Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

Monopoly: it’s one of the oldest board games in the store. It’s one of the top 10 best-selling board games. It’s also a terrible board game. There’s a good chance I offended you with that last statement, but it’s important. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 4, 2021

After talking her family, to break the eerie silence of a just-ended video call, I said, “you want to pull out the old Nintendo 64?” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Seeing Your Childhood Games with Older Eyes.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today’s post is the last of my “Top 5 Games” series. If you haven’t noticed, the game Pandemic pulled a Jumanji and now we’re living it. But I decided that I would be remiss if I did not include it, as it was the first modern board game and it really reignited my love for board games.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 25, 2020

Nothing will be unchanged, including board games. Yes, the coronavirus will change board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Board games. Solo and 2-player games are going to be massive.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 14, 2019

Santorini is a fantastic board game that came out about two years ago. In its heart, it’s an abstract strategy game that could have come from antiquity. It has been given the modern board game polish, though, with adorably cutesy art of Greek gods, and an incredibly photogenic set of stackable plastic components.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2020

Board games have been wildly successful over the last decade. In a world with abundant entertainment options, including video games, it might seem strange that a throwback hobby has done so well. Much of this success comes from the physical presence provided by board game components. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This week while working on my current board game design, a lot of things have come into focus. 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? “You may only move six spaces in a turn.”

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sagrada is one of my recent favorite board games. It is fundamentally a pretty simple game, but it has a lot of really endearing qualities. The dice are bright and pretty, as are the puzzle boards on which you build stained glass arrangements of dice. Need help on your board game? Got all that?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 12, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 1) You must build an audience before you launch a product.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Game development is a marathon. It takes at least a year, at the bare minimum, to take a board game idea and turn into a ready-to-sell product. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Lots of people make games.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 2, 2018

Having your board game reviewed for the first time can be nervewracking. It’s difficult to send your brainchild to a critic who can influence the way your game is seen when it comes time to Kickstart or publish it. Need help on your board game? How can game devs make reviewers’ lives easier?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 1995, the game formerly known as Settlers of Catan was nothing more than the obscure creation of designer Klaus Teuber. The board game market as we know it today did not exist yet. Catan was the first major hobby board game to come into existence. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Brass Birmingham ( $50.59

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Brand Game Development

JULY 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. It’s about how to use subtleties to speak to your audience when you’re creating a game.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

The concept is simple: through gamification, you take the elements we associate with games – point scoring, competition, rules – and apply them to something else. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This cycle then repeats.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I don’t want to play a game that is too intense (no offense, Dominion ), I don’t want a game that is too easy (I’ll only play Go Fish with my 3-year-old niece). Instead, I find myself somewhere in the middle when it comes time to picking out a game. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2023

The success of The Last of Us is, according to analysts, more than just a successful adaptation of a gaming franchise; it is the culmination of Sony’s gradual transition to becoming a media company. The difference in DNA helps to better understand each firm’s strategic decision-making. You can see where this is going.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 27, 2020

” That’s not a sentence you hear spoken out loud often. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. There are three ways you can build your audience for the first time. Why advertising is good. Think about it.

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Advertising Games Point and Click Fantasy 130

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A business autopsy is when you use evidence to determine why and how a project failed. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Performing a board game autopsy is scary because it requires you to look long and hard at your failures.

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Games Writing Prototyping Media 130

Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Instead of focusing directly on game development, I’ve focused on learning as much as I can about board games.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 4 Clever Ways to Market Your Board Game Online for $30.00.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

Instead of leaving you to Google and experiment on your own, I’ll share a few experiences I’ve had. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You need to open a business and treat it like a separate entity from yourself. In the U.S.,

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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Provide customer support.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Most board game mechanics will not work as well as you intend them to. Good board game developers need to know when to drop mechanics and when to refine them. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

My own recent failure to launch a board game in 2018 , Highways & Byways , is what inspired this detour from the originally planned articles. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Step 2: Make a plan to fix the failure.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

I realized that in my push to create Highways & Byways , I’ve neglected six very powerful background skills that make game developers great. Game development is about more than just game development, folks. Need help on your board game? How will you know if you’ve done a good job?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

Board game conventions are the flashiest events in board gaming. They are wonderful gathering places for board gamers. It should come as no surprise that many game creators go to conventions to pick up customers. Need help on your board game? You can buy it here now. Parting Advice.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. You just have to recognize it so it doesn’t own you. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? I want to see you build your account organically into the thousands.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 30, 2018

So what’s happening and how can we prevent you from suffering the same fate? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Any and all Kickstarter board game projects require you to act as a project manager. Make it small.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

There are so many games industry events out there to choose from. Are you looking to network with other devs or searching for advice on getting into the industry? Or maybe you want more business development and dealmaking opportunities? The event is split into two days, with the career event taking place on the second.

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Games Mobile Gaming Dev Mobile 96

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article on how to prepare for the cost of board game fulfillment. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Don’t try to fulfill your game on your own if you have more than 200 people to send to at once.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You don’t avoid things for no reason at all. You avoid them because they’re unpleasant or because you’re tired or because there’s something better. Making War Co.

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