Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve split it into five sections for your convenience: How Ben, Sarah, and Will Got Started How Working in a Team Feels The Downsides of Teamwork Communication in a Team Advice for New Game Devs. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Playtesting Games Game Design 130

Brand Game Development

JULY 14, 2017

When I talk about game design itself, I often talk about the relentless play-testing , balancing , and different levels of communication that you must master so that your game is understood and enjoyed. Need help on your board game?

Art 130

Art Dev Mechanics Game Developer 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sean: Sure! Many people were confused.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Jesse: Where to begin?

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Games Game Design Game Designer 130

Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Game designers would just be guessing. So, what can games simulate? Strangely, the best example I can think of is a game trying to recreate a situation MUCH more difficult to simulate than baseball, life as a border agent in a totalitarian country. However, Wright was not making a game in the abstract.

Simulation 77

Simulation Agent Game Design Game Designer 77

Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

You can choose to observe them while playing or elicit their feedback after the game has ended. Once the game was pretty clearly on the right track, I started testing it with friends online and offline. Blind play-testing requires that your game function well in both gameplay and communication aspects.

Point and Click 100

Point and Click Art Games Communications 100

Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do. Adjust as needed.

Art 130

Art Games Point and Click Media 130

Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

This is comprised of three different forms of communication: sharing, talking, and self-promotion. You have strike a balance. Most importantly, though I make sure people like at least ONE of the following: BoardGameGeek, Geek & Sundry, Tabletop games, Tabletop Gaming News, or board games ALONG WITH Game Development or Game Design.

Dev 130

Dev Build Advertising Games 130

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Games Balance Development 130

Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Getting any item into any game is a huge endeavour, and really hard. You need to make the asset in the style of the game. It must have purpose in the game, and stats which are balanced with other items in the game. So I can’t see a world where it is easy, or cheap, or simple to get an NFT into a variety of games.

Asset 52

Asset Technology Software Concepts 52

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Further, it has been relatively successful in both the East and the West - something that not too many games are easily able to achieve. is usually not the best way to do it.

Balance 52

Balance Content Mechanics Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. Then there's just no way in the world you can be fast and not having that strategy communicated. And how does that tie into the big vision? It's just gonna slow you down.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

Writing 130

Writing Games Mechanics Balance 130