The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

The big, fun news in the gaming world recently was that it looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short, owned by Hasbro) was going to drastically change the Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons. It's a really incomprehensible, inside-baseball story, but it's also really interesting if you're into games or business.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 12, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 1) You must build an audience before you launch a product. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Within the board game community, there is no site that has shaken up the industry more than Kickstarter. While BoardGameGeek has been around for almost 17 years and remains the unquestioned mecca of the board game community, nothing has had more influence on board games recently than Kickstarter.

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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. If you are interested in play-testing Highways & Byways , click here to join the Facebook group so you can get notified of the play-testing events. It does exactly what you’d expect it to.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 27, 2023

It’s been a few months since I wrote about Spellstorm, my new deckbuilding card game. As I wrote about a few months ago , the game took a huge turn somewhere around December, and I am so glad it did. So today, I want to talk about those asymmetric characters and what we’ve been trying out with them. Hi everyone!

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This time we’ll be splitting things up a little different than the original lesson, and I wanted to extend a couple things a little bit. Once you’ve added an action you can click the plus sign next to the action name to add a keybinding to it, and remember that the scroll wheel is counted as a button.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

What & Why Hi, I’m William Allen aka 7thSage, you may notice I’m not the regular author here, though you may have seen me in the comment section here and on the forum, commenting on tweaks or fixes in the Tactics tutorial here on the site. So what brings me here? About Me Who am I?

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Good ideas do come spontaneously, albeit inspired by random discussions among players, reactions to various situations in game, even playing other games and consuming various non-game media. The results since then have been great, but what comes next? Lots and lots of fun. Sample ASCII art from among the 100 new items.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the first part , I went on about the lack of family in video games and the danger of paying attention to critics. Now I'll talk about the actual game. The Plot of It Takes Two It Takes Two tells the story of an unhappily married couple and their child who wants to keep them together. This is a really fun game.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

This marks the beginning of what will be the most significant undertaking in Cogmind’s UI development history: making everything bigger. We didn’t yet know what reasonable limits to put on such a feature, as in what’s the absolute furthest it could go without compromising other parts of the game design.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You might recognize Quince and Onimaru from my other games, but the Law hero, Bigby Hayes, is new in Codex. Don’t let that fool you though, the Law spec is overall a control deck and when the pieces come together, it can really lock you down. As a control spec, your first goal with Law is just to survive the early game.

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

P andante 2nd Edition The new Flash Duel These games were part of my fourth Kickstarter and the rewards have now all been delivered to backers—a MONTH ahead of schedule. Anyway, you can now get your hands on these games if you missed the kickstarter. Four out of four kickstarters on time!

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The neutral cards are generally simpler than the cards of other factions because they are meant as an intro to the game. The neutral cards are generally simpler than the cards of other factions because they are meant as an intro to the game. The Renegades are the neutral faction in Codex. He is well-meaning though, and has a big heart.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

They can protect Torken if he wants to turtle up and go for a late-game plan. They can patrol in the Scavenger slot to give him 1 gold when they die (making them cost a total of 0 gold overall), or they can patrol in the Technician slot to give him a card (letting him basically buy a card for 1 gold AND stop an attack in the process).

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

He’s surrounded by a creeping death, and even being near him makes most beings uneasy. If it’s a hero, you don’t even need an extra card to heal: all heroes remove all damage on themselves whenever they reach their next level band (so they’ll always heal twice between level 1 and max level).

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Pasternaak is a historian who wants to record the Past as well as preserve it. Pasternaak herself is slipping away into the Past, as we can see from her hero card’s first ability: The fading ability means that she arrives with 4 time runes, you remove one each upkeep, and if you remove the last then she dies.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 5, 2021

Welcome to the inaugural post of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher! In this series, I’ll be talking about aspects of board game publishing you don’t normally think about. Why board game publishing companies do things that seem weird from the outside?

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

Did you hear the news? Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." Which game is it though: Fantasy Strike or Rising Thunder? That's exciting stuff.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. It might remind you of kickstarter, but it's really not like that at all. You can get to my Patreon here. Also, you shouldn't be "trying out a new idea" there. Instead.it's fun.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. It’s so big that we’ve split it up into different sections to make it easier for you to navigate. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Are you excited?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail, you’ve probably heard the advice “go to cons.” ” But what exactly do you do at board game conventions? Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Check it out here !

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Commissioning art can be one of the most daunting parts of the game development process.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Board game fulfillment is really complex. In fact, fulfillment often determines how big games are and how many components can be included. Many game developers think about fulfillment only after their project is complete – and you can certainly get away with it! Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Can you believe that we are in NOVEMBER? But with November comes Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hannukah, and New Years, so in my family that means the season of family games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Because yup, you guessed it.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 17, 2017

I didn’t mean to be a board game developer, but everything I did to get here was on purpose. As a child, I was intensely interested in board games and video games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are the games that I’ve worked on. Spoiler alert: Civilization 3 and 4 are going to come up a lot in the presentation… I also do a podcast where I interview game designers about why they make games, so check it out if you have time for 4-hour interviews. somewhere in the comments.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. You won’t see many curly braces or semi-colons. And if you have a side in the war of spaces vs tabs, I’m sorry to say, or perhaps happy to say depending on the side you’ve chosen, but Gdscript requires Tabs.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

I expect that this is probably the one a lot of you have been waiting for. Some of you may be expecting us to go down the road of A*(read as A Star), instead we’ll be using a simpler, and in this case faster, method. It’s me 7thSage again. I’m back again for part 5. Pathfinding. We have a few options.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS “ The Next Generation ” makes a bold move as a title for the first episode of the new third season as it alludes not only to the series that gave us Picard, Riker, and Crusher but also hints at the events that are coming down the proverbial pike. We just don’t know what quite yet. Shaw is livid with her.

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Tom Francis

JULY 29, 2021

Note: this was written around the time Void Bastards was released, but languished in my Drafts for years because I’d planned to make it longer. In a roguelike context, I’m using ‘progression’ to mean anything persistent you unlock or earn – how the outcome of one life can potentially affect those that come after.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

Framed as almost more like a sport / abstract strategy game, and therefore light on narrative. Framed as almost more like a sport / abstract strategy game, and therefore light on narrative. Also along the same lines, you don’t get metagame bonuses that you can take into matches (i.e.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. But not really.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Starting by telling you about the art may seem superficial, and maybe it is, but the art in this game is so notable—such a breakthrough—that I think it deserves special attention. Guilty Gear Xrd is far and away the #1 best use of 3D that looks like 2D I have ever seen in a video game. Artwork Gameplay is what should matter.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam ) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley / Animal Crossing inspired farm life sim about scraping by, in a decaying rural truckstop town with bored depressed locals you gradually befriend (or ignore). How are you gonna do it? I strongly recommend playing it first.

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