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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JUNE 30, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week in the Dev Diary, I talked about how board game development is a long, ongoing process with a lot of different stages. Waiting for Kickstarter to approve your campaign.

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JULY 27, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Whether you’re just spreading the word about one game or whether you’re building a whole long-lasting business from scratch, you should consider advertising as part of a larger marketing plan.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Getting started in board game development can be both intimidating and expensive. I’m almost certainly not the only blogger you’ve looked to for advice, and I can probably guess one thing you get told a lot: “play more games!” Need help on your board game? They’re cheap.

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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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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? Marketing is a slow dance.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The board game review process is one of the most important parts of game development. Need help on your board game? Why are board game reviews important?

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JULY 9, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. To help us understand the nuances of Reddit, particularly board game Reddit, I’ve brought in Raf Cordero. I sent Raf a list of questions by email. It’s a place for discussion.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 29, 2017

Specifically, you need to be thinking about how people determine what’s valuable. The way you value your game is way different than how everybody else will. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. CC BY-SA 2.0,

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AUGUST 21, 2017

This is not a post about what you need to do, think, or spend to make a game, nor is it a post about board games themselves. This is a post about the players in a much bigger game: the board game industry itself. Need help on your board game? Your Potential Customers.

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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. Take your time.

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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. This is how War Co.

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MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? I want to see you build your account organically into the thousands.

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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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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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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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JULY 29, 2019

Board gaming has a long, storied history that goes back to ancient times. You can find old games of Ur, Senet, and Chess carved out of stone and buried in tombs. Indeed, the modern board game landscape that we know and love is only about as old as Catan , which came out in 1995. Need help on your board game?

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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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AUGUST 26, 2019

Self-publishing a board game is a long, drawn-out process. Some of this goes back to the process of creating your game, getting it manufactured, and raising funds. 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

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box.

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MARCH 5, 2018

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

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JUNE 17, 2019

In many ways, the modern board gaming boom began with Catan. It is a phenomenal game that, when it came out in 1995, revolutionized the way we saw board games. on Board Game Geek. But board games have been around since Mesopotamia , so let’s talk about the top 10 old board games.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? How do I turn the idea into a working game engine?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? What are game mechanics? Who is Jesse Bergman?

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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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JANUARY 20, 2020

Being able to analyze and move forward after failure is critical to your success and a big part of getting your game from Start to Finish. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Passion needs to be at the root of your product.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

When it comes to Kickstarting your board game, there is no shortage of complicated tasks which you will need to complete. You – or someone you outsource to – must be able to design a game , bring it into physical form , build an audience , and make sure there’s a market for it in the first place.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Highways & Byways is ready for blind play-testing, and I’ll be spending this weekend setting up a plan on how I’m going to coordinate testing from this point forward. Need help on your board game?

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MARCH 27, 2017

My first game, War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I didn’t have a Board Game Geek account until last year. In fact, I knew very little about modern board games until last year.

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