Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

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. Bubble Shooters also continued to decline in terms of revenue despite growth of downloads.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This change aims to address various popping issues, race conditions, and overall poor resampling behavior. Probably the biggest improvement relying on that is the new Tiles editor, which has been reimagined based on your requests and reports. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone!

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Combat, for example, needs to maintain perfect symmetry as the human interacts directly with the AI using the same pieces on the same tiles with the same rules – the more the player needs to understand the AI’s potential actions, the more important symmetry becomes. The trick is knowing where symmetry is important.

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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. Thus, Tile Busters was born. Before delving into the game and its details, it is worth noting how the metagame of Tile Busters is constructed. And pivot that they did.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Remember that no marathoner ever finished a race before sweating and huffing through their first belabored mile many months – or years – prior. ” That means card games, dice games, miniature games, and tile-based games also fall under the purview of what is frequently called “board games.” What is a game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Over time, this could also create a race to the bottom, where speed prevails and quality drops, in that world the developers with established brands and IPs start to prevail as the difference in production value shines through and captivates an audience looking for the anti-AI ad.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. Pax Pamir is perhaps that alternate version of Race – Pamir is not a bad engine-building game, it’s a good some-other-sort-of game.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

There is also an escalation in strategy as the players fill up their boards by acquiring more and more Leader tiles. Each Leader tile provides an additional goal for how to maximize the “satisfaction” of their monster. They have just a single Leader tile and their monster’s unique “personal craving.” The Race to the Finish.

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