Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article on how to prepare for the cost of board game fulfillment. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That means you have to fulfill your games through a third-party distributor OR YOUR CUSTOMERS MIGHT GET CHARGED EXTRA.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 21, 2022

Figuring out how to successfully scale a game is a complex problem that can take a long time to solve. During the soft launch, initial KPIs are oftentimes underwhelming – they’re not bad enough to scrap the game but also not good enough to move forward into the global launch. Tell me more about SuperPlay’s Dice Dreams.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 25, 2019

Everybody has jetpacks and Amazon is the only company in existence. What does board gaming look like in this brave new world 10 years into the future? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The year is 2029. Kickstarter will become a store.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ten years ago, Ariel Manzur and I were convinced that our future was going to be as entrepreneurs, using to our advantage the vast experience we amassed as game technology consultants during the 2000s and the tools (by that time already called Godot, as far as I remember) that we had created for use by our clients. The beginning.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail stores, it helps to set small, achievable goals. Just one board game in one board game store! Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Pitch your ridiculous companies. Sometimes your best board game selling tool is a map!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

Last week, I wrote a blog post about how the video game industry seems to be entering a sad and painful period of contraction. What do we teach to aspiring game makers? I Feel Like a Traitor I've been writing advice for making a living making indie games since 1997 or so. (My Companies go under. It's good to have dreams.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2023

What fascinates me most about the video game industry is how, as huge as its grown, it lacks the institutions of other industries. Video games are a global industry with a massive and growing fan base that sells hundreds of billions of dollars of our wares a year. Why can't the games industry have nice things?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thanks again to the organizers of the Game Industry Conference for hosting us as a pre-GIC event, as well as hosting the Godot Sprint on 14 & 15 Oct at the same venue, where engine contributors will meet to work together, discuss the roadmap for 4.0 Talk: Creating open games together with Godot | Nathan Lovato ( NathanLovato ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Note: The game doesn’t actually contain vampires. I haven't been blogging lately, because, honestly, sometimes it feels nice to be quiet for a while. Let’s talk about games. Many people can create a competent game. Brotato is a fun game in the genre when you're tired of Vampire Survivors.) What Is It?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Kickstarter – Maker and Breaker of Dreams. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sure, tabletop games made $113 million on Kickstarter in 2016. Kickstarter isn’t a magic money machine. I am writing this guide for beginners.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you really wanna go nuts, try to define what a “game” is. I mean, Hidden Object Games barely even count as an activity. And yet, we know they are games, because they have “game” in the name. things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. Dream Games was founded by two of Peak’s former Product Directors. Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted.

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