Brand Game Development

JULY 13, 2020

Certainly, board game designers can learn a lot from well-designed escape rooms. Exit Games by Kosmos are the closest we can get to the authentic in-person experience right now. Some of the puzzles in Exit Games, much like in real-life Escape Rooms, are devilishly hard. Exit Games find a workaround.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Escape Rooms will make you a better board game designer. This is partly because Escape Rooms are everything that board games aspire to be – complex problem-solving games that appeal to a wide audience and provide a remarkable physical experience. Board games often run the risk of having themes that feel pasted-on.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

.” Besides, when we – as gamers and game developers – put aside our frustration for a moment, we can actually see Monopoly for what it is: a solid concept with bad execution. There are a lot of questionable game design decisions that, if corrected, could have made for a fantastic game.

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Game Wisdom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Learning About Game Design in the Classroom Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this perceptive podcast, I’m talking with Jeremy Yanofsky who hosts the Engage Show to discuss what does teaching game design and using games in the classroom look like today.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 14, 2019

The rules could not possibly be simpler, and yet the strategy of the game gets pretty heady. There are lots of reasons I love, love, love this game. For the purposes of this article, though, we’ll be discussing four lessons for board game designers to take away from it. Physical game presence counts for a lot.

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Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2023

For anyone with an interest in game design, Polaris' developer summit has different articles covering various aspects of design development.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Getting a promotion in the game industry usually requires the designer to take two steps. This means taking on more difficult responsibilities and tasks, the sort that the mid or senior level devs are doing. In my experience, most promotions in a game design career don't happen internally.

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Game Developer

APRIL 10, 2023

With his Alice: Asylum pitch rejected by Electronic Arts, game designer American McGee is leaving the game industry entirely behind.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

By using my own work as an example, I hope you can read their original write-up with a concrete context and use their lessons to make an incredible game of your own. The post 10 Elements of Good Game Design appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

Chance elements are valuable in game design because they keep games from being “solved” in the same way that chess – a perfect information, zero luck game – ultimately was. Take note, aspiring game designers! This is arguably one of the worst feelings that a game can give you.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

No matter how you feel about it, there is a lot that new board game designers can learn from it. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In my opinion, pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

By playing it and studying it, we can learn more about effectively implementing asymmetrical game design. It’s also great at teaching us how to use theme to introduce gamers to much grittier games than they would normally play. Not bad for a game about woodland creatures!

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 27, 2020

Aspiring board game designers should take note of how the name and the theme tear down barriers that would otherwise keep would-be-gamers out of gaming. The post 4 Lessons from Quacks of Quedlinburg for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

The interesting decision points around balancing short-term and long-term needs and the manageable chance-driven events are worth study by all aspiring game designers. Learn from Pandemic and you’ll make a game people never get sick of.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

For modern game designers, my recommendation is that even in competitive games, you find opportunities to encourage players to form alliances. This isn’t always doable, but when it is, it creates a whole new layer to the game. A lot of games have come and gone and Catan endures.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Then they create a game that meets those demands, in short, assuring product-market fit. If you’re a board game designer looking to make a financially successful game, one good place to start is by researching the market. Many game designers see theme as having two primary objectives. Draw players in.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Is doing game design professionally what you really want, or would doing game design as an amateur hobbyist be enough? The second major question you need to ask yourself is "Do I really need to go to school to study game design?" I'll tell you now that I never went to school for game design.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I am pleased to say that it is an absolutely fantastic game that’s worth purchasing. I consider this to really valuable for learning game design simply because there is so much going on. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The post 4 Lessons from Everdell for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. And it has just the right amount of gimmickry to make you pay attention. Not bad for a civilization of woodland creatures!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 27, 2024

AEGIS calls this the first developer union contract at a major US games firm. It will provide various protections for the union unit across company divisions, including game design, translation, and marketing. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

Part of 2024's cohort is Rafif Kalantan, an emerging narrative and game designer from Saudi Arabia who spoke to GamesIndustry.biz about her journey from studying computer science to winning the 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Award for her puzzle game Eros Xavier's Love Solutions.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

Lastly, the variable player powers are balanced in such a way that the game stays fresh for a long time! The post 4 Lessons from Spirit Island for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Its art, components, and use of late 80s / early 90s nostalgia made the game stand out in a noisy world. From its success, we can all learn how to create games with enticing themes. The post 4 Lessons from Dinosaur Island for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Among the presentations in last month's Game Devs of Color Expo was Achimostawinan Games' talk on Growing Indigenous Worlds in Games, which explored the themes of reappropriation and combating stereotypes of creative works for Indigenous people.

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DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Until next time, happy dev'ing! Check us out on social media [link] [link] [link] Remember, we host live develogy livecasts every Tuesday at 10pm BST on our YouTube channel. You can catch all the recordings, including this episode, in the Devology Livecast course - it's free to join, and also on our YouTube Channel.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2023

You are correct in that it is possible to transfer that body of knowledge over to the other gaming industry that is casino machines. Beyond that, here are some other roles that game design skills could transfer to. Tabletop, board, or card game design. It's still game design, just not in video games.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Things were getting serious three years later when Ryding decided to quit his job as a software engineer and work full time as a game developer. One of my close friends, Ches Denison, joined me working 5-10 hours a week as a playtester, game designer, and just a general jack-of-all-trades-guy.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

One major guiding principle in game design is "make it easy to do things right and hard to do things wrong". It's a lot easier to ensure the saved game is in a good state under controlled situations, such as with established save points and automatic saves.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

When you have the basic design written down, it is easier to think twice and calm down the enthusiasm for ideas that would revolutionize your game… and probably would require to turn the code upside down. The chances are that the team will consist of people from different specialities of the game dev industry.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 31, 2017

Also, the game doesn’t have a defined win condition yet. Some game designers – and I count myself among them – consider to be win conditions pretty important to games. I’ve pushed a rough version of the game out to Tabletop Simulator for my use only.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

AI affects game design The project’s trajectory shifted with the integration of AI tools. “To produce a point and click game, and to document the creation of a partly AI-generated game.” are answered in his regularly updated dev blog. It became a public AI research project.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

As I mentioned, this being my first game, I was learning not only how to game develop but also the language of game design. I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.” Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Evaluating items is a skill that we game designers must cultivate in players so they can distinguish good items from bad. This is another element of cultivating player skill through intentional design. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As I mentioned, this being my first game, I was learning not only how to game develop but also the language of game design. I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.” Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2023

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ. If Hasbro doesn’t offer something of value for the users to consider in exchange for the proposed changes, it’s obvious that the users would disapprove.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2023

The game industry really lacks a strongly defined central lexicon for terminology. I’ve held many different titles over the course of my career - scripter, technical designer, system designer, combat designer, game designer, gameplay engineer/programmer, client engineer/programmer, and software engineer/programmer.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A community manager and new game designer. A game filled with cute armoured babies on a brave mission to save their daycare from a goblin invasion. African Game Dev Prototype Fund They say the best leaders lead by example. This knowledge helps me create architectural designs in games.

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