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

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. They were the creative force behind the game, and really, the soul of it. Need help on your board game?

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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.

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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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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

It’s tempting to think that the analog nature of board games would preclude live-streaming, but this is not the case. Live-streaming board games can be done with digital tools such as Tabletop Simulator or video cameras capturing gameplay on the physical tabletop. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 16, 2018

In reality, press releases are well-crafted emails that you send to bloggers and journalists – in our case, those in the board game industry. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Extra, extra – read all about it!

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Brand Game Development

MAY 20, 2019

A lot of board game creators ask the same question: “how do you fund your board game on Kickstarter?” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It’s a great question. Self-fund.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It’s no secret that board game publishers like to reduce risks. Most publishers have a system in place to help them filter marketable game ideas from unmarketable game ideas. Yet the process, so heavy on rejection, has left many game designers heartbroken. Need help on your board game?

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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.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article on how to prepare for the cost of board game fulfillment. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I’ve written how-to guides to help you address these three issues.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Board games have been absurdly popular for the last several years. In 1999, the possibility of the board game industry experiencing a massive renaissance like the one we’ve all been witness to was laughable. Then, serendipitously, one by one, the obstacles toward the modern board gaming landscape fell away.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Kickstarter campaigns are rapidly becoming the primary means of sales for many board game creators. Even if you can’t get your game into physical stores, you can always set up shop online, whether through Amazon or through your own site. Need help on your board game? Testing the shop.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 27, 2018

Even if you don’t, it’s still helpful – but it’s not as specific to your needs. Fulfillment is one of the trickiest parts of any board game Kickstarter. 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today’s post is the last of my “Top 5 Games” series. If you haven’t noticed, the game Pandemic pulled a Jumanji and now we’re living it. But I decided that I would be remiss if I did not include it, as it was the first modern board game and it really reignited my love for board games.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 9, 2017

You must absolutely master it to achieve the financial success you desire when self-publishing a game. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. First things first: make sure your game is great. The Fundamentals. User Experience.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Everybody who goes to Kickstarter with hopes of publishing their board game desires to not only fund, but to achieve many stretch goals. After all, doing so means you make more money and your game ends up in more people’s hands! Need help on your board game? Stretch goals! Picking Stretch Goals.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

When you’re making your first board game, retail distribution is probably not top of mind. Many creators choose to focus on making a brilliant game, well play-tested, with great art, and good Kickstarter potential. Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! And that’s fine!

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Brand Game Development

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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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 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 manage a Kickstarter community. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

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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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 2, 2017

That is because new entrepreneurs don’t know how to get products from point A to point B. The silver lining here being that if you fulfill on time, you will impress your backers and they will remember you. Need help on your board game? Your manufacturer has to receive parts from their suppliers.

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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?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When I refer to “making a game plan”, I don’t mean a plan to create a board game. I mean a game plan for tackling big, hairy audacious goals. How do you go from a big dream like “I want to create a successful board game” to reality? Need help on your board game? Design game.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In fact, I’ve been thinking this week that in the absence of major game development or logistics challenges, this will be the defining challenge of this Kickstarter campaign. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Heads up, this post is targeted at game developers in the United States. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Your international customers might be charged customs or VAT, unless you ship from within their country or region.

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Game Daily

JUNE 2, 2023

Speaking at Gamesbeat Summit , Meta’s Tim Lion (head of gaming marketing, global brand & programs) shared a research paper created alongside Newzoo. The research sought to categorize Meta’s target audience according to their current relationships with games, ranging from shades of hardcore, through to ultra-casuals.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Board game conventions have a certain mystique to them. Many board gamers absolutely adore going to big conventions such as Gen Con, Essen, or UKGE. As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? This is how you do it.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 16, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’ve got some Gantt charts and knockoff Vizio diagrams explaining my approach to Highways & Byways as a holistic project and not just a game. Need help on your board game?

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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. This is how War Co.

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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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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 10, 2024

How did you get into programming? Where would you like to go with your coding? A conversation on social media sparked this idea, I thought it would be interesting for the Retro Game Coders community to share how you got into programming and your journey from starting out to what you do now? Which do you still use?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

This week, we jump into what it takes to design great Match 3 games and how we would improve Makeover Match. Case: Makeover Match Making games is hard. As player expectations rise and market conditions become more challenging, creating a successful game and maintaining that success is becoming increasingly difficult.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. Most importantly, the game was and is performing!

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Game Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

I wrote that the place, where millions of games and electronics were turned around for resale “isn’t just a factory, it’s a mint” In those days, used games were a valid currency, with much of the revenue generated from trades going back into the purchase of new games. billion (down 10% year-on-year from $1.4

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Welcome to our annual, highly anticipated, prediction series.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. . Read the Full Tutorial ?

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