Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Great art is one of the most critical parts of a board game. As game developers, we have only a handful of tools at our disposal to help teach players what a game is about and how to play it. .”

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. .”

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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.

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Prototyping Playtesting Games Game Design 130

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What goes into printing a board game? How did we make the game specs? I talked about fulfillment already.

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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. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Commissioning art can be one of the most daunting parts of the game development process.

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Communications Games Prototyping Art 130

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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Playtesting Games Advertising Prototyping 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. When I heard about this, I said to myself sardonically “sounds like game development.” Need help on your board game? Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Games Game Design Game Designer Dev 130

Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1. It saves you a ton of money and time on prototyping.

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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? At that point, I’m getting close to a prototype.

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Mechanics Games Game Design Game Designer 130

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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Art Games Development Prototyping 130

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.

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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? Click this picture for some backstory! Public blind play tests.

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Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Assuming the product concept is fresh and original, the next step is to have a prototype made by a tooling company. Once the prototype is created, the individual has to find a factory, here or overseas.

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Games Concepts Prototyping Software 130

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? How do you test game mechanics?

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Games Balance Development 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Do not eat!

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Mechanics Art Games Puzzle 130

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. There is a burgeoning community of Quest VR developers already publishing interesting Godot-based prototypes, and the stable 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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