Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 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 much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

Through live-streaming, we can share videos of ourselves and our screens with a greater audience, who can communicate with us through chat. It’s tempting to think that the analog nature of board games would preclude live-streaming, but this is not the case. Need help on your board game? Why stream games?

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Brand Game Development

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last week, I posted A Crash Course in Games , where I acted as a tour guide to the board game industry, covering much of the contextual information you’ll need to make games. Let’s pick up from there and talk about what specifically goes into making a game. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2023

There are various ways to make sure social media plays a vital role in your overall marketing plan. There are various ways to make sure social media plays a vital role in your overall marketing plan. Some of the key goals for social media marketing are game discovery, sales lifecycle, community building and direct communications.

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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? First, I’ll level with you.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In order to monetize your board game idea successfully, you must first understand what your gamers expect from your games and how much they are willing to spend. What is game monetization? Game monetization is the process of making money from games. To generate revenue through the game.

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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. Who is your target audience? This is a much-dreaded question game developers ask themselves at every stage of game development. A very casual summary of the casual puzzle player demographics.

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Brand Game Development

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. There is no perfect audience.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It’s been over a year in the making, and we’ve finally arrived: this is the last article in the Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game series. You’ve learned how to design and develop a game, build an audience, and market your game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Escape Rooms will make you a better board game designer. With this in mind, here are six reasons I believe that Escape Rooms will make you a better board game designer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. What makes these strange hybrid “casino battler” games tick? How To Play?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 20, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Creating something new is scary.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

2023 also saw fewer new releases compared to the year before, and there were even fewer successful ones. 2023 also saw fewer new releases compared to the year before, and there were even fewer successful ones. How do I operate an existing project in order to maintain and increase earnings? Top image: Merge Mansion.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 13, 2020

Certainly, board game designers can learn a lot from well-designed escape rooms. Exit Games by Kosmos are the closest we can get to the authentic in-person experience right now. Exit Games by Kosmos are the closest we can get to the authentic in-person experience right now. Need help on your board game?

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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. We all go into our day-to-day endeavors saddled with a set of assumptions on how life works. 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

MARCH 8, 2021

There are over 100,000 board games in existence. A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 2, 2018

If you are a board game developer like me, you are simultaneously privileged and burdened to live in this current time. On the one hand, board games have seen a massive surge of popularity, growing about 20% every year for the last few years. It seems like board gaming just broke a billion dollars as a market.

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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. Mid-Development.

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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. To save you a click: it was a product made for no specific audience in mind at a price point that was unresolvably high. Need help on your board game? They won’t tell you how. Fail faster.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Everdell is a worker placement, tableau-building board game.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

New creators tend to see it as the one big goal to achieve before reaching success. 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. Kickstarter is big, flashy, and exciting.

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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. Who is Carla?

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Game Daily

MAY 15, 2023

Launched last month, Meta World: My City from Netmarble N2 is a blockchain real estate digital board game with additional virtual real estate building and trading as well as social metaverse activities. Netmarble N2’s previous work includes the similarly Monopoly-like game Let’s Get Rich.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 11, 2019

Last week, I talked about Kickstarter, and how I could see that website changing in the near future. It occurred to me shortly after I wrote that article that many people approach board games with the intention of making money, but not necessarily making games as an end to itself. Think long-term.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the last few years, we’ve been living through a glorious age: the Great Board Game Renaissance. In a world aglow with smartphones, tablets, and those annoying billboards that change every five seconds on the side of the road, analog gaming has become a welcome retreat for millions. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

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. Despite being more than ten years old now, this new classic can still teach us a lot.

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Brand Game Development

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. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

One of the most jarring experiences for new game developers is the process of getting their game reviewed. Drama aside, it truly is difficult at first because you have to identify reviewers, send prototypes, make sure your game is ready enough, cross your fingers, and hope they like it. Game reviews build trust.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

Board game conventions are the flashiest events in board gaming. They are wonderful gathering places for board gamers. It should come as no surprise that many game creators go to conventions to pick up customers. Need help on your board game? This is how you do it. Parting Advice.

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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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With games, this involves the nature of the project itself.

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Brand Game Development

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? Click here.

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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? Marketing is a slow dance. Trust me, I tried.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

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Brand Game Development

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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