Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

I would have much preferred to write a post about how Highways & Byways funded on day 1. 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. It was preventable.

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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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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

This marks the beginning of what will be the most significant undertaking in Cogmind’s UI development history: making everything bigger. We didn’t yet know what reasonable limits to put on such a feature, as in what’s the absolute furthest it could go without compromising other parts of the game design.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail, you’ve probably heard the advice “go to cons.” ” But what exactly do you do at board game conventions? But first, Molly and her company are currently running a Kickstarter for The Million Dollar Doodle, a new creative party game.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Create your first board game.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

You need to make people interested in what you have to say and what you have to offer. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Figure out your audience. Absolute perfection in the marketplace is impossible to find.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Self-publishing a board game for the first time is an incredibly disorienting and complicated experience. Need help on your board game? My first game was War Co. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? How can you tell stories through games?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Happy Monday to all! 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Make sure to listen to the podcast below to dive even deeper into Clash Quest. The game has not achieved the business objectives set by Supercell and the game will shut down. In games, like in real life, we often have more to learn from misses than successes. Written by Laura Taranto , Javier Barnés , and Anette Staloy.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re interested in growing your business on mobile and beyond, look no further. 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. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent, but powerful newsletter. Before you jump in, let us sum up how we arrived to the predictions. This analysis is written by Miikka Ahonen , Niek Tuerlings and yours truly. Puzzle Games Continued to Grow.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. Dream Games was founded by two of Peak’s former Product Directors. Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

Over the last four articles of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game , I’ve talked about a lot of things that are more complicated than you’d think. I’ve written about the five levels of communication game developers must master. Need help on your board game?

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