Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

You’ve spent months, if not years, leading up to your Kickstarter campaign. When your Kickstarter successfully funded, it seemed like the apotheosis of your board game career. But with great money, comes great responsibility… Need help on your board game?

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MAY 13, 2019

Board game development is notorious for its trial-and-error approach. You may create dozens of versions of the same game until you finally find one you’re satisfied with. 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

JULY 30, 2018

In 2012, as many as 84% Kickstarter projects were fulfilled late. While I suspect that figure has dropped since then, it’s still a running joke that Kickstarter projects always fulfill late. So what’s happening and how can we prevent you from suffering the same fate? Need help on your board game?

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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. I didn’t intend to create a series on failure recovery when I created Start to Finish, but after the failure of my Highways & Byways Kickstarter campaign in April , I believe it to be necessary.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 6, 2019

Lately, I’ve been talking about the hard truths of the board game business. You can’t just make the board game you want. You have to make the board game other people want. Need help on your board game? Just look at some of these posts I’ve been publishing lately.

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Brand Game Development

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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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. 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 !

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 8, 2019

Making board games is really difficult. A lot of people who decide to make board games can’t tell the difference between the right and wrong reasons to make a board game. I want to talk about this in depth today because your motivations will seep into everything you do – for better or for worse.

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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. This is true whether you launch on Kickstarter or whether you launch by more traditional means.

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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. There are three ways you can build your audience for the first time. Making your own content is good, but doing so with no outreach will make you feel like you’re screaming into a void.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

In 2016, Spirit Island raised $84,176 on Kickstarter. That is by no means a small amount to raise, but what’s interesting is that Spirit Island has remained on the Board Game Geek Hotness list off and on for almost three years. Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You have to take breaks for your own well-being. 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

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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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Either way, keeping your word is very important. You don’t have to be 100% perfect, but if you’re reliable, people will notice, especially your customers. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 3, 2017

I’ve written before about some of the rude awakenings I experienced when starting a board game business. It’s my hope that by spelling out the specific things that happened to me, I can prevent you from being surprised and disappointed by some of the harsh realities of game development. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 29, 2018

My difficult experiences with Highways & Byways – my recent game which ended in a failed Kickstarter campaign – have inspired me to add the Failure Recovery series to Start to Finish. 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

MAY 19, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. prior to and during its Kickstarter campaign, but it is also my favorite rapid prototyping tool. Still, Tabletop Simulator is just one form of digital play testing for board games. It was ridiculous.

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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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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

Whenever I saw a complaint from a game dev pop up on my Twitter feed, I recorded it in Excel. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. So many of the struggles that we deal with in game development are shared by others in the industry.

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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. What is board game development all about?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Kickstarter. The name alone evokes a lot of feelings in hopeful entrepreneurs and board gamers alike. Kickstarter – Maker and Breaker of Dreams. Kickstarter – Maker and Breaker of Dreams. Need help on your board game? Kickstarter isn’t a magic money machine.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 1, 2019

Of all the ways to learn about board game fulfillment, I didn’t think the Quacks of Quedlinburg would be one of them. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It involves order management, picking, packing, and shipping.

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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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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

AUGUST 28, 2017

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. Creating board games can be an expensive affair. Self-publishing is expensive.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Highways & Byways launches on Kickstarter March 26. Things are starting to get hectic around the Pangea Games office / my home office. Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Instagram is very particular about how you can use it.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

After spending a lot of time last week talking about how to make games, let’s talk about how to make them well. When it comes to games, there are a handful of truths that are very important to realize. Communication is key. Need help on your board game? Ideas don’t mean much.

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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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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. In this past year, I’ve been using Facebook’s advertising system to increase the visibility of blog posts and to drive people to the Highways & Byways Kickstarter mailer.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 26, 2018

Content marketing means you market your brand or your product by sharing information with potential customers. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. An example of a news sites in the board game industry would be the Dice Tower.

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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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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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