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5 Lessons I Learned at a Play-Testing Convention (Protospiel Atlanta)

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. This is the most hellish scenario in which a board game can be played.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

Do not bother with design. Don't apply design patterns or encapsulation for the sake of it. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. A common excuse for this is teamwork and many programmers working on a game. If it doesn't, don't touch it.

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How To Play-Test the Rules of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

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. Click this picture for some backstory!

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How To Design the Rules of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

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? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Click this picture for some backstory!

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8 Signs Your Game is Ready for Blind Play-Testing

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Secrets in Videogames

Keith Burgun

Before I get started, I should make it clear which context it is that I’m talking about: single player, somewhat narrative driven videogames, like RPGs or adventure games. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle.

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How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

I think a lot of the time when you end up fundraising, you typically fundraise off the back of an initial product idea or initial, hey, there's an opportunity to make a combine a match-3 and the RPG and the MMO category into that, you know, wild new type of game that. It's a hybrid game. but you can't really get to the point.

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