Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Last week , I shared with you games I played during my formative years, and how those games made an impact on my taste in boardgames as an adult. I wasn’t expecting to discover the impact those childhood games made on my preferences as an adult. Need help on your board game? So…game plan change!

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

Monopoly: it’s one of the oldest board games in the store. It’s one of the top 10 best-selling board games. It’s also a terrible board game. When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game?

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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

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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OPM Jobs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Valentine’s Day is an occasion to show how much you care about that particular someone. However, chocolates and flowers aren’t always enough—a memorable gift, such as a gadget or game, might feel a lot more meaningful. Gaming isn’t inherently romantic or sexy, of course.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

Almost two years ago today, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Highways & Byways. Yet two years later, when I look back, I see how its failure ended up improving my life and my business in a number of ways. Need help on your board game? They won’t tell you how.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 10, 2017

Becoming a game developer/blogger was my second career choice. It was therefore my great pleasure and fortune to be able to play out my Sergio Leone film fantasies at the game table of my friendly local gaming store. Need help on your board game? After a few rounds, the game is over and you count your cash.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. So, what’s to blame?

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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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. First things first: make sure your game is great. The Fundamentals. User Experience.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Instead of focusing directly on game development, I’ve focused on learning as much as I can about board games. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game?

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Gwyn chooses her own family, and now, Dal must face that his crew is his family in a much more literal sense. Gwyn chooses her own family, and now, Dal must face that his crew is his family in a much more literal sense. HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. Zero finds his collective. She also offers Dal a few augmentations of her own.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The mark of a great game developer is to make great complexity and interaction come out of simple elements. I’ve come up with a theory which I call the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention). Why implement minigames?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

In the last few articles, Nebo wrote about recent changes in the User Acquisition (UA) space and what is their impact on how we distribute apps , define ROAS targets and, finally set up and automate creative production. IPM measures how well your campaigns stands out and the performance of your store front.

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Today, games are still not as diverse as they should be in the modern world. The games industry can do better than this. Transgender people play games and transgender people work in the games industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Written by Laura Taranto and Ahmetcan Demirel , both senior product leaders with vast experience in casual games. Tune in to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast where Laura co-hosts the notorious This Week in Games (TWIG) segment and make sure to read Laura’s previous analysis: Royal Match - The New King from Turkey?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 15, 2021

Board games have been wildly successful in the last ten years. That’s why many are surprised to hear that solo board games not only exist but are very common. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Good thing, too.

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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. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. Most importantly, the game was and is performing!

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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. Anyway, you can now get your hands on these games if you missed the kickstarter. Four out of four kickstarters on time! One example is the "snacking" mechanic.

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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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable and relevant information along with tips, tools and solutions to help you grow your business.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The neutral cards are generally simpler than the cards of other factions because they are meant as an intro to the game. The neutral cards are generally simpler than the cards of other factions because they are meant as an intro to the game. The Renegades are the neutral faction in Codex.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 18, 2019

You can feel like your voice isn’t heard and that community building is futile. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many have asked me how I’ve done this and how you can do the same. It just takes a lot of work.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

It’s quarantine o’clock and I’m responding to comments that I got on a post I wrote a few weeks ago: What confuses you about board game development ? This time, I’m going to talk about pitching to board game publishers. Need help on your board game? I can help.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Brandon is humoring me with a mini game blog series where I give you MY perspective on board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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? How do you make rules? How do you make rules?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

While choosing January 1 to start something that you’ve always wanted to do is completely arbitrary, it sure does work! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Create your first board game. Card games count, too!

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Much like my old staple How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev , I’ll be covering everything you need to know to get started on Facebook as a board game developer.

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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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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. These titles earned – and keep – respect in the hobby gaming community.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is 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. However interesting this was, it’s not a game I could make.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the second of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? For War Co.

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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. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc. Patrons helped playtest and also just point out errors or give suggestions how to improve things. Instead.it's fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. As the casinos worldwide shut down the Casino games on touchscreen devices hit the jackpot with a nearly 50% increase of IAP spend year-over-year. billion IPO.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. According to the Attention-Interest-Desire-Action model which I discussed in A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion , I consider web traffic to be interest. Go to Bluehost.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But with November comes Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hannukah, and New Years, so in my family that means the season of family games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I am good at Rummikub and I like card games. Happy Monday to all!

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

DOS games were those developed under this operating system. While some of the best DOS games can bring you back to wonderful memories of your younger years, they also laid the foundation for what we see in the gaming world today. What Makes A Good DOS Game? Did the game perform well for what it was?

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