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How to Work in a Team in the Board Game Industry

Brand Game Development

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation over DMs in Discord. I’ll also be writing responses for Will. Sarah: It was also in 2013 that we met Ben and were playtesters for his game Tower , which he launched on Kickstarter early in 2014. I initially reached out to Sarah, who I know through Twitter.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish Board Games or Not?

Brand Game Development

You are not forced to make any edits to your work for any reason. You do the game development and playtesting. You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. Why Self-Publishing is Great. You go find the art.

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Bringing it Together – The Board Game as a Project

Brand Game Development

Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation via Facebook Messenger. Every iteration of each game has to be created somehow and there are A LOT of iterations – usually a new one after each playtest, especially in the beginning. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

You can find edited highlights of each talk below, and videos of each session – just hit play to start watching. Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Anything that makes a player feels a sense of ownership is good.

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What to Expect When You’re Making a Board Game: Time, Money, and Effort

Brand Game Development

That’s why I hit him up on Discord with the following message: I’m going to be writing a post soon called “Let’s Set Expectations: Time, Money, Effort.” What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation over DMs in Discord. Garret is a sharp guy and a good game dev. Who is Garret?

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. This marks its true public release, with finished graphics, gameplay, tuning, more sex, and finally an ending. L of semen for each one.

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