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Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun

Brand Game Development

The concept is simple: through gamification, you take the elements we associate with games – point scoring, competition, rules – and apply them to something else. Businesses have fallen in love with this concept because they’ve found that gamification works wonders for motivating people.

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Theme vs. Mechanics

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Theme and mechanics are inseparable parts of board games as a whole. Now that we’ve accepted that theme and mechanics are imaginary, abstract concepts, let’s put them to use.

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When it comes to copy writing (for press and pitches) forget the fluff and start to BLUF

PreMortem.Games

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. For any e-mail relating to sales, pitching, or decision-making, try using the concepts of BLUF.

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7 Lessons from Monopoly for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Monopoly is a bad game, but have a little respect. Watch your playtesters’ reactions.

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Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

Radiator Blog

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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3 Signs It’s Time to Quit Working a Board Game Design Idea

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. If you don’t consistently work to improve, you won’t make the game you want to make. Now look, some parts of game design – like playtesting or accessibility testing – can be tedious.

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How to Make Board Game Rules

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With this in mind, let’s talk about how exactly you can make board game rules. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.”

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