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4 Lessons from Sagrada for Aspiring Board Game Designers

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Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Your objective is to score the most victory points. You also make sure to fill in as many spaces as possible on your board and keep as many “favor tokens” as possible by the end of the game. Take note, aspiring game designers!

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The Role of Player Behavior Analytics in Gaming

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This data includes player preferences, interactions, and in-game actions, to mention a few. By analyzing player behavior data, you can gain valuable insights that can help improve the gaming experience and player engagement and optimize game design. This enables them to modify the game to meet the players’ expectations.

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Timing is Everything in Board Game Development

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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. I’m going to talk the importance of timing when you’re developing a board game. His name is James Masino.

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How Many Blind Play-Tests Does Your Board Game *Really* Need?

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I even blind play-tested it at a game design convention. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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How to Keep the Hype Train Going After a Board Game Kickstarter

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You could also use your success to launch multiple games, building a company in the process. Alternatively, you could dedicate yourself to game design, picking up 5-10% on every game you design for different companies. The point is, Kickstarter is just the beginning. Many games come with complex worlds.

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How to Master Time (So You Can Make Games)

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Game development as a process falls into several stages, most of which take months. Game design and development. This is the process by which game ideas are crafted into working products. Making the game work isn’t necessarily the hard part. Is it social media? They include… Early Production.

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How a Failed Kickstarter Set Me Up For Success 2 Years Later

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To save you a click: it was a product made for no specific audience in mind at a price point that was unresolvably high. But honestly, basically every board game designer, corporation, musician, artist, and even employee has flopped at some point. But it was still raw then.

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