Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In my quest to test Highways & Byways 100 more times before I release it to reviewers, I’ve found myself with relatively little to say. After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. I’ve already play-tested this game a ton. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 2020

” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how to manage a Kickstarter community. This week, I want to respond to a comment by Wade which can be roughly summarized as, “how do you manage a board game Kickstarter community?” Incorporate feedback to develop the best product.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

“I joined the team one year after they initially started… they only had really bad hardware and they all wanted to play squads… they just came up with the bright idea: okay, we know how to do some things in game development, why not just make it ourselves. . This is basically where it started,” Fink said.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

The ability to play board games online, however, has never been easier. I’ve talked about how you can create a Tabletop Simulator demo for your own game before. That’s why I want to give him a chance to tell his story. With over 30,000 games, it’s the biggest platform to play all your favorite games.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2018

It’s important to recognize this for what it is – when you start a campaign, you’re putting yourself out there for people to respond to. I believe a lot of creators – especially new ones – haven’t built up the emotional intelligence to fully understand how hard this can be. Click here.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

One of the things I’ve been focusing on a bit more in recent years is a revival of the greater game:non-game work ratio that Cogmind enjoyed in its early years when I was less interested in promoting it and more interesting in just building cool stuff. The dip below 1.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

What I mean by that it is easy to pick up and play, which for a card game is no small feat. As I walk you through the deconstruct, if you find yourself wondering how a new team was able to create such a high-quality game, the answer is straightforward: time, talent, and money, but most importantly, a lot of time! the TikTok company.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You may remember Ewald from when he had just started the Real-time 3D Foundations course and created his first impressive cinematic, Haven. Tell us about your latest cinematic, Menace. Talk us through how Menace was made. Hi again, Ewald! Title screen for Ewald's cinematic in Unreal Engine.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Even if some of these assumptions don’t apply to you, my use of these assumptions will keep complicated material simple and approachable for you. 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.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

These are just my personal observations, and I recommend you use this guide as a jumping-off point to come to your own conclusions. Design-wise, they're trying to remember how to make a Psychonauts game 10 years later. There's also a thrill of access, where the camera captures vulnerable moments it wasn't quite supposed to see.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I use Godot as an indie game developer ( Nekomatata ) and I've been a Godot contributor for a while ( Github ). Most of the work was dedicated to fixing regressions due to the new Display Server used for window management, which allows support for multiple windows. It's the one used in Godot at the moment. release as well.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

I'm sure others have written about the same topic, but this article is written from my own experience, in hopes of it being useful. Software engineering is based on listing requirements and developing use cases from them. From the use cases, all interactions are conceptualized. Making games is very fun, but very difficult.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

I changed plenty of things from the last time I posted about coherent creature design in April, I did a play testing with a couple of people and without further blabla I’d like to tell you everything about the final process up to this prototype. Prototype is ready! Watch the new trailer for GenoTerra right here: 96.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

What we believe separates our market analysis from other great ones you have read is that the predictions are written by professionals working in gaming studios around the World and strengthened by feedback from our nearly thousand people-strong community of game industry veterans. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios.

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Sirlin

JULY 22, 2015

"Former Street Fighter designer / Evolution staff member / writer of competitive gaming guide is working on a new fighting game focusing on easy execution, great online play, and will be free to play." You actually can't tell from that headline. I even quote a few paragraphs of Domination 101 in Playing to Win.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. You can learn more about the exclusive content you'll receive when you join us as a Kristala Patron throughout today's issue of the Kristala dev blog, but for now, let's get into this month's titillating game dev updates!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

There's no secret to how a good update should look: it should be engaging, profitable, and regular. But today, I'll tell you about how we at Belka, and specifically with Clockmaker, came to the point where our LiveOps took the project to a higher league. That was the time when we drastically rebuilt Clockmaker's LiveOps.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 20, 2017

This week, I posted How to Work Alone in the Board Game Industry. Find people who will check your work and give you honest negative feedback. Find people who will check your work and give you honest negative feedback. Highways & Byways is in the blind play-testing stage. Click here.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When you put the breadth of it on paper, it becomes more apparent if it will work. And when it is approved, a more comprehensive storyboard is developed to outline all the details of the animated story. It can be used in filmmaking, advertisements, and animation. When laid out, it is similar to a comic strip.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Konstantin Mitrofanov , Chief Product Officer of Belka Games (a studio that has quietly racked up half a billion in revenues) shares practical steps on how they were able to create an organization that is both autonomous and highly successful. The reason is that they lack a product mindset and either can’t or won’t make the right decision.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

Understand how the candidate approaches problems Engineering is a varied and ever changing sector. Understand how the candidate approaches problems Engineering is a varied and ever changing sector. The tools you’re using today may be out of date and forgotten in just a few years. Why would you listen to me?

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

When Cogmind’s first commercial version was released in 2015 , I simultaneously opened the brand new Grid Sage Forums as the main gathering point for the community, a way to share stories, provide feedback, and generally discuss the game. The good old GSG forums!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Rules provide directions on how to execute activities within a game. Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. How do you test your rules? Rules testing in action Advice from Sean. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

However, when people think of storytelling in games, they think of theme, story, art, components, and even box design. This guide comes in five parts: Play-testing storytelling How do we make stories that resonate? Brandon: We spoke a lot last week about how to tell stories in board games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings? using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. is coming out soon. improvements. reaches stability.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Rules provide directions on how to execute activities within a game. Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. How do you make rules? Brandon: Tell me a little about yourself and your projects. Need help on your board game?

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Game Global

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Just a few days after Game Global Digital Summit October 2021 , we had a conversation with Konstantin Savenkov , CEO at Intento , on the release of their latest State of Machine Translation Report and the use of MT in the video game industry. On our side, we have systems to detect how those models change.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

We’re picking up where we left off last week with How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game , so read that if you haven’t had the chance yet. Today, we’ll be focusing on testing game mechanics after you design them. A quick recap: game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. GoPractice is a tool I would have loved to have at the beginning of my product management career and it’s a tool that I love having now, a decade into making and operating free-to-play games.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Play-testing has been really high up on my radar for the last couple of weeks. Between 7 Subtle Player Behaviors You Should Notice When Play-Testing and The Art of the Play Test: Designing Tests and Keeping Records , you might think that’s all I’ve got on my mind.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ve written about How to Find an Artist for Your Board Game , but this time, I thought you’d like hearing from an actual artist! Brandon: Tell me a little about yourself and your projects. Some know exactly what they are looking for and have a great idea of how to communicate it. and Highways & Byways.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2019

As a performance test engineer with keen interesting in front-end performance, I was looking forward to catching up on the latest development, ideas, and approaches in the industry and also hoped to pick up some tips along the way. Use a CDN - 48% of sites still not served from CDN. Recent figures put the split at 52.48

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). This is none of that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

In this case I'm talking about a rather big refactoring of how materials are handled in the GLES2 renderer. Now it was time to make use of those new functions in the C++ bindings. extension will be more widely used, a system of delegation is used in the bindings to access "parent class" functionality.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Why writing rules is different than other kinds of writing How to structure a rule book Making rule books clear and concise Your player’s first experience and your rule book Dealing with rule book skimmers Parting advice. Brandon: Tell me a little about yourself and your projects. I want to help them succeed at telling it well.

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