. Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition).

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will also provide a tile based room for them to fight in. I want the combatants that are lower on the tile map to appear above the combatants higher on the tile map so that they appear closer. Summary In this lesson we dressed up the Encounter scene by adding a tile based level map and sprites for our combatants.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

and Michail Katkoff for edits and data. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. Gone are the days where a reasonable attempt at a core mechanic and a saga map were all you needed for 6 figure revenue. She was previously at King, Wooga and Mind Candy.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics. Below, I have lightly edited the original work from his blog and – in some cases – replaced images with ones from the production copy of Tasty Humans. I knew I needed a mechanic that gave players a choice of one adventurer from several options.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Below, I have lightly edited the original work from his blog. 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.

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

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