Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The ultimate goal, as with many board games, is to score the most points, which you do by building settlements and cities, having the longest road, and a couple of ancillary functions related to development cards. Need help on your board game?

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APRIL 8, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Yet if game development is truly something you love, it is worth it. The post 6 Right and Wrong Reasons to Make a Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Need help on your board game? Why do you make board games?

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Tom Francis

APRIL 10, 2019

Talking to people at GDC and Rezzed, especially people just starting in game dev, made me realise I’ve accumulated a load of non-obvious knowledge about how Steam works and how best to use it. At this point it costs me $220 to e-mail the Suspicious Developments mailing list. (I Info: wishlists matter a lot. I still do that too).

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Paladins of the West Kingdom for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. For this reason, we are going to dig into what makes this game so successful. Need help on your board game?

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Everdell for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. .” As you can imagine, this is right up the alley of many dedicated board gamers. But why exactly is that? Need help on your board game?

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Dinosaur Island for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Need help on your board game? That entails theme, components, and art.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post How to Make Board Game Rules appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Now it’s time to start tweaking board game rules. This is where board game design often becomes very tricky. Need help on your board game? Play-testing above all else!

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Root for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Need help on your board game? Clearly, they’re doing something right here. So what exactly is Root ? Not bad for a game about woodland creatures!

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JUNE 3, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Businesses have fallen in love with this concept because they’ve found that gamification works wonders for motivating people.

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MAY 20, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. A lot of board game creators ask the same question: “how do you fund your board game on Kickstarter?” ” Need help on your board game? It’s a great question. Consider all the options.

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MARCH 11, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post Don’t Just Build a Board Game, Build a Business appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Need help on your board game? Then there you would be – still be standing there with another chance to succeed.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Terraforming Mars for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. There are some really good qualities as well as some really annoying ones, and we’re going to discuss both.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Sagrada for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. It is also a smashing success of a game – so let’s talk about why that is. Photo by Eric Yurko, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Just for clarity: I’m covering the original Pandemic , not the legacy version. Photo taken by Jana Reifegerste and posted on Flickr.

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JULY 1, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This idea developed into what ultimately became the backbone for scoring in Tasty Humans. At this point in the development process, there are 30 total Leader Tiles. 2) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Need help on your board game?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 6 Reasons Escape Rooms Will Make You a Better Board Game Designer appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Handcuffed to my manager, I reached into the toilet to find a small key. Need help on your board game?

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MAY 27, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post Kickstarter vs. Retail: Distributing Your Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. We live in a world where over $165 million of the tabletop game industry’s $1.5 billion was raised on Kickstarter. So it goes.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 6, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post Do It Anyway: Make the Board Game You Want appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Product-market fit is essential and without it, financial success much harder to obtain. Just look at some of these posts I’ve been publishing lately.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post Board Gaming in 2029: Kickstarter & Cardboard 10 Years from Now appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. What does board gaming look like in this brave new world 10 years into the future? And for that matter, what happened to Kickstarter?

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post Top 10 Board Games for Christmas 2019 (and Why They’re Popular) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. ” Need help on your board game? While I typically write articles strictly for board game creators , today is a little different.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. By sharing my methods, I hope you’ll be able to develop your own. The post How to Make a Beautiful Board Game Box appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. People love looking at board game boxes – just check out Instagram sometime.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Everyone is welcome to join us on this journey to become better game developers and create meaningful projects together. Fabio Alessandrelli (Italy) is a core Godot developer and maintainer of the networking stack of the engine, among other contributions. Tomasz Chabora (Poland) is a passionate game developer and gamer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2019

From now on dev focus is on release-critical issues that would seriously hamper Godot 3.1's development build. This new release fixes various crash scenarios, as well as a performance regression in the GLES backend. We're still aiming for a release by the end of the month, so we're under a tight schedule. s usability and features.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In my game development experience, I’ve never sought out retail distribution. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Use the hive-mind to design brands. Pitch your ridiculous companies. Win a million dollar investment or crack up trying.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Even this can be a huge step for a game developer, and I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t know where to tell you to start until recently. The post How to Get Your Board Game in a Retail Store for the First Time appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Repositories: Godot's framework for VCS integration: Dev: [link]. Since Godot is gradually entering the competitive market, dominated by only a handful of fully featured engines, it is only intuitive that it should support Godot game developers with a strong version control integration from within the editor. Introduction.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You can read more about that in my article here: Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Looking to refine your board game development skills?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

What is board game development all about? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. ” So what goes into game development? Let’s break it down… Board Game Development: Game Design. Board Game Development: Game Production. Need help on your board game?

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marketing is best understood as an ongoing process that breathes itself into everything you do as a self-publishing board game developer. I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. For game developers, they’re great case studies in achieving excellence on a budget. If you take anything away from Santorini as a game developer, it should be as follows. or Less appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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MARCH 4, 2019

Many of the game developers I work with have expressed hesitation about the platform that I didn’t see in 2015 or 2016. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What does this mean for first-time game developers? appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. As you can imagine, the game devs who made the game you want to buy can’t do this alone. A little while ago, we did a post with Brandon called Board Game Fulfillment & Why it Matters on Day 1 of Game Development. Advertisement.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Both of these are active, engaged, friendly communities where board game developers and board game lovers get together to share ideas, commiserate in success, and improve upon failure. Early on, you want to make sure your community has a clear theme.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Many game developers think about fulfillment only after their project is complete – and you can certainly get away with it! But today, this guest post by Michael of Fulfillrite will explain why you should think about board game fulfillment on day 1 on game development. Need help on your board game? So, good news and bad news.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I am the developer of The Bears and The Bees and Cover Your Kingdom , published by Grandpa Beck’s games. Let’s be honest though – as any developer knows, even your friends and family won’t buy your game unless it’s truly entertaining.

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JULY 8, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I am currently developing six other more exotic boards. By sharing our experiences in the development of Tasty Humans , we hope to help you create games that you are proud of, too. 3) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Twilight Imperium for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Twilight Imperium is among the greatest board games of all time according to BoardGameGeek. Need help on your board game?

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