Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’ve started the final 100 play-tests. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. Need help on your board game? On average, the game is average.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

Sending email newsletters to well-targeted mailing lists is one of the best ways you can spread the word of your business and keep customers engaged. Before you create a mailing list, you need to understand how they fit into your marketing strategy. I’m a big fan of mailing lists. Mailing List Basics.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A lot of game development is occupied by time spent in the Unity Editor. In this lesson we will spend some time preparing our scene to look more like the finished game. If you followed along with the first lesson, open your existing “Breakout” project. Otherwise, you can start from this sample project here.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

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. This marks the beginning of what will be the most significant undertaking in Cogmind’s UI development history: making everything bigger. It had to wait.

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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

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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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Astral Clocktower Studios x Game Raven Review. You can listen to our episode of the Game Raven Review podcast right meow!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 22, 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 to find an audience for a board game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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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. Make something lightweight, like a small card game.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Sometimes it’s hard to know which direction to go in, but by far, the hardest part is that there is a limit to how fast you can go – 16 miles per hour. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, in the spirit of Halloween, I wrote Performing a Board Game Autopsy: Learning from Your Mistakes. In April of this year, I did an autopsy on my first game, War Co. Click here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game. The current game could continue to grow for a while, but its current economic policies are fundamentally unsustainable.

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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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