Brand Game Development

JUNE 2, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. ” Art is the most powerful marketing tool for board games and one of the most powerful tools for communicating game information. Communication is key. Key Takeaways for Game Devs.

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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. Don’t believe a dev who says “I’ve never wanted to flip the table because of some useless play-testing feedback.” Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here.

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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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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. We believe in fostering an environment that encourages open communication and diverse perspectives and ideas”, explains Dunn.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most companies you work with online have customer service based in the US to reduce the possibility of errors in communication. Another minor issue that we resolved shortly after receiving our first Tasty Humans prototype was ink oversaturation on the box and the rules. Unfortunately, this drives up cost. What did we do well?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Failure can involve missed deadlines, lost clients, scrapped prototypes, controversial public statements, or no-show events. Sampling & Prototyping: Testing games for physical usability and printing copies for reviewers. Did launch day communications breakdown? Was there a disaster in managing the community?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2021

When building the multiplayer API, two forms of network communications were introduced: RPCs to call functions remotely, and RSETs to set variables remotely. This seemed like a good idea at the time: RSETs were a fast way to prototype, and easily make your game networked… or were they? Removing RSETs.

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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. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? Well not really.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It's been a very fruitful year for Godot on the Web since the announcement of the first web editor prototype. I've recently proposed a better way than eval to communicate with JavaScript , and that will need a tentative implementation. Stay tuned for the next announcement! References. GDNative support (3.2). Threads/AudioWorklet (3.2).

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Some know exactly what they are looking for and have a great idea of how to communicate it. Others know what they want, and have no idea how to communicate it. For example, we did a lot of rapid prototyping for the Highways & Byways board on our own project together. James: The best way to actually communicate it?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

It saves you a ton of money and time on prototyping. It takes less time to create a prototype. This means you can find play-testers all over the world, which allows you to see how well your game communicates with people from different cultures or who don’t speak your language as well. It’s pretty straightforward.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2017

This is one way of communication. GDScript is an excellent language for making games and quick prototyping. "A Native script", as in "a script you're writing", is just a script, just like a GDScript file, so it doesn't have access to those classes, it also can't extend engine functionality.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. You can’t have much more than 6-9 people working on game design or else communication will get really weird, really fast. It looks like I’ll be getting the prototype game in the mail today!

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

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. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

If you’re a designer seeking a publisher, you will essentially need a solid prototype, a great sales sheet, and an awesome pitch. 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. Do you use a contract?

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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. At that point, I’m getting close to a prototype. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Assuming the product concept is fresh and original, the next step is to have a prototype made by a tooling company. There are many factors guiding where the initial prototype should be created, local in the US or overseas. Once the prototype is created, the individual has to find a factory, here or overseas.

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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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 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. When I first complete my rapid prototype, I call this Phase 1. Need help on your board game?

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

As a pioneer in the field, Silkin reminisces about the time when VR was essentially a prototype cluttered with wires and bulky headsets. Silkin’s professional trajectory mirrors the industry’s evolution, reflecting the rapidly changing landscape of VR and AR technology.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 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 Seize the Bean prototype has little sugar cube pieces to tell its story. Need help on your board game?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

There is a burgeoning community of Quest VR developers already publishing interesting Godot-based prototypes, and the stable 3.2 Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest. release should boost it. You will see the amount of uploaded and downloaded data per second, as well as an RPC counter.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

I’ve written about the five levels of communication game developers must master. Garret is a sharp guy and a good game dev. ” It’ll be aimed at letting first-time game devs know what they’re getting into with self-publishing. Brandon: Let’s say I’m a brand new board game dev.

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