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How We Printed the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. So we followed this basic process for the box, boards, rules, cards, and tiles. Most companies you work with online have customer service based in the US to reduce the possibility of errors in communication.

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Tasty Humans: How Our Board Game Raised $20,536 on Kickstarter

Brand Game Development

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We were very communicative and always willing to help one another out. Need help on your board game?

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How Much You Should Spend on Board Game Manufacturing

Brand Game Development

First, when communicating with board game printers, you need to be able to create specs. When you send out specs, pay attention to the quality of their communication. This is why, for example, Tasty Humans uses punchboard and not Azul -like acrylic tiles. This article is a must-read to tell you how to do that. Final Thoughts.

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How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

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 placement of tiles is part of the core engine.

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How to Develop Mentally and Emotionally Accessible Board Games

Brand Game Development

This guide comes in three parts: Cognitive Accessibility Communicative Accessibility Emotional Accessibility. Brandon: Let’s talk about cognitive and communicative accessibility. Communicative Accessibility. Brandon: What are some ways in which games fail to achieve communicative accessibility?

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Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

open for full size) Okay so each tile actually occupies four times the usual amount of space, but what we mean here is that the cell dimensions are doubled. These speeds are in my dev build, which has a lower FPS than released versions, so I’m just looking at it for relative comparison.

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How to Make a Tabletop Simulator Demo of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

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. This is one of the most underrated marketing opportunities around for board game dev. It’s pretty straightforward. Click Import.