Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

You’re not just trying to make the greatest worker placement fantasy game…you’re trying to make a game that satisfies the emotional needs of your customers. The Internet and Social Media Made the Communities Possible. Social media allowed people from all over the world to connect around common interests.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We're heading into spooky season, and there's no better way to celebrate an eerie action-adventure game than diving into the newest issue of the Kristala game dev blog. As we move into the final quarter of 2020, our (incredibly good-lookin') dev team has been churning out new and exciting updates that we can't wait to share with you.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We eventually had to start splitting games across multiple discs (if you’ll recall, the original Final Fantasy 7 launched with 3 CDs of game data) to make them all fit, as well as technology to allow the same game to load itself into memory and remain resident while players swapped discs. ALT Game dev tends to grow to fit its environment.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 14, 2019

With a distinctive art style, you will stand out on social media. In fact, Dinosaur Island has a distinctly modern art style calculated for the social media age. You see pictures of gritty, realistic sci-fi worlds and detailed fantasy universes. It’s an effective lever for making money.

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Game Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, Lies of P, Sand Land, John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, Sonic Superstars, Mortal Kombat 1, Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria and Star Trek: Infinite will all, I hope, offer something valuable to gaming, when they are completed and released.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 27, 2020

Do you want to get web traffic, social media engagement, or emails? For example, if you’re creating a fantasy area control game, you could target people in countries that speak the language used in the game and target people whose interests include both “board games” and “fantasy books.”

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

If sci-fi and fantasy games have been successful for the last 18 months on Kickstarter, you can make your own sci-fi or fantasy game. Look at popular media for some examples: Blockbuster movie: Joseph Campbell’s “monomyth” story structure with some explosions and some famous actors.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

After a year of documenting the Highways & Byways development process through the Dev Diary, this is not the post I wanted to write. If you’re in it for money, become a sellout, make a fantasy worker placement / area control game for $19. I’m going to stop running so many social media accounts.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog! Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Let's dive in. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados! Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. Stay tuned to the Kristala dev blog—and to all our socials—to learn how you can get exclusive, behind-the-scenes access into Harold's entire, step-by-step process. Concept Art.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Wargames to understand history, fantasy to let my imagination blow, euros to exercise my brain. They have a beautifully complex media landscape rife with videos, podcasts, blogs, and forums. It’s useful to narrow down our discussion to hobby board games and to start listing specific media sources and games to look into.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

Hello, and welcome back to another issue of the Kristala game dev blog! The event kicks off August 10th and runs through the 16th (that's an entire week of bashin' on baddies and getting immersed in the fantasy world of Ailur). But first, let's dive into what the dev team has been up to over the course of the last sprint.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

If people like sci-fi or fantasy, most publishers will try to make sci-fi games, fantasy games, or both. Every publisher has different branding, a different social media presence, and a unique “voice.” The post 3 Things to Consider When Pitching to Board Game Publishers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 17, 2017

I created both for its own sake and out of a half-baked fantasy that it would make me independently wealthy. That failure stripped me of get-rich-quick fantasies and showed me very clearly that I had a lot of work to do to make War Co. I’ve titled at a couple of windmills in my early experiences as a game dev.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

For example, if you have a large social media network and you commit to publicizing your artist as much as possible to improve their career prospects, you might be able to pay them less. If you’re doing a sci-fi game, and all they’ve done is fantasy art, they might not be a good match. Key Takeways for Game Devs.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.” So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” It famously only added any crafting because the dev team saw it in UO during beta. So is FFXIV.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Brandon: That’s a lot of different projects over a lot of different forms of media. The post How to Find Artists for Your Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Sean: I have been working with artists for roughly 13 years now off and on in many different industries. Have any questions about finding artists?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

There may be something true to those statements which, I guess, is the reason why now devs have allowed the Hero to move once per match. As far as I’ve been able to tell, it has been universally received positively by players as well in social media.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

I also work with indie dev companies on a more casual level discussing challenges, goals and brainstorming solutions. This could be done through a Discord chat , Reddit, or social media. The post How to Make the Perfect Board Game Rule Book appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Are you working on rules for your game?

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