PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

So, a fantasy setting instead of everyday environments would provide the most room to be creative without being too shackled to anything too specific.” He’s also planning the overall game design. The game design process in this project mainly involved designing the rudimentary features for our level editor”, he explains.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

The latest game from Pangea Games is launching on Kickstarter. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. Need help on your board game? It would have been a crime to leave this game unpublished.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. Combining the world of ice hockey with a roguelite may seem like an odd match, but for game designer Hugo Julien and his fellow co-founders Jean-Nicolas and Mathieu Fortin, it was a natural choice.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We I think that is clear in the language of the game and players seem to appreciate the humor.” Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We I think that is clear in the language of the game and players seem to appreciate the humor.” Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

These titles earned – and keep – respect in the hobby gaming community. Like with all things in board game design, there is no linear path. You meander through the game design process, iterating and tweaking your work until you’re happy with it. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

It’s quarantine o’clock and I’m responding to comments that I got on a post I wrote a few weeks ago: What confuses you about board game development ? This time, I’m going to talk about pitching to board game publishers. Need help on your board game? I can help.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to game development, visuals do matter. Developing high-quality and impressive graphics is an essential step that requires a great deal of time, effort, and skill. However, when choosing a method for the game’s visual presentation, many people reach a dead end, and numerous questions arise. Fantasy Realism.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. To dig a solid fantasy out of that ‘omelette’, we found ourselves essentially relying on a good ol’ helping of subtractive design.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Yet the process, so heavy on rejection, has left many game designers heartbroken. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Board game publishers have to sort good from bad. Most people already get this.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Insights are shared on deal structures, revenue-sharing trends, and aligning game design with the core fantasy of the IP. Regardless of the direction (from movie/show to game or vice versa), understanding the core fantasy or value proposition of the IP is crucial.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Jamey Stegmaier made a civilization game.

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Fresh from raising $13 million in funding, Avalan Corp is beginning to outline its vision for Web3 game development, most particularly the company’s belief in creating development tools that aid world and asset creation, as well as interoperability between games. “Think about a Marvel Universe, for instance.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Then, serendipitously, one by one, the obstacles toward the modern board gaming landscape fell away. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Why the Question “Why Board Games are So Popular” Matters to You, the Developer.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The board game industry is growing up. The board game industry is beginning to mature. The massive influx of new games created by eager hopefuls with Kickstarter ambitions continues to grow.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

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 ! Need help on your board game? Ryan wanted to see his design come to life.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. In this article, we’ll explore the evolving relationship between art production and AI, discussing their potential impact on the gaming industry. Game testing , thankfully, can now be automated with the help of AI.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Paths: World of Adia , a fantasy themed tabletop RPG.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Preferred Choice for AAA games Unreal Engine is well-documented and has great tools for the game development discipline that reduce the manual and resource-intensive tasks in game development. Its advanced 3D creation tools empower developers to build photoreal visuals for immersive experiences.

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iHobo

JULY 5, 2023

But precisely because we live in a world of 'stories everywhere', we need to be careful to understand how games engage with narrative. Games love to fool the player into believing that they have control and influence in the game world (which they do - but only of a much narrower kind that we tend to recognise).

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s why this game genre is called cozy games or farming genre. It’s about life and breathing that life into that game. You’re pretty much living a 2nd life in a fantasy world. I want to compare my game to stardew valley since I get criticize for being a stardew valley copycat.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them. They change everything.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When I created this blog, I created it to help see creators through the entire game development process. I have an incredibly polite and intelligent Discord server of over 1,100 game developers.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

I remember how hard it was to learn on my own, and I’ve made it my mission to guide you through the whole process the way I wish I was when I created my first game, War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When I started, I knew nothing.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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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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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. So this post will focus on my read of the general game design and player experience.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Recently, we’ve been publishing a lot of content helping non-programmers learn how to make sci-fi video games without having to know how to code. However, we thought we’d take a short break from our game development tutorials and instead focus a couple of posts on game playing instead. Want to Make Video Games?

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

Right now, in addition to my podcasts, I have three main game development projects in the works. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Everyone, even non-patrons, get my main podcast about game design for free. But there is surprisingly much to the game.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You have a pretty solid amount of influence as the game developer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Ilaria Cislaghi is a game designer working for simedis AG , a company specialised in virtual reality medical simulation. In her free time, she enjoys developing games about Antarctica with Godot. Fabio Alessandrelli is a core Godot developer and maintainer of the networking stack of the engine, among other contributions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Weapon and armor design in Lost Ark is often extremely exaggerated and luxurious. It can be seen from the hodge-podge of scene design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya).

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Despite being a casual game, Cookie Run: Kingdom published a 200-page art collection with detailed backstories, characters, and designs, showing the developer’s ambition of building its own universe. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics?

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