Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

Physics: Add one-way collision to tile-set/tile-map. TileMap: Fix infinite loop when trying to bucket-delete empty tiles. The illustration image ( full size ) is a screenshot from GOLTORUS , an open source Game of Life simulation on the surface of a torus, using Godot 3.0 Tools: Improvements to the Godot 3.0

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That means card games, dice games, miniature games, and tile-based games also fall under the purview of what is frequently called “board games.” A designer usually starts with the simplest possible prototype – often either pen and paper or on an online testing tool such as Tabletop Simulator. This is really important to know.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

5) 24h Rotating Magic Tiles Magic Tiles are special tiles in a board that trigger a unique effect. Since the July 2023 update, the Magic Tiles are present in all boards and game modes, and they rotate every 24 hours. In my opinion, Magic Tiles still seem like a tertiary mechanic with untapped potential.

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Whether that be how many hits a door can take, how many HP a character has, or the number of tiles a unit can move. We do two small simulations, that we start in the _ready() function. EXP += subAmount Test & Demo The last thing left to do is create a small demo script to test everything that we’ve done.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. While Match-3 remains the dominant force in this competition, we've seen other subgenres like Merge taking the second place, while others, like Tile Match, showed potential but ultimately fell short.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Increased scale with demand loading The demand loading library in NVIDIA OptiX is being released with a cache eviction feature, for dynamic replacement of cached tiles in order to save even more memory. Image Courtesy © 2021 Koke Nunez.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Advancing in the event involves moving across a board (1-6 spaces depending on the dice roll), where players encounter four types of tiles: Chance : Players get to pull a card that gives currencies or additional dice.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In 2019 Tycoon games, which are sub-genre of the simulation genre, grew revenue by 22%. These tools are: Pickaxes: Destroys 1 tile and makes adjacent tiles visible. Dynamites: Destroys a row of tiles and makes bottom and top rows visible. TNTs: Destroys 8 tiles around it (3x3). Effective against stones and rocks.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store. I’ve talked about how you can create a Tabletop Simulator demo for your own game before. Who Am I & What is Tabletop Simulator? Need help on your board game?

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 25, 2024

The best way to put grid lines on the ParentPanel would probably be through a texture, but we can simulate the same thing with a couple more objects. This value is based on the stretch of our tile, plus any offset. This will create a box with some shading taking up most of the right two thirds of the screen with a bit of padding.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

On paper, Hay Day Pop seems like a smart move from Supercell: it’s a puzzle game for a simulation audience with a familiar character that got a face-lift. Hay Day Pop is Fishdom meet Hay Day with a tile blast mechanic. In the first quarter of 2020 Supercell soft-launched their second title with a puzzle core - Hay Day Pop.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Without them, a 4X game suddenly becomes an aimless simulation where the players set their own goals. Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Indeed, I generally view victory conditions as a necessary evil. You are leading a new people in an old world.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25 Branches offer all of the benefits of mainline UE4.25 and UE4.26.1,

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. If you came here for gay sex, I'm sorry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. Zynga started as the champion of simulations games, but has somehow become the puzzle underdog, growing by acquisitions to tackle even larger foes.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. These moods must be compatible.

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