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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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Complete 2D Game Assets Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

including tiles and tilemaps, character sprites, special effects as well as sound audio assets as well. GameFromScratch.com Complete 2D Game Assets Humble Bundle The Complete 2D Game Assets Humble Bundle is now available. This bundle contains a huge number of game assets for creating 2D games (RPG, top down, platformers, etc.)

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