Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Box art is incredibly important in the board game industry. Not only are board game boxes beautiful, they are also iconic. People love looking at board game boxes – just check out Instagram sometime. There are whole accounts dedicated to showing off board game boxes!

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Brand Game Development

MAY 13, 2019

Board game development is notorious for its trial-and-error approach. Experienced designers and developers will tell you that it’s all about iteration. You may create dozens of versions of the same game until you finally find one you’re satisfied with. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Creating board games takes an enormous amount of time and effort. The simple fact is that there are a lot of distinct tasks that have to be handled to turn a game from an idea into reality. This is why I urge each new board game designer to share the workload , delegating tasks to a team instead of doing them all alone.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 4, 2020

I want to take a break from talking about board game development today. Instead, I’m going to talk about how you can manage your energy and stay very productive over a long period of time. After all, this is one of the most important qualities you can have when in the middle of a long haul board game project !

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Board games have been absurdly popular for the last several years. In 1999, the possibility of the board game industry experiencing a massive renaissance like the one we’ve all been witness to was laughable. Then, serendipitously, one by one, the obstacles toward the modern board gaming landscape fell away.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

Can you hear that coughing? It’s time to talk about Pandemic – one of the greatest games ever made. Pandemic is an evergreen game with a multitude of variants and legacy games. It’s also the first cooperative game for a lot of gamers. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 6, 2019

Lately, I’ve been talking about the hard truths of the board game business. You can’t just make the board game you want. You have to make the board game other people want. Need help on your board game? You will experience things that will actually change you.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how to manage a Kickstarter community. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? The Early Design.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

I’m fortunate enough to say that when I made War Co. nothing completely broadsided me during the development process when in came to tax and law. Instead of leaving you to Google and experiment on your own, I’ll share a few experiences I’ve had. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I don’t want to play a game that is too intense (no offense, Dominion ), I don’t want a game that is too easy (I’ll only play Go Fish with my 3-year-old niece). Instead, I find myself somewhere in the middle when it comes time to picking out a game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Everything would be just right if you could just hit that goal… Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. After it, you can hope to passively sell your game and reap the rewards in the form of sales. That’s just not the case.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 16, 2018

About a year ago, I wrote How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. It fits in beautifully with the Marketing & Promoting Your Game series of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. Need help on your board game? You have to very slowly build your reputation.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

My own recent failure to launch a board game in 2018 , Highways & Byways , is what inspired this detour from the originally planned articles. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When given meaning, failure becomes bearable.

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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. This is a much-dreaded question game developers ask themselves at every stage of game development.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Creating a great scoring system in a board game can be a difficult process. Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Scoring rules are among the most important, particularly in euro games. So how do you do it?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. That’s how I do things. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? Brandon: Excellent!

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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. 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.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The man did not know that the cocoon’s job was to provide the struggle and resistance the butterfly needed to grow.” I invite you to join me as we journey through Mantey’s metamorphosis. The Incredible Potential of Games Duck Hunt was one of Mantey’s first games as a child. I just ignored it and walked away.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 30, 2017

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. Last week in the Dev Diary, I talked about how board game development is a long, ongoing process with a lot of different stages.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 12, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. One of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship is knowing when to change your mindset. We all go into our day-to-day endeavors saddled with a set of assumptions on how life works. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail stores, it helps to set small, achievable goals. Just one board game in one board game store! Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! And that’s how we wound up on an enjoyable video call for over 2 hours!

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 24, 2017

Board Game Geek is the online mecca for board gamers. It’s extraordinarily popular and an immense repository of all the board game data you can imagine. I cannot overstate the importance of Board Game Geek to the board game community. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 17, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’ve been hinting and hinting and hinting and hinting at a new board game project for a while. I’ve just started development on a new board game. Are you into travel?

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This game, which combines Match-3 core with merge progression originally launched globally in the second half of 2020. Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. He taught you how to merge flowers and get nectar to unlock new zones for you to explore.

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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. It is a lot to organize and do no matter how many people are involved. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 29, 2018

My difficult experiences with Highways & Byways – my recent game which ended in a failed Kickstarter campaign – have inspired me to add the Failure Recovery series to Start to Finish. Today I want to tackle a gigantic question: what do you do after you fail? Need help on your board game?

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 30, 2018

So what’s happening and how can we prevent you from suffering the same fate? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Any and all Kickstarter board game projects require you to act as a project manager. Make it small.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 8, 2017

A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of playing 5-Minute Dungeon at the friendly local gaming store for the first time. This game got us rowdier than ever before and it was awesome! 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Highways & Byways is nearly complete. It still needs some art and I’ll want to do lots of double-blind play-testing. Need help on your board game? Click here. That’s a mistake.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 9, 2017

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. The “Highway” designation is my way of saying “I’m ready to play-test the game.”

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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. 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.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 9, 2017

You must absolutely master it to achieve the financial success you desire when self-publishing a game. When you’ve put in the hard work, it’s only natural to want to reap the benefits. Need help on your board game? First things first: make sure your game is great.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

Completely away from my day job and my business, I found myself reflecting on the winding journey I’ve taken over the last couple of years to get here. I realized that in my push to create Highways & Byways , I’ve neglected six very powerful background skills that make game developers great. Write them down.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 23, 2017

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. He created all 300 of the original pieces of art in my first game, War Co. , Need help on your board game?

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