Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

Almost two years ago today, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Highways & Byways. When it wound up being just another failed Kickstarter campaign, it hurt badly. How a Failed Kickstarter Made My Life Better. How a Failed Kickstarter Set Me Up for Marriage. Shortly after I Kickstarted War Co. ,

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 10, 2020

So in summary, what you see on Kickstarter makes up a fraction of the global $12 billion market. Kickstarter Isn’t the Same as It Was in 2010 or Even 2017. Kickstarter used to be a lot more welcoming toward board game projects that were not ready to print. Yet it gets even stranger. Of that $1.5 As little as 1.6%, in fact.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 21, 2017

It’s time to talk about your potential customers, the eight powerful groups in the board game industry, and The Hype Machine. Look for people within that group who might like your game. Powerful Groups within the Board Game Industry. Group 1: The Players. Group 2: The Manufacturers. Group 3: Games Like Yours.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Schmidt’s own spiritual journey and later his conversion to Islam, were all kickstarted by the video game Windwalker by game developer Greg Malone (and published by Origin in 1989). That doesn’t mean I will never work with a group. I guess I just haven’t found my group yet…” What are the biggest advantages of working solo?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

As an individual creator or a creator within a small, independent group of creators, you’ll be able to connect with others on an individual basis. If you work within a small group, you’ll walk away with a much bigger share than any publishing company would be willing to offer you. Just do it because you can.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Not only does it help you demystify some of the speech you hear when you get into gaming, but it also has implications that could affect how you classify your website, categorize your Kickstarter campaign, or target an audience on social media or for advertising. Kickstarter has become a de facto testing ground for new board game ideas.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 16, 2018

This could be a mailing list , a chat server , or a Facebook group. You want to send press releases about a week or a week and a half before your Kickstarter campaign goes live. You can Google “board game Kickstarter press release” to find sites like this. Preview of Kickstarter campaign: [Link]. Game Name].

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

I didn’t intend to create a series on failure recovery when I created Start to Finish, but after the failure of my Highways & Byways Kickstarter campaign in April , I believe it to be necessary. Not all failure comes in the form of unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns. Repeat this until you finally reach a satisfying answer.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 8, 2020

They almost always want to make games that their gaming groups will enjoy, just by nature. That is, how you are going to select a group of gamers to create a game for. In fact, play-testing is nothing more than assembling a focus group around a specific product, which is in your case, a game.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 6, 2019

Don’t Just Build a Board Game, Build a Business 6 Right and Wrong Reasons to Make a Board Game 4 Ways to Vet Your Board Game Before Launching a Kickstarter Board Games Aren’t Everything: 8 Reasons to Diversify Your Business. A game I had been working on for over a year and had spent $8,000 on had failed on Kickstarter.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are interested in play-testing Highways & Byways , click here to join the Facebook group so you can get notified of the play-testing events. Of course, I’ll want to raise funds on Kickstarter for the manufacturing process. Just this last week, a lot of things finally clicked. That’s all I’ve got today.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is true whether you launch on Kickstarter or whether you launch by more traditional means. For the sake of this discussion, we’ll assume that you’re getting your board game reviewed prior to a Kickstarter campaign. The board game review process is one of the most important parts of game development.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 17, 2018

I’ll demonstrate below with the sample timeline I created for Kickstarter Math: How to Deliver Your Board Game On-Time and Within Your Budget. A sample timeline for a board game designer, developer, and publisher team. What does this look like in practice? Interpreting the sample timeline.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 21, 2018

New professional Godot course on Kickstarter. Last week, Ben and his team started a new Kickstarter campaign for a Godot Engine course ! If you want to communicate directly with Ben, Yann and other users waiting for this course, you can join GameDev.tv's Facebook group dedicated to the Godot course. GameDev.tv

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

They made Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture – one of the prettiest and most promising board game Kickstarters I’ve seen this year. After a little Twitter-fu, I got all members of the team in my Discord to have a group chat about team dynamics in the board game industry. Will was also lead story writer for Tower.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Molly: Well, we had just two retailers pledge on our Kickstarter and I’m going to name them in a moment. Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Over the last couple of weeks of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher , I’ve talked about some of the strange goings-on I’ve noticed in the board game industry. Nowhere are these weird group dynamics more obvious than in the tabletop gaming news cycle. Photo of Azul by Mikko Saari on Flickr.

