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

AUGUST 4, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In the wee hours of the morning last Friday night, James Masino delivered the first serious draft of Highways & Byways board art. Need help on your board game?

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

This Friday, September 25 at 10pm Pacific Time is the deadline to sign up for all the physical cards to get early access to Codex. You'll get the base set and all expansions so you can help with the last stage of development of the game. 1) Sign up at as a patron at the $25 level for at least one month on my Patreon.

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iHobo

MAY 23, 2023

Of all my hundreds of game projects, this is still the title where I am most proud of the game design, the project where I beam with pride when I think of the incredible team and the contributions everyone made to make such a memorable and unique experience. Today is the twentieth anniversary of the release of Ghost Master.

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Rampant Games

JANUARY 13, 2020

I didn’t think it was possible to feel the kind of grief I did from the death of a man I never met, but Friday’s news hit me kinda hard. Neil Peart, drummer and primary lyricist for my favorite band, Rush, died of brain cancer. Their music has inspired me most of my life. A great one to go out on.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 27, 2024

In the 2D side scrolling horror game Terror at Oakheart players follow a diverse cast of characters that are all destined to die gruesomely at the hands of a psychotic serial killer known as Teddy. The game is developed by Californian solo dev Michael Cosio, working under the name of Tainted Pact. What’s your creative process?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 26, 2018

One of the greatest forms of marketing, my personal favorite, in fact, is content marketing. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. To get your creative juices flowing, I’m going to cover 12 common types of content marketing in board gaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This guest post is written by Gordon Rowe , an experienced product leader that has spent 10 years building and operating free to play games on mobile, web, and consoles. It’s 2:02 pm on a Friday and I’ve got a lot of work to do. It’s the last thing I do before I sleep, and the first thing I check when I wake up.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

Yay, it's time for the answers to last Friday's Questions. How you divide your time between making games and living "real life" ? Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. Romulus: What your programming environment looks like?

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 14, 2011

Last Thanksgiving, I was drafting with a guy named Zak Walter who had invented a deck of what he called "draft conditions". Not long after that I took the most memorable conditions from that night, brainstormed up a bunch of my own, added a few from Dan Kline , and made my first set of twenty conditions. draft personalities?

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