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

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted A Crash Course on Selling Board Games , which is my way of helping demystify that which terrifies many first-time game developers. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In his first year, he initiated a tech startup with the idea of creating a digital marketplace for African artists and facilitating global art sales. In 2021, Kunta Content won at the Africa Game Dev program, a game development training initiative sponsored by Epic MegaGrants and run by NetInfo.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week with Highways & Byways , I’ve been making little improvements to the game to make it more usable and easy-to-understand. Need help on your board game? Click here.

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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. It still needs some art and I’ll want to do lots of double-blind play-testing. Need help on your board game? Everything’s ready on my end, I just want a little more art first.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 22, 2021

Yet I want to make it absolutely clear that Kickstarter is not the only, or even necessarily the best, way for indie board game developers to self-publish their work. 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

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Let’s start with three roles: board game designer, developer, and publisher. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The first thing you need to know about designer, developer, and publisher roles is simple. The lines are blurry.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.

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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. This week, in Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game , I released Five Levels of Communication through Game Development. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

One of the most jarring experiences for new game developers is the process of getting their game reviewed. Drama aside, it truly is difficult at first because you have to identify reviewers, send prototypes, make sure your game is ready enough, cross your fingers, and hope they like it. You can keep a dev diary.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. This method may not be appropriate for every developer, every team, or every game, but it is one I like. All art is done.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 22, 2023

My employer assigned me to a small team that was building a new game out of an existing, though decommissioned, game base. The game had many constraints - minimal budget for new art assets and almost no tribal knowledge from the original team remained. That’s what preproduction is for.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 2, 2018

Much of the anxiety that new game developers experience when sending their games off to reviewers comes from the opaqueness of the process. That’s why I’ve brought in Dez Maggs of goto.game to talk about what goes into the board game review process. Need help on your board game? What do reviews involve?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What goes into printing a board game? How did we make the game specs? I talked about fulfillment already. What did we do well?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many board game designers are competent in every aspect of board game design, except for testing the premises of their ideas. Send a prototype to a play-testing service before launching a Kickstarter.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? This is unusual for most game devs, I think.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 30, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Even if you’re just making a simple board game for the first time, you have to treat any Kickstarter campaign like a business. Creating a game creation budget is relatively simple.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Around 4 years ago, I was learning how to program (in order to do natural language processing) when it suddenly dawned on me that I had probably learned enough to be able to make a game. I prototyped a little top-down Zelda clone and showed it to my friend Jeff one night while we were hanging out at his apartment. or thereabouts.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Second, what goes into making tabletop games? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Back in the heat of the summer of 2017, I wrote two articles about this A Crash Course in Games and A Crash Course in Game Development.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 27, 2024

In the 2D side scrolling horror game Terror at Oakheart players follow a diverse cast of characters that are all destined to die gruesomely at the hands of a psychotic serial killer known as Teddy. The game is developed by Californian solo dev Michael Cosio, working under the name of Tainted Pact.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 27, 2019

We live in a world where over $165 million of the tabletop game industry’s $1.5 Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In reality, both forms of distributing board games serve different purposes. billion was raised on Kickstarter.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Just go out and make a great board game for fun.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Today I'm reinstalling my development computer, so I can't do much programming. Compiling Godot takes increasingly more time, so I guess a new setup is one more way to accelerate Godot development. The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first?

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

As far back as solo developer Sandro Luiz de Paula (aka ansdor) can remember he always wanted to be a game developer. But that didn’t discourage him at all: “I wouldn’t feel comfortable working on a game if I had to just follow someone else’s ideas.” I’m more of an art director.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In fact, fulfillment often determines how big games are and how many components can be included. Many game developers think about fulfillment only after their project is complete – and you can certainly get away with it! Need help on your board game? PROFITS minus a small amount for shipping and fulfillment.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Commissioning art can be one of the most daunting parts of the game development process.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 28, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Creating board games can be an expensive affair. In fact, minimizing costs is one of the most compelling reasons to create a game and send it to a publisher instead of self-publishing. ” Maybe.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 26, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It takes a lot of time to learn and it’s an entirely separate discipline from game development or any other responsibility that you will handle on a regular basis. You do the game development.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. When I heard about this, I said to myself sardonically “sounds like game development.” Need help on your board game? Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history. Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. This is what the game looked like as a prototype.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 3, 2020

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? mm x 228.6mm) with 48 tiles 48: circular,5” x.5”

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