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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I Making an eco-conscious game just really made sense to me.” Having a solid, realistic plan is everything.”

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How to Make Board Game Rules

Brand Game Development

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” 14 Rules for Board Game Rules.

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4 Lessons from Spirit Island for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. For that, we’ll reference the game’s Board Game Geek page. Balanced asymmetry leads to greater variety.

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4 Lessons from Root for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marquise de Cat rules the woodlands with an iron paw, forcing the woodland creatures to team up and fight back. Seem like a monster to balance? For that reason, I think asymmetry is underrated in board gaming. Really enjoyed.”

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Spotting and Dropping Bad Mechanics

Brand Game Development

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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4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Force players to balance tactics and strategy. Getting into the gameplay of Pandemic itself, you notice that the game creates all kinds of interesting decision points at every turn.

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So How Long Until My Business Just Dies? (Also, the Unity Debacle)

The Bottom Feeder

Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. I suspect in the background, developers who have lawyers on retainer are calling them.) A few devs are still salty, but life appears to go on. That are negative. Unity backs off.