Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The features were reason enough for the wide popularity of the game shortly after its release. Core Mechanics of an Endless Runner Game Game mechanics make a video game engaging and challenging for players. The environment of the game has the player’s character sandboards through the desert which features rain and thunderstorms.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). To keep players engaged, the game features a leaderboard that motivates players to achieve better results by solving more complex puzzles. Among new releases, we have identified two games with similar mechanics of unscrewing wooden panels.

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“I remember when an Early Access update added the overworld feature. Disappointed by the lack of integration of the overworld feature into RimWorld, he further developed his idea. We discovered that in some cases, it took twice as long as normal to implement features. It looked really exciting to me”, he says.

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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

and Creatify: For video-based ads featuring AI-generated actors. to $2.50) with LTVs of $2 to $4, hybrid-casual games have grown more complex, borrowing features from casual games. A standout example is Hexa Sort by Lion Studios, where players place tiles to create matches. Poolday.ai To balance CPIs (now $1.20

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Although two games have significant differences in core mechanics, we found out, as a part of our Travel Town deconstruction, that the main reason for its take-off is a unique approach to LiveOps and monetization. The weekend events in the game also certainly have room for improvement. It adds randomness to each attempt to complete the level.

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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

Now, let's examine how these features and more were introduced to the players. Designing a Tile Match level When designing puzzle levels, one of the initial goals should be to ensure that players can easily recognize patterns. Using square tiles instead of the rectangular ones from Mahjong Solitaire games enhances this further.

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Cocos

AUGUST 8, 2024

Recently, YouTube officially announced a major update, declaring the full platform launch of its mini-games feature, YouTube Playables, available on all platforms (Android, iOS, and web), with dozens of selected mini-games built-in. Tile Master Engine Version : Cocos Creator 2.4.4 Let’s take a look at what’s available.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

For a quick and general introduction of the game, it’s a player vs player only CCG game, which limits your cards to only 10 per deck, each game is less than 4 minutes, and it uses a very simple poker-like betting mechanic to keep things interesting. However, Marvel Snap has simplified this mechanic to make it even more accessible.

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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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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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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 13, 2024

While we are at it, I will implement some new features. First, I will add another monster – this time a Giant Rat, to take advantage of our new Size mechanics. See below for a comparison of using the feature directly, vs by the extension: // Use directly: var result = IEntityFilterSystem.Resolve().Apply(filter,

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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. The game also features some nice little tweaks to the gameplay that differentiate it from its rivals.

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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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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So if bot-building is a main feature, and players of Cogmind therefore most likely enjoy bot-building, then perhaps there are other areas we could apply this activity? In this test recording, a robot created by the Botcube is represented with a Mutant tile, but will have their own once released. Creating a Botcube mutant.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cosmetics have included multiple new collection mechanisms that grant rewards when acquiring enough of a specific type. This is a standard mechanic (synergies) existing in all other autochess games, and in fact it was quite strange that it wasn’t featured in Clash Mini until now. Source: data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting analysis or designing killer features for consulting clients, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city. Core Gameplay As the gaming market grows more competitive, features shared across games and genres are on the rise.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

comes with a new feature to support the parallel compilation of OptixModule objects containing multiple functions. The payload registers are the mechanism NVIDIA OptiX offers for passing arbitrary data along with a ray, from the caller that traces a ray, and back. Temporal denoising is a new feature from NVIDIA OptiX 7.3

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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. Simply input parameters like genre, target audience, and desired features, and Ludo AI will suggest potential game ideas. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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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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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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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

An inaccessibility is any feature of a game that presents a barrier to enjoyment. 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.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

With that preamble done and due praise given, it is all the more remarkable that one bad game mechanic has been preserved from version to version, tweaked perhaps, adjusted at times, but still as clumsy, fiddly, and unnecessary in 2021 as it was in 1991 – the system of placing citizens on tiles.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Retaining the acquired users with a mini-game : If the hero creative/or playable ad involves a fake gameplay, it is added as a minigame to the events or core mechanics until the player is hooked in with the real in-game content. Game Mechanics Township offers a production puzzle to the players. product management.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Image above showcases sub-genre position for May 19 to the 17 of June, 2024 The fact that Microfun has managed to climb to the second position in the US is incredibly impressive, given that the merge game space is highly competitive and already features a range of titles that is developed in the West.

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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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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Level editor allowing players to create their own tracks is one of the main features. Every part must be set accordingly to the tiles, that size is 30x30x10. All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way. Therefore, we used static, orthographic camera.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Then we further broke down the categories into genres and sub-genres based on feature sets. Tile Blast games, defined largely by Peak Games, continued smooth sailing. Peak is stable and controls its sub-genre of tile blasting. Rovio’s Angry Birds Dream Blast was a great fresh take combining tile blasting and physical puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

As mentioned before, the two games are incredibly similar featuring the same theme and the same core gameplay. Newcomer Lily’s Garden (Tactile Games, Jan 2019) even uses a different core-game (tile-blast instead of match-3) with the same visual progression and narrative driven progression. The red chair or the blue chair?

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 24, 2021

This mechanic was eventually dropped to make border growth completely driven by player actions, and a new one replaced it as the primary role of Culture. Taking them off the tree also allowed a random subset of Wonders to be available each game, a great feature if we ever double the number of Wonders but don’t want to overwhelm the player.

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