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A Little Something

Grumpy Gamer

Side note: Tiled is a great tile editor and come a long way since I first used it many years ago. I posted some previous screenshots of this prototype, but since then I've ripped out all the tile graphics and started over with a much simpler (almost icon) art style. A little something I've been messing around with.

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A Little Something

Grumpy Gamer

Side note: Tiled is a great tile editor and come a long way since I first used it many years ago. I posted some previous screenshots of this prototype, but since then I’ve ripped out all the tile graphics and started over with a much simpler (almost icon) art style.

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Ascent of Ashes dev switches to Godot halfway development “Not as chaotic as Unity”

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Without it, rendering the 800.000 tiles that compromise the game map became problematic, so the team had to spend a week on optimizing that. Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Still, the switch didnt occur without its fair share of issues.

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How We Printed the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. So we followed this basic process for the box, boards, rules, cards, and tiles. Another minor issue that we resolved shortly after receiving our first Tasty Humans prototype was ink oversaturation on the box and the rules.

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How to Make a Tabletop Simulator Demo of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

It saves you a ton of money and time on prototyping. It takes less time to create a prototype. Because high-quality physical prototypes can be expensive, Tabletop Simulator gives you the ability to show potential fans what your game is all about without committing to expensive physical prototypes. Click Import.

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Old World Designer Notes #3: One Unit per Tile

Designer Notes

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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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. somewhere in the comments.

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