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Navigating strategic tiles amid the rising waves of Land Above Sea Below

Game Developer

Péter Takács, co-founder of Glasscannon Studio, tells us how the striking look of fall by the seaside inspired the game’s creation.

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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M Released back in 2022, the game takes its inspiration from the widely popular Piano Tiles series by Umoni Games. Tiles Hop: EDM Rush!, and one of the clear inspirations behind Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles—the Piano Tiles 3.

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Creating the Perfect Board Game Scoring System (Tasty Humans Pt. 2)

Brand Game Development

I decided that the basic gameplay was going to involve filling up a grid with tiles. What determines how well that player did given a grid is filled with different tiles? It was clear that it would have something to do with pattern-building and positioning tiles in specific arrangements. Scoring on a Full Stomach. So What Next?

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How to Add Variable Player Powers to Your Board Game (Tasty Humans Pt. 3)

Brand Game Development

In my last Designer Diary for Tasty Humans , I talked about how I approached scoring based on the arrangement of tiles in each of the monster’s stomachs. The Leader Tiles provided a lot of variety in the tactical decisions while trying to maximize your score. In Tasty Humans, you never simply play a single tile.

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Job Opening

Grumpy Gamer

I'm looking for a great 2D pixel tile artist. You need to have experience building tiles sheets for a tile-based game, I would prefer it if you've worked on a released game, but if haven't and your art is just a hobby and you're really good, that's OK. Need to be up on the "state of the art" in terms of pixel tile based games.

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Job Opening

Grumpy Gamer

I’m looking for a great 2D pixel tile artist. You need to have experience building tiles sheets for a tile-based game, I would prefer it if you’ve worked on a released game, but if haven’t and your art is just a hobby and you’re really good, that’s OK. Think of it as a puzzle. Must love pixel art.

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Tiles editor progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Two months have passed since my last progress report on the tiles editor rework. tiles editor series: Tiles editor progress report #1. you are here) Tiles editor progress report #2. Tiles editor progress report #3. Tiles editor progress report #4. Tiles editor progress report #5. Here are the news.

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