Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The placement of tiles is part of the core engine. Game design is a notoriously imprecise science.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to My Elephant in the Room: An Old World Design Postmortem. Here are the games that I’ve worked on. Spoiler alert: Civilization 3 and 4 are going to come up a lot in the presentation… I also do a podcast where I interview game designers about why they make games, so check it out if you have time for 4-hour interviews.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. 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.

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Interesting Choices

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I'm also playing around with adding more "build around me" tiles that come early in the game, so that players can have a direction and get especially excited about tiles that they might be able to pick up later.

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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. Need help on your board game? mm x 228.6mm) with 48 tiles 48: circular,5” x.5” Printing Basics.

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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. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? The Early Design.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

This article is the eleventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming. A lot of this is just good game design.).

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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.” People say “board games” to mean “tabletop games” the way people say “White House” to mean “US government.” Game Design. All games start with ideas.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? I studied Game Design at UAT in Tempe, AZ and graduated with honors in 2009.

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Raph Koster

JULY 3, 2024

Like UO, every “tile” knows what materials it is. On UO, we could only change the totals every 64 tiles, and we couldn’t reflect it visually at all, because the map was baked down and static). Unlike UO, they can change. (On Like SWG, we have the notion of these materials actually having varying statistics.

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Tom Francis

MARCH 11, 2017

I released Morphblade last week, which is a game I made in direct response to Michael Brough’s Imbroglio. They’re both games where you move around a grid of different tile types, and the one you’re standing on determines what you can do there. This is at least half the game, and I like it.

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Interesting Choices

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And while overall I've been overjoyed with the response, I've seen a few comments from people who dislike the inclusion of the disaster tiles in the game, and I realized that I haven't ever sat down to write out my thoughts for why I included the mechanic despite knowing that those tiles would be controversial. Psychology.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. Now in a game development team, there are lots of other roles as well.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

The following is an excerpt from the Designer Notes for Old World. The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The first Civilization game was like a game design thunderbolt, sent from the heavens and marking everything it touched.

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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. But Acquire did it better than any other game out there. Reiner Knizia is an absurdly prolific board game designer who is still making board games today.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

State Machines A very useful pattern that you will frequently run into in game design is the State Machine. I removed the check for whether or not a tile is valid from the original tutorial. My reasoning here is that it will allow us to move our cursor over empty tiles, without the need to create dummy empty tiles.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

OK, so as far as I can tell, the pawn has always been fiddly all the way back to chaturanga, the game chess comes from. Unlike every other piece, it can move to some tiles only if they’re empty, and to others only if they’re occupied, and only if by an enemy. Ooh, tough game design problem! NO, idiots!

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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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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

You can use it to create tile maps for your games either in the isometric, octagonal, or hexagonal perspective. Tiled also allows you to organize your objects in different layers. One of the best aspects of being a game developer nowadays is that useful tools abound on the web. Conclusion.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

Tabletop Simulator allows you to script functions within the game. This allowed us to take on more complex games and automate set-up. Something as simple as scripted setup can do wonders for your game. Shuffling decks, dealing tiles, and assigning first player at a push of a button is very useful.

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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. Need help on your board game? Carla: I have a few other games in the works as well, Drapple and Observance.

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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.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?” ” A lot of the basic MOVE/BUMP dynamics were inherited from my 2019 card game, Dragon Bridge. Spellstorm At Its Heart. “Spellstorm 2.0”

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

We didn’t yet know what reasonable limits to put on such a feature, as in what’s the absolute furthest it could go without compromising other parts of the game design. Back then I couldn’t nail down what would be the most extreme (but still acceptable) options. It had to wait.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Auto-tiling in tile maps. Visual scripting is ideal for non-programmers, or for programmers exposing behaviors to game designers, artists, etc. Auto-tiling in tile maps. Godot now supports auto-tiling in TileMap, authored by Mariano Suligoy ( MarianoGNU ) and enhanced by Damar Indra. IPv6 support.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some games reward players with lives or currency boosts for watching ads. Level Design ER games have just one level that never ends. This type of level designing involves procedural generation where reusable tiles (including power-ups, obstacles, and aesthetic features) are randomly assembled.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 20, 2022

I think overall, it ends up just looking “ok” because it’s not as cohesive as I wanted, and I probably should have hired more amazing artists to do more large art and effects for the game. For the budget I had for the game ($0), I think it looks pretty good though. It was really cool to win that Game Design award!

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Well I don’t really want* to go as far as creating a full-blown in-game design system with a dedicated interactive UI like you might find in some sort of RTS or games with a vehicle design element. in order to force them to use alternatives, either from their inventory or provided by Cogmind.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds. Merge Gardens, Enhanced Edition The game's visuals have undergone numerous changes. The Merge Gardens of 2023 looks like a remake of the 2020 game. Written by Kseniia Chursina, Senior Game Designer at Belka Games

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

Matchington Mansion isn't the only game trying to take a bite out of Playrix' apple; Family Zoo (Plarium, Aug 2017), Home Design Makeover (Storm8, Feb 2018) and My Home - Design Dreams (Zentertain, Aug 2018) have been making attempts, but have all reached nothing but a fraction of what Firecraft Studios has accomplished.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Being located in Istanbul just like the original developer of Zen Match , Spyke Games must have been inspired by their success story. Thus, Tile Busters was born.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

.” People say “board games” to mean “tabletop games” the way people say “White House” to mean “US government.” ” That means card games, dice games, miniature games, and tile-based games also fall under the purview of what is frequently called “board games.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

The increase in time playing is presumably due to the pandemic’s effects on user behavior: various lockdowns cutting out other forms of entertainment along with an increase in down time (and honestly, the escapism games offer comes as respite from what was a bleak reality for most). source: Liquid & Grit.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Allowing the player too much leeway to cram in as many cities as possible onto the map leads to many, many problems, but it’s especially a problem for games which adopt one-unit-per-tile as it reduces the space for maneuvering between cities, turning the map into a permanent traffic jam.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

One of the hallmarks of good board game design is being able to create hard choices. Sounds easy enough to do, but it’s actually really tough from the designer’s perspective! Let’s talk about how you can create hard choices in your board game. Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Perfect board game pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. At the beginning of the game, a player’s objective is simple.

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