Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s hard to keep secrets in the gaming industry. Once players show interest in something you've created, many game developers worldwide quickly become "inspired" by your game. So, in the never ending search for the next blue ocean, there is a new stop: Tile Match. What is and is not a Tile Match?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2016

It remains one of the most enduring, nuanced board games on shelves today. It’s the kind of game even your grandmother can learn to play (and also beat you at). Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The titles are randomized.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

The latest game from Pangea Games is launching on Kickstarter. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. After playing, I agreed.

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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. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

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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. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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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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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Have you ever dreamt of crafting your own epic game? 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. Let’s jump in!

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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. Need help on your board game? The placement of tiles is part of the core engine.

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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. The game is what you could call “old but gold”: it has been on the market since 2017, harvesting quite a few downloads over quite some time. Leveraging its extensive catalog of content, Magic Tiles 3 uses Subscriptions to drive LTV from day 0.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 10, 2019

Hardcore gamers pride themselves on mastering games with unique gameplay and complex rules. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Much of the draw of board gaming comes from the physical experience, and so much of that comes from the components.

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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”

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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? This was a small, tight, humble, simple project.

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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).

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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 ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how to find an audience for a board game. Need help on your board game? Final Thoughts.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, I find myself somewhere in the middle when it comes time to picking out a game. Part of this is because of my early years growing up with board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Growing Up with Board Games.

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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? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We needed server infrastructure to create player accounts and store their data, such as auto generated ID, device type, OS information, items in the game, and progress in the game,” says Norman Argueta, Lead Backend Engineer at Harmony Games. Its $3M investment round was led by Griffin Gaming Partners.

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Cocos

MAY 17, 2023

I am new in game development. I am trying to create Ludo game using #TiledMap. 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.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

One challenge that has haunted all Civilization games since the beginning is Infinite City Sleaze (ICS). 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Finally, we concentrated exclusively on the gaming industry. 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. 4 mobile games developers, founded mainly by former King’s employees. —

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Second, what goes into making tabletop games? Need help on your board game? 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.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

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

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I consider this to really valuable for learning game design simply because there is so much going on. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Terraforming Mars is a game where each player acts as a corporation trying to, well, terraform Mars.

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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. This allows for timely technical updates to facilitate developers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

A standout example is Hexa Sort by Lion Studios, where players place tiles to create matches. Unlike traditional match-3 games, players must stack 10 tiles before they clear the board, adding strategic depth and enhancing the player experience.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

However, one task, in particular, seems to get more attention than the rest: creating the perfect board game Kickstarter campaign page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m going somewhere with this, hear me out.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m someone who grew up playing card and board games, but I would not consider myself a hobby gamer. From Board Game Geek. Need help on your board game? Last week, I received Marrying Mr. Darcy.

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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?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 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 ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game? Eat villagers.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

First, the original data stream is segmented into 64 KB tiles, which are processed independently. This coarse-grained decomposition provides thread-level parallelism, enabling multiple tiles to be processed concurrently on multiple cores of the target processor. All threads in the SIMD group share the decompression state.

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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. Need help on your board game? Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming.

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MARCH 2, 2020

It’s a simple app on the Steam store, it costs $19.99, and it’s been an extraordinary resource for me during the development of War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Click Tile for flat pieces or Figurine for stand-up pieces.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Listen to the whole chat here: [link] Our 'AHA' moments Pixel art is easy to get started in Pixel art is a cartoony aesthetic Consistency with your pixel art is important Tilesets vs Hand crafted pixel art Getting Started With Pixel Art (17:40 - 19:11) Pixel art requires a low barrier of entry compared to other aspects of game development.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Excerpt from an e-mail I just sent to artist John: A brief history of zooming and backgrounds: We worry about how to make the game look good at all the zooms between ‘local’ and ‘galaxy map’ You ask if anything actually happens at those zooms. You make tiling vapour layers and stars/dust. It doesn’t!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). The illustration picture is from NeJ , an upcoming poetic and mysterious hand-drawn adventure game developed by Ben Lega.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

I personally have over 15 decks built at any given time to play based on the live-ops and events in the game. Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles. This means that the tile will show up 40% more often in games.

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