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. Failure is brutal. Nobody wants to fail.

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CG Spectrum

MARCH 13, 2023

How will AI impact artists such as digital illustrators and concept artists ? The ever-evolving technological landscape shows no signs of slowing down, so, as an artist, it's vital to build the skills that will allow you to adapt to whatever comes next. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) art? but the final creation is left to AI.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Most board game mechanics will not work as well as you intend them to. Good board game developers need to know when to drop mechanics and when to refine them. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game? Constraints.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As part of this drive, for months I’ve been creating over 100 new items, most of them including new mechanics. Some individual items take days or even weeks to build. The results since then have been great, but what comes next? Lots and lots of fun. There’s already a ton of core content--many hundreds of hours worth.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Each director has a different idea of how the script will look on the screen. That's why being able to create the image of your film in pre-production is extremely important. Visualise how you see all the elements in your script with Filmustage's Visual Reference board. We are open to discussion and criticism.

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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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Brand Game Development

JULY 8, 2019

Of all the mechanics in the board game world, variable player powers remain a fan favorite. Games with this mechanic range from Gloomhaven to Terraforming Mars to 7 Wonders. Part of their popularity comes from the ease with which they add variety to games. So how do we implement them? Need help on your board game?

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

State Machines A very useful pattern that you will frequently run into in game design is the State Machine. State We’ll be creating a basic state class that will be potentially useful and generic enough to use in a number of places. With that in mind, we’ll organize accordingly.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. Hey, its me 7thSage again, welcome back to part 2 of the Godot Tactics series. This week we’ll be dipping our toes into the first bit of Gdscript for the project. Gdscript is similar to Python. Loops are separated based on indentation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings? is coming out soon. improvements. The compatibility backend is based on OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 / WebGL 2.0 x release cycles.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Clark Overview In my first blog project, the Tactics RPG, I included a lesson on pathfinding over a 3D board. In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

He’s the professorial mind behind Meeple Like Us , a board game review site with an academic focus on accessibility. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re a board game review blog. license ( Source ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They are capable of creating art, of generating beautiful images from a simple set of words. How exactly? Both platforms became available in July of this year and have created a furor online. All because of the simple principle of work: artificial intelligence creates pictures based on natural language. Or, is it art?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category. The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5%

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

On March 16th, in the midst of a global pandemic, Supercell dropped a new game: Hay Day Pop (HDP). The minute a supercell game is released, a thousand slack notifications go off. Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. Edited by Adam Telfer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

There are several reasons why Matchington Mansion is on our lips: Firstly, it’s because the game is raking in over $15M in net revenues a month. Secondly, it’s because the game was able to challenge Playrix successfully in their own game. And there are 15 million reasons to look deeper into how they did it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As Slush 2023 wraps up, it sparked numerous conversations around the likelihood of small seed-funded gaming ventures growing into substantial teams within the current investment climate. The Challenges of Startup Growth What are some common patterns that founders follow as they begin their journeys to launch a startup?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. Clash Mini is one of the three Clash games Supercell announced in April of 2021. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini?

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. I don’t think it’s possible for a 4X game to consistently provide a satisfying, climactic ending; the genre’s strengths come from the vast possibility space, the lack of guardrails, and a commitment to reward smart play fairly.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Perfect board game pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. But how do you do that?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

One of the hallmarks of good board game design is being able to create hard choices. Let’s talk about how you can create hard choices in your board game. He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study!

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Zugzwang by Robert Yang This post details my process and intent for making my new release Zugzwang (pronounced in German like /ts'OOK-ts'VAHng/ ) a tactical sex dungeon roguelike cum ritual game. I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils what happens in the game.

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