The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. You can download Godot here – [link] Click the link to Download the 4.x x version(at the time of writing that is 4.1.3) Unzip the folder and click on the program.exe(it should be something like “Godot_v4.1.3-stable_mono_win64.exe”)

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Point and Click Texture Mesh Tile 104

Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” A lot of people obsess over CPC (cost per click) or impressions (number of ad views). What’s important about all the metrics above is that you want to watch the amount of revenue your ads are bringing in, not necessarily the cost per click. Eat villagers.

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Advertising Point and Click Games Media 130

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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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 40

The Knights of Unity

AUGUST 26, 2021

What we usually need is to find the path to the selected point, avoiding all obstacles. It should also be the shortest path, because characters often have limited movement or action points to spend in their turn. . The area around the cat was split into square tiles. We need to somehow compute a value for each considered tile.

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Tile Point and Click Writing Games 52

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.

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Tile Point and Click Asset Scripting 52

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

ALSO earn the most points by the end of the game. The cards are projects, which act as event cards you can play to get points and try to terraform Mars. At that point, the “Production Phase” begins. Like Marrying Mr. Darcy, there are multiple ways to earn points. Ok, enough chit chat. Let’s roll out and explore Mars!

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Point and Click Games Concepts Mechanics 130

The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. If you want to copy code, click the button in the corner of any snippet Toggle RAW Code. Probably the best option for multi-line comments is to write all the lines, then select all of them and right-click on the text and choose toggle comments.

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Tile Scripting Point and Click Code 52