Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Last week , I shared with you games I played during my formative years, and how those games made an impact on my taste in boardgames as an adult. I wasn’t expecting to discover the impact those childhood games made on my preferences as an adult. Need help on your board game? So…game plan change!

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AWS Games

APRIL 3, 2024

The program is now at an inflection point. To substantially scale the program over the next few years, the center has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage generative AI and pixel streaming technology – the backbone of cloud gaming – to make Charisma easier for others to adopt and use.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Game development is a marathon. It takes at least a year, at the bare minimum, to take a board game idea and turn into a ready-to-sell product. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Lots of people make games. Most people quit.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This week with Highways & Byways , I’ve been making little improvements to the game to make it more usable and easy-to-understand. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Kickstarter campaigns are rapidly becoming the primary means of sales for many board game creators. Even if you can’t get your game into physical stores, you can always set up shop online, whether through Amazon or through your own site. Need help on your board game? Click Products. Then click on Checkout.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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. Not games writing mind you, but copy writing – for pitches, store pages, press releases, & everything else.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

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?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. In fact, I’m not even having to spend a lot of money either – I racked up a lot of points on my travel card. Need help on your board game? It’s not doable.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. This method may not be appropriate for every developer, every team, or every game, but it is one I like.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. In fact, I’ve been thinking this week that in the absence of major game development or logistics challenges, this will be the defining challenge of this Kickstarter campaign.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sagrada is one of my recent favorite board games. It is fundamentally a pretty simple game, but it has a lot of really endearing qualities. It’s ultimately a puzzle game, but a very attractive one with some subtle elements that arise from it being a nearly perfect information game where players draw from the same draft pool.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Over the last couple of weeks of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher , I’ve talked about some of the strange goings-on I’ve noticed in the board game industry. Today, we’re going to talk about the tabletop gaming news cycle, and why it is – frankly – just plain weird.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. ” Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 21, 2017

This is not a post about what you need to do, think, or spend to make a game, nor is it a post about board games themselves. This is a post about the players in a much bigger game: the board game industry itself. Need help on your board game? Find games like yours. Find people who follow games like yours.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today’s post is the last of my “Top 5 Games” series. If you haven’t noticed, the game Pandemic pulled a Jumanji and now we’re living it. But I decided that I would be remiss if I did not include it, as it was the first modern board game and it really reignited my love for board games. Gameplay Overview.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. The board game review process is one of the most important parts of game development. Need help on your board game? Why are board game reviews important?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. It’s about how to use subtleties to speak to your audience when you’re creating a game.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 27, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Whether you’re just spreading the word about one game or whether you’re building a whole long-lasting business from scratch, you should consider advertising as part of a larger marketing plan.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Everything would be just right if you could just hit that goal… Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. After it, you can hope to passively sell your game and reap the rewards in the form of sales. That’s just not the case.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 4, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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. Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view! They were the creative force behind the game, and really, the soul of it.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

Session-based multiplayer games are a popular form of online game, as they provide players with a quick, engaging experience that they can jump into at any time. However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 30, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Launching a board game on Kickstarter is an extremely nerve-wracking experience. Need help on your board game? What does all this mean for the game dev?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 9, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. The “Highway” designation is my way of saying “I’m ready to play-test the game.”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 6, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Never get your heart set on one game. (I

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Brand Game Development

MAY 19, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Still, Tabletop Simulator is just one form of digital play testing for board games.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 18, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just this last week, a lot of things finally clicked. Just this last week, a lot of things finally clicked. In order to play with us, you will need a Steam game called Tabletop Simulator.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 16, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Need help on your board game? I played two games with my parents.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In our Buildbox tutorial series, we’ll show you how you can build amazing 2D and 3D games without having to know how to code. . Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. .

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Launching a board game Kickstarter requires the coordination of an enormous amount of effort, time, and talent. For that reason, I encourage people to see success more as a holistic process than as a particular moment when things click. Need help on your board game? Bonus points if you use your personal page as well).

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Marketing is a tricky beast.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

As promised, to celebrate the release of the iOS and Google Play version of Game Dev Tycoon, we’ve now updated the Desktop versions of the game. Try your luck surviving the harsh realities of piracy in this new ultra-hard game mode in which you have to invent DRM and sell company shares to survive. Women in Tech.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I've been working continuously making indie video games longer than, let's say, anyone. (The GDC free lunch was lousy, but hey, it was free.) So let's get to it: There are too many indie games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

As usual, this GodotCon will follow the FOSDEM which also takes place in Brussels, and where we'll have a Godot stand as well as a few Godot-related talks in the Game Development devroom which some of us co-organize. It showcases the idea of the game. Try 3D adventure games! Are you tired of 2D pixel art platformers?

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