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Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish Board Games or Not?

Brand Game Development

At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game. After all, if you self-publish, you are responsible all these decisions and their results! Need help on your board game? Why Self-Publishing is Great. Why Self-Publishing Sucks.

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5 Alternatives to Kickstarter for Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

Many of you who read this blog know that I am self-publishing board game designer who uses Kickstarter as my platform of choice for funding the bulk of my projects. 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.

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How to Fight “Tired Mode” as a Game Dev

Brand Game Development

This week in Start to Finish , I wrote Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish or Not , an article dedicated to the benefits and pitfalls of self-publishing your game. No matter how clear your vision for your project, there will be some days you’ll be too tired to explain it.

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Solo developer Elwin Gorman (Hiwarp) “Everything I do comes from my heart”

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In it you guide a freshwater nymph down a river and explore all its beauty and secrets at your own pace. I love to make everything myself, using only my own or custom assets and my own shaders. I didn’t know what to study or what career path to choose. Then I started to make my own experiments.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Create an account 2. Apply today !

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Game Developer’s Guide to Amazon DocumentDB Part 1: An Overview

AWS Games

DMM GAMES is a Japanese publisher and developer of a wide variety of popular online games and here is their testimony on the values that Amazon DocumentDB has delivered for them. You can use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate your data to Amazon DocumentDB with virtually no downtime.

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How Playrix' Township Became a Billion Dollar Game

Deconstructor of Fun

They acquired 11 companies since 2018 and invested into companies like Vizor (creator of Klondike’s Adventures) and Nexters (developer of Hero Wars - the game where you probably noticed their ads, saving a hero by moving pins and solving the puzzles similar to other Playrix titles’ playable ads). What Playrix excels in optimizing the IPM.

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