Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The mark of a great game developer is to make great complexity and interaction come out of simple elements. Need help on your board game? Just here for Highways & Byways updates?

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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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). link] Concept Art. Welcome, beautiful creatures!

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Need help on your board game? 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.”

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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. 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

JULY 17, 2017

When it comes to games, there are a handful of truths that are very important to realize. Communication is key. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Games tell stories – whether they mean to or not. Execution is everything.

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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 intricate decors, outlandish characters and dry conversations make it feel like Wes Anderson tried his luck at game development.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how to manage a Kickstarter community. Need help on your board game? Be open and communicative.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

People love looking at board game boxes – just check out Instagram sometime. There are whole accounts dedicated to showing off board game boxes! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This is true for board games, too.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Need help on your board game? 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. Others may focus heavily on finding the cures.

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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. Would you like to?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine. Community members have produced a great number of video tutorials for Godot 2.1,

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I think I said it best in my older fulfillment guide, How To Prepare for the Cost of Board Game Fulfillment. 5 Concepts. What’s Fulfillment? That’s the beginning of understanding.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And this bold statement is not (only) marketing speak, the winner of GitHub Game Off 2017 was indeed a Godot-made game by Securas, Daemon vs Demon. The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. Community communication platforms.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Marketing is a tricky beast.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This represents an enormous opportunity for board game developers like yourself.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Game design is a notoriously imprecise science.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With Solium Infernum, Australian game developer League of Geeks has revived Vic Davis’ PC cult classic from 2009. A strategy game of politics, intrigue, and betrayal in which players take on the role of a powerful fallen Archfiend and do everything in their power to conquer the Throne of Hell.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventeenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Artwork by James Masino for my first game, War Co. Need help on your board game?

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. “Right now, the quality of games and experiences, it’s just not there.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. 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? Where in an MMORPG world, that concept is very straightforward.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. 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.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some of this goes back to the process of creating your game, getting it manufactured, and raising funds. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This concept is called product-market fit. Core Concepts of Promotion.

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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. It needs to be different.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. 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? Jesse and I will explain further.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Sean: Rules recursion is a fascinating concept.

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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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Your game cannot be broken.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the most intricate and complex parts of the board game business. 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. Need help on your board game? The smiley face was his graphics solution.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Thanks for having me on-board the Brandon Game Dev express!

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

However, one task, in particular, seems to get more attention than the rest: creating the perfect board game Kickstarter campaign page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m going somewhere with this, hear me out.

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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. We will soon have a GDNative plugin allowing game developers to easily use WebRTC in Godot via Godot’s high level networking. WebRTC will run on both native exports and HTML5 exports and will allow communication between native and HTML5.

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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. Before we start, this tutorials is for beginners as well as intermediate and advanced developers. Even more software developers will say that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. We recommend that new users start with our official Step by Step tutorial to learn the basic concepts of Godot. Download Godot 3.2

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

That includes the unexpected depth of the board game industry as well as the surprising variety of responsibilities which a self-publishing developer must handle. I’ve written about the five levels of communication game developers must master. Need help on your board game?

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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.

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