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Filmustage

MAY 18, 2023

Crowdfunding is a way to raise money from a large number of people, typically through online platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Private investors are individuals or groups who invest their own money in movies. Crowdfunding campaigns can be very successful, but they require a lot of time and effort to promote and manage.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 2, 2018

It’s difficult to send your brainchild to a critic who can influence the way your game is seen when it comes time to Kickstart or publish it. Recently, Kickstarter became popular, and it reignited my passion for board games. Dez: If I like a game, I will share it in the 10 different Facebook groups I’m a part of.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

I stumbled into Kickstarter, where I noticed some of the most innovative and exciting games were being launched, and this led me to find content creators on YouTube and Twitch. Will: I think our core viewers watch and participate in streams to replicate the experience of playing with a regular gaming group. Why do people watch?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

Believe it or not, this is the method I used with the Tasty Humans Kickstarter. My team and I collectively spent around $2,500 in marketing and ended up gaining around $28,000 between Kickstarter and BackerKit in return. If your game isn’t great for a specific group of gamers, no ad will save you.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 8, 2017

Originally from Kickstarter, this game is not as ubiquitous as the others I’ve covered in game breakdowns, so check out the Kickstarter and Board Game Geek pages to learn more. Yet when you add group dynamics and the timer, the challenge is quite formidable. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. Anything that can break through the sheer deluge of sameness that defines board game Facebook groups and Twitter feeds is valuable. With that in mind, we owe to ourselves to spend a little time studying its success!

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Indeed, on the Pangea Games Facebook group where we regularly give away free board games, Root has by far the most popular prize we’ve ever given away (all three times we’ve done it)! Many games have come and gone on Kickstarter. Leder Games really nailed it when they came out with their board game Root in 2018.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It’s one thing to be able to hype up your game during a Kickstarter campaign. Yet even in the midst of launching your game – whether you do so through Kickstarter or another means – you need to be considering “the after.” Keeping Momentum After Launch. ” What happens once that campaign is over?

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2018

Finding a small group in Seattle that could use my talents would also be fun. I don't know if I'd Kickstart a new game either. Kickstarter was fun, but it's also feeding the hype/narcissism train like nothing I've ever seen. Thimbleweed Park was a huge grind and it's going to take me a while to come down from that.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. 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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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Once you’ve created desire, ask them to take Action, like backing your Kickstarter. I’ve used the Highways & Byways Kickstarter page lately, which is a mailing list that will alert people when the campaign is live. Communities can be Facebook groups, chat rooms, forums, as well as physical offline clubs or organizations, too.

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

P andante 2nd Edition The new Flash Duel These games were part of my fourth Kickstarter and the rewards have now all been delivered to backers—a MONTH ahead of schedule. Four out of four kickstarters on time! Anyway, you can now get your hands on these games if you missed the kickstarter. Get one while supplies last. ;).

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

Twitter is an effective marketing tool that can increase the visibility of new board game developers, especially for Kickstarter. a card game funded on Kickstarter, which is on sale now. That means you should probably test your ads on a test audience or focus group before you put them out there. We’re in this together.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

One day, I decided to group the complaints into different categories. All the other stuff we think we fret about – selling, motivation, Kickstarter, our lousy day jobs, and day to day events – pale in comparison to the top five. Learning to communicate effectively with each of these groups is very important.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

I spoke about the value of mailing lists earlier in How to Generate Traffic for Your Board Game Kickstarter or Website , but today I want to dive into the details you need to know to get started. You can persuade people to read your posts, back your Kickstarter, or buy your game.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 5, 2021

Welcome to the inaugural post of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher! We’re seeing more million dollar Kickstarter campaigns. We’re seeing “good ideas” go to Kickstarter and struggle to fund, if they fund at all. Originally written in 2018, revised in 2021. Simple as that.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

In fact, when somebody visits your website, landing page, or Kickstarter campaign, that means something compelled them enough to click on a link or type in the address. Encouraging people to click on your website or Kickstarter campaign takes some effort, and I’ll get to specific recommendations farther down in this article.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Then it cuts to concept artist Emily Johnstone anxiously trying to pitch design ideas to a group brainstorm meeting which she just happens to be the only woman in the room. James pitches a miniature Mediterranean town, and group discussion morphs it into like a metaphorical hanging planter about to spill over or something?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

They’re the Kickstarter campaign and the stores they’re kept in. This question is why I’ve brought in Carla, who you might know from Super Hack Override & Stellar Leap , two tabletop games that have been successful on Kickstarter. Carla: I’ll be Kickstarting my next game, Fire in the Library , soon!

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s only after starting and successfully running a marketing agency and having two successful Kickstarter campaigns that I feel like I understand it well enough to write about it. If you want to see what happens when you don’t have it, check out this autopsy I did for a failed Kickstarter campaign I attempted in 2018.

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