Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Twilight Struggle is the golden child of the board game community, having reigned at the top of the Board Game Geek’s ranking system for an extremely long time before being dethroned by Pandemic Legacy. What’s more, it takes about ten three-hour games to totally understand it. The holy grail of the board game community.

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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. 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? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

This is part one of four in the Failure Recovery series in Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With games, this involves the nature of the project itself.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

After spending a lot of time last week talking about how to make games, let’s talk about how to make them well. When it comes to games, there are a handful of truths that are very important to realize. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). As you might know, and I repeatedly keep saying, this game forms the practical part of my Master thesis. This work deals with the development and design of an open world game with a high.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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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? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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. You should be showing something you thought every detail of through, completely visualized, and hopefully already made most of. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I talked about How to Play-Test the Core Engine of Your Board Game. This is the process by which you confirm that the game you ultimately want to make is possible. Click here.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

and try your luck at winning a FREE PS5 Disc Edition, courtesy of women-lead indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. If you're not familiar with the event, Play NYC is New York City's premier gaming convention. The con kicks off on Saturday, August 7th and runs through the following day, August 8th. 3D Modeling.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted the first article in my 19-part suite on game design. It’s called How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. What does this mean for video games? So, why am I talking about DIPS?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category. The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5%

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Konstantin Mitrofanov , Chief Product Officer of Belka Games (a studio that has quietly racked up half a billion in revenues) shares practical steps on how they were able to create an organization that is both autonomous and highly successful. Or they review the assets they’ve created in a graphics editor rather than in the game itself.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. The mechanics enable a domino effect of Western support throughout the region.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. But as we all know with Playrix, their super power is not making the most outstanding games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. But unlike in previous attempts, Beatstar passed through the soft launch and began its global launch just a few days ago.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To speak to these issues we have arguably 3 of the best people in the world to talk about this: #1. 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.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 18, 2022

C++ is the most effective and widely used programming language for creating video games. It’s also the language Unreal Engine, arguably the most popular game engine in the world, uses too. In this post we’ll cover in depth the differences between C++ for software development and C++ for Unreal Engine game development.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. It’s a serious attempt to capture as much or more depth that genre commonly offers while viewing “accessibility” as a process of getting everyone to the real, expert-level game as soon as possible.

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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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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

Over the last four articles of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game , I’ve talked about a lot of things that are more complicated than you’d think. That includes the unexpected depth of the board game industry as well as the surprising variety of responsibilities which a self-publishing developer must handle.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If so, do bots have any role in this scene, either as part of the game or for training/analysis? Generally speaking, these communities are trying to make a solitary game more social, even if the games played are technically still single-player. Is it very different from the single-player game vs bots?

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Sirlin

APRIL 8, 2020

His handlers know this and have used a “hide the candidate” approach, correctly strategizing that simply allowing him to speak is the worst thing he can do. If you plan to vote for him, you should know these things. Sexual Assault Biden has credible allegations of sexual assault against him by Tara Reade, for starters. It’s obvious though.

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