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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. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? We Had a Fantastic Team Dynamic.

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How to Create Video Game Atmosphere

Game Designing

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. All of this creates a more lighthearted fantasy world. We feel the desire to protect this beautiful world and the characters we meet, playing nicely with the game’s story. This is the power of the game atmosphere.

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7 x Game Industry Truths with Chris Hewish, President of Xsolla

Deconstructor of Fun

Unity’s Odyssey Drawing attention to Unity's recent communication challenges, Mishka brands it as "objectively the biggest communication blunder of the year." Insights are shared on deal structures, revenue-sharing trends, and aligning game design with the core fantasy of the IP.

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Secrets in Videogames

Keith Burgun

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them. They change everything.

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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. Sean: It definitely is a lot of projects!

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Game of Thrones Predictions from a Game Designer

Sirlin

As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left. By looking at the show from a game design standpoint, I think we see how a lot of it has to end up. Game of Throne is, on a casual viewing, a very complicated show.

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How to Find Artists for Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

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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