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. This, too, is a good way of improving the way the board communicates.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. My ongoing development of Highways & Byways has got me thinking about the way that we, as game developers, communicate with gamers. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” ” Rules are really tricky to do right because you have to serve two purposes: balance the game and communicate clearly. Speaking of communicating clearly, let’s draw a distinction between rules and rule books.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Operational failures come from a problem in your plan’s implementation, but not necessarily the core concepts of your plan. Concept Design: The creation of initial ideas based on what hobby board gamers are currently interested in. Market Validation: Using online communities to gauge general audience interest.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2023

So our solution was to 3D scan all the things we built in order to then process them in a more conventional game dev sense.” The communication paths between characters were part of the outline but dialogue was written a little bit later along the way by Danny Wadeson.”

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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. I’m also very skeptical about the return on investment that game devs can expect from a typical con. Games need to communicate very clearly through metaphor and halfway-read rules. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Board game boxes serve not just as beautiful objects for their own sake, but also as critical means of communication between you and your potential customers. Your box communicates not just through its cover, but also its size, and the information you provide on the back. This is a really complicated concept. Source ).

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

Communication is key. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That’s why I developed a theory which I refer to as the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development. The following excerpt is from Games Speak through Mechanics, Not Rules (Dev Diary: 04/28/17).

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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 2020

As I see it, the best way to combat toxicity in online communities is to set a good example and make sure people are having their needs met. Kickstarter Community Managers Have Three Responsibilities. Kickstarter communities are loosely-defined concepts. Be open and communicative. Provide great customer service.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Pandemic blows the minds of a lot of new gamers because it’s often the game that introduces the concept of cooperative board game play. The post Pandemic: Getting People to Work Together appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

It contains many tutorials about the different features of the engine, including a step by step tutorial which should give you a good introduction to the core concepts of the engine such as nodes, scenes, instancing and scripting. Community members have produced a great number of video tutorials for Godot 2.1,

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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. This is unusual for most game devs, I think. Brandon: How I imagine teams as a solo dev. Communication in a Team.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 13, 2019

Everything can be scrapped at a moment’s notice – mechanics, rules, art, and even basic core concepts. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Communication is key when doing this, and often clients – myself included sometimes – can only say “make it pop.”

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 2, 2017

5 Concepts. This guide is split up into 5 concepts: Warehousing your inventory Shipping from your manufacturer to your warehouse Dealing with customs Fulfilling from the warehouse Customers and customs. The post A Crash Course on Board Game Fulfillment appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Warehousing Your Inventory.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It contains many tutorials about the different features of the engine, including a step by step tutorial which should give you a good introduction to the core concepts of the engine such as nodes, scenes, instancing and scripting. Community members have produced a great number of video tutorials for Godot 3.0,

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

I’ve mentioned this before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev and A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion. Branding is a nebulous concept that makes people think of logos and company names. Communities work in the same way. Know exactly who you’re trying to appeal to. No, no, no.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

Twitter and Facebook are based on language, which tends to mean English speakers communicate with other English speakers almost exclusively. It may gain a lot of followers, but your leads will probably be bad and the whole concept is deceptive. Last but not least, you can always buy Instagram followers.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

That concept had been floating around the studio since 2017. After launching Jumplight Odyssey in August of 2023 the studio failed to secure additional funding and was forced to lay off the entire game’s dev team in November. One was an easy choice, Jumplight Odyssey. The second game was Solium Infernum.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This guide comes in six parts: Law & Contracts Setting Timelines Lines of Communication Establishing a Workflow When Things Go Wrong Parting Advice. That way I can focus on the actual project without communication obstacles. Sean: Hey guys!

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

My board game design philosophy stems from the Five Levels model, which I created and explain in depth in Five Levels of Communication through Game Development. The basic idea is that board games are a means of communication that facilitate gameplay. The core engine involves this concept plus mechanics related to virus eradication.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Whether it’s through more immersive gaming experiences, novel forms of communication, or innovative applications in fields like education, healthcare, and architecture, the possibilities are virtually endless. “VR and AR have the potential to revolutionize so many aspects of our lives,” Silkin concluded. and blockchain.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. Sean: Guidelines for writing good rules really boils down to learning the art of instruction and communication.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. I tried to contact many of the devs to ask them what the reasons were and, in most cases, they were not technical but related to the scope of the project being difficult to manage. Many games were released, but a large amount were abandoned.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

At one point I helped King open their Berlin office, interviewing potential members of their initial dev team. I’ve been interviewing developers since 2013, talking to dozens of candidates at companies such as King, Foxglove and Yager, writing job specs for various roles, and providing hiring decisions. How would you approach this?"

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Targeting Attention, Interest, Desire, And Action Product Your Niche Price Process & Logistics Core Concepts of Promotion Outreach Reviews Distribution Kickstarter Advertising. This concept is called product-market fit. I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Cogmind doesn’t know anything about images, and the engine doesn’t know anything about Cogmind or its UI structure, so we’re going to need a little extra communication between the two on this point. A smarter approach should play by the engine’s rules, but will take a while longer to implement.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release. Atmosphere’ vs ‘Game-Feel’ In game development, there is also another closely related concept of ‘game-feel’. This is the power of the game atmosphere.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. The post How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Self-testing was my primary form of testing in the first and second versions of the game, when I wasn’t even sure if some of the core concepts would work. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

In fact, I’ve written about a few times: a crash course on the concepts , how to prepare for the costs , and a personal story of how hard it was to fulfill War Co. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game? The smiley face was his graphics solution.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. Sean: Rules recursion is a fascinating concept. This is game dev improv class. ” – limits.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Your theme is that critical in order to nail down some concepts first, before diving into game mechanics. Brandon: I think this is important since the more communication, the better. The post How to Find Artists for Your Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. It’s true. Getting Started with an Artist.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

WebRTC is an open standard for real time, peer-to-peer communication in the web browser. WebRTC will run on both native exports and HTML5 exports and will allow communication between native and HTML5. The signalling server doesn’t communicate any game data. Bob and Alice also need to share how exactly they will be communicating.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 10, 2022

You’re going to have one or a couple of them and they save you a lot of time because they provide an easy way for classes to communicate between each other. What most game devs do is saturate the singleton pattern. We don’t believe that is case because you’re not going to have 100 singletons in a project.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

We've already open sourced our Zelda-like ARPG demo from our Godot course as a proof-of-concept. Moving forward, one key idea is to involve you, the community, to get feedback, suggestions, great contributions and code reviews from experienced developers before we start recording tutorials. Turn-Based Combat in Godot 3.1.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

While trends are always changing, there are a few basic concepts that do not. The campaign page must communicate all critical information clearly. The post How to Create the Perfect Board Game Kickstarter Campaign Page appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. The page is about them, their desires, and how you can meet them.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy. Thanks for having me on-board the Brandon Game Dev express! Need help on your board game?

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