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Creating the Perfect Board Game Scoring System (Tasty Humans Pt. 2)

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Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I decided that the basic gameplay was going to involve filling up a grid with tiles. What determines how well that player did given a grid is filled with different tiles? Scoring on a Full Stomach.

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10 Elements of Good Game Design

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When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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How We Printed the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter

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Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. Need help on your board game?

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Tasty Humans: How Our Board Game Raised $20,536 on Kickstarter

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After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. 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 !

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Growing Up with Board Games: The Power of Nostalgia

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Instead, I find myself somewhere in the middle when it comes time to picking out a game. Part of this is because of my early years growing up with board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Growing Up with Board Games.

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How Much You Should Spend on Board Game Advertising

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A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game? Eat villagers.

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How to Create a Pattern Building Board Game (Tasty Humans Pt. 1)

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Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The original idea for Tasty Humans can be traced back to a single thought that I had twenty-four hours into Panjam , a 48-hour board game design contest with the theme “they tasted quite delicious.”

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