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. prior to and during its Kickstarter campaign, but it is also my favorite rapid prototyping tool.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view! It’s been an extraordinary privilege of mine to work with Ryan Langewisch, the designer of the game as well as Tyson Mertlich, the developer who helped make the magic happen so early on. Need help on your board game? What goes into printing a board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Something clicked for me. So many of the struggles that we deal with in game development are shared by others in the industry. Game development is very demanding. Exhaustion.

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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

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

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

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

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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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. We hope it will help you advance further in the journey of 3D game development. Don’t believe it? Keep reading!

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I don’t think anybody would expect anything less from a guy who created a board game called Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Today I'm reinstalling my development computer, so I can't do much programming. Compiling Godot takes increasingly more time, so I guess a new setup is one more way to accelerate Godot development. I didn't become rich (yet :D) making games, but I learned a lot in the process. Making games is very fun, but very difficult.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

While many teams will spend much of the year working on post-IDFA transformation plans, other secular trends within the gaming and, broadly, mobile create circumstances that -- perhaps in concert with IDFA deprecation -- can provide a real opportunity to developers. Possibly, for some advertisers. Not really.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad. Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay.

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