Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Heads up: this fulfillment article assumes you live in the USA. Fulfillment is one of the trickiest parts of any board game Kickstarter. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. BangWee did an awesome job. The inventory all looks neat.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In 1997, I got a Shareware Game of the Year award from a magazine that doesn’t exist anymore. I like getting in on big, cultural events. And if I, a game designer, can't enjoy fun, what am I even doing here? Not long ago, I wrote an article about how terrible one of the game industry's award shows, The Game Awards is.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This article will give you the required solutions to get rid of this situation. Bethesda has done an outstanding job by creating this awesome game. Your controller may not work with Starfield due to the following reasons: Misconfiguration: The root of the problem can be the misconfiguration on the game client or on your PC.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg’s big gamble on the metaverse incorporates scanned and detailed versions of our actual selves, that we can take into virtual environments to interact with others. But it does a good job of demonstrating Meta’s thinking and ambition on this issue. “We collapse that into a codec. .

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. Basically, developers would be charged money per game install, no matter where that came from. It's the tool you use to make games. That are negative. What about demos?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 4, 2023

We’d love to know how satisfied you are with your current job. game industry work satisfaction survey “It’s time to admit that remote work doesn’t work. Personally, over the years I have experience running games studios as fully on-site, remote, and hybrid. We will share our findings in our next newsletter!

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Welcome to the inaugural post of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. Every week for the next year, and probably well beyond that, I’ll be posting a new article to this series. If you want to self-publish a game by yourself or in a small team, you’re the kind of person I’m writing for.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 26, 2023

Video games are one of the world’s most beloved leisure activities, with over three billion active gamers globally as of 2023. The popularity and prevalence of gaming have reached unprecedented levels and are only expected to grow with each passing year. But video games have their fair share of controversy.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In order to self-publish a board game, you will have a lot of responsibilities. These responsibilities include marketing, sales, fulfillment, accounting, and…oh yeah…designing the game. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I've been working continuously making indie video games longer than, let's say, anyone. So let's get to it: There are too many indie games. Well, nobody wants this many games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article discusses and compares male and female stereotypes in gaming for the purpose of analyzing common societal perceptions. This is a much-dreaded question game developers ask themselves at every stage of game development. Just design a game targeted for women between the ages of 25 and 45, and you’re all set!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games. Need help on your board game?

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

In this article, we take a peek at how the future of metaverse can transform the workplace. New roles in the metaverse economy The internet did not simply bring new working ways; instead, it brought an entirely new digital economy - new jobs, new enterprises and new roles. What is metaverse?

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This article will help you with all the required information. Getting mediocre FPS from the high-end game is a common problem. However, this becomes a matter of serious concern if the FPS count is too low and the game is not playable. But other things also can affect your game performance. Expand Display adapters.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I say more about each game on the podcast, so make sure to check that out. Overly smoothed out, like most modern big production videogames. Sadly, also a way overly complicated combat system and overall it has “modern videogame over-smoothed-ness” IN STARS AND TIME – Very cool game that I recommend you go check out.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I’ll answer the big question first. ” Locals call that stretch of road the Big Monkey. On the Big Monkey, you can gamble, spend $50000 on a low-end wrist watch, eat generally delicious food, and watch your bank account scream as it is slowly skinned alive. And cook it in a big oven.

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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. Balancing Levers The idea of “post-balance” from this article’s title doesn’t mean no balance.

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Rindoku

APRIL 7, 2017

We’ve been super, duper busy since Casual Connect adding the next big system: robot customization and player progression. It’s basically the part of the game that will form… *drumroll*… THE OUTER LOOOOOP! It’s what makes a game enjoyable at a micro-level. Job well done!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Codex is a new take on customizable card games. Last week I posted a new Raw Game Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) where I discuss "reset buttons" in Codex (cards that blow up the board so you can possibly come back from a very bad position). Finally, we discuss what Geiger's moves will be in the Fantasy Strike fighting game.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. However, there is another acronym that is less recognized but just as big a problem and, frankly, a lot harder to solve – ECS, which stands for Eternal China Syndrome.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. What I mean by that it is easy to pick up and play, which for a card game is no small feat. Most importantly, the game was and is performing! What’s the best way to describe Marvel Snap?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2018

Given the good progress of our Patreon campaign, we actually anticipated this goal and I have been working full-time since early March (after quitting my previous job in February). was released (note that author information on those old blog posts is incorrect, I was not posting articles at that time :)). Merging PRs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. I am Sophie, a creative Game Lead working at Voodoo. I joined Voodoo in Berlin with the goal to open a new studio that would develop new types of games (i.e. What games to make? So I never had to think too hard about where to start.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2018

I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. Game Developers Conference. Before anything, I'm sure that many reading this article don't really know what GDC is. This event is not mainly about showcasing games, like E3 or Gamescom, but entirely for developers themselves.

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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. from the cartoon on TV.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventeenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Artists are some of the most important people you will work with when you’re creating a game.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I bought mine from The Pi Hut right here in the UK, but I will provide more purchase links at the end of this article. Mhz, which is closer to the clock speed of the Amiga and Atari ST than the Atari or C64, and a lot faster than most of us are used to when coding retro games. What is the Neo6502 like?

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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? How can you tell stories through games? Why is storytelling important?

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Game Designing

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The role combines both artistic and technical skills into a single job that is crucial for productions in film, television, video game development, and more. This job is in high demand at a number of different companies and can be a well-paying career with great growth potential. What is a 3D Animation Rigger?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I Am a Public Figure When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), Organized swarms of angry people can cost you your job. Game designers, writers, comic artists. Suppose you are, like all right-thinking people, a big fan of Taylor Swift.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1. It’s great for publicity.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories. A couple of years ago I wrote an article called “The Project RPG” wherein I tried to describe some of these properties. I’ve recently taken that article down, for a couple of reasons. Sense of wonder. This isn’t the fault of players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. But now, thanks to this tantalizing report we get to wonder, what should be the gaming of Netflix? What do we actually know? Though same was said of Amazon….

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