Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. At this point, you may be beginning to have some healthy doubts about the benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing a game.

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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

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.

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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? How old are they? How do they talk?

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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. Hard work is awesome, but smart hard work is better. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. That’s how I do things. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. 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. In reality, press releases are well-crafted emails that you send to bloggers and journalists – in our case, those in the board game industry.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 25, 2019

What does board gaming look like in this brave new world 10 years into the future? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. They’re not hard facts and this isn’t a how-to guide. The year is 2029. As Dwight D.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Welcome to the inaugural post of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing.

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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 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. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Something clicked for me.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 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. Know you are not alone. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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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. We worked for years to get featured by Apple.

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CG Spectrum

MARCH 13, 2023

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated and regulations struggle to keep up, global concern has arisen about its place in the creative industries. People have begun questioning the ethics of AI art and what it means for those working or pursuing a creative career, particularly digital painting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Former Disney and NBCU Execituve Talk the Death of the Games-as-App Before going deeper, let us define the terms: Hypercasual games are the bubble gum of the gaming industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Almost 2 years ago, the entire games industry was amazed by the announcement of a gigantic $55M seed round raised by Spyke Games. Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. And pivot that they did. Thus, Tile Busters was born.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 5, 2021

Welcome to the inaugural post of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher! In this series, I’ll be talking about aspects of board game publishing you don’t normally think about. Why board game publishing companies do things that seem weird from the outside?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Hit him up on LinkedIn or twitter and let him know how you liked the post! Recently Apple decided to delay the privacy requirements of iOS 14 until ‘early next year ’ presumably after the mobile game industry uproar became too much. There are also many aspects of the decision that go far beyond the game industry.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 9, 2023

Jack isn’t especially interested in doing so and explains that he’s accustomed to being alone. Jack isn’t especially interested in doing so and explains that he’s accustomed to being alone. Picard actually asked the question about family, and why it’s something we don’t see much of in Trek outside of our beloved found families.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch.

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Game Industry News

APRIL 6, 2023

Episode eight, “Surrender” ( Surrender (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom ) races from plot point to plot point, and while some of the pacing doesn’t quite work, the episode still manages to balance necessary character development with the action. That gloss, unfortunately, takes the form of yet another cliffhanger.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. It's a place to do an enormous amount of work in a short time and mostly deal with hassles like shipping. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. So don’t let small things like not knowing how to code interactive creatives cap your UA output.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Jankom Pog immediately hops on board Team Federation, and Zero doesn’t lag too far behind him. Jankom Pog immediately hops on board Team Federation, and Zero doesn’t lag too far behind him. HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. However, the complicating factor for Dal is that the former Unwanted have even less of a destination in mind than he does.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kobyashi Maru” structures Michael Burnham’s first run in the Big Chair as an exploration of just how far she still has to go to be a good captain, but the episode acknowledges that she isn’t on the only one. Saru also continues to struggle with his competing desires to return and make a home of Kaminar and to return to his home on Discovery.

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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

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

JULY 29, 2019

Board gaming has a long, storied history that goes back to ancient times. You can find old games of Ur, Senet, and Chess carved out of stone and buried in tombs. Indeed, the modern board game landscape that we know and love is only about as old as Catan , which came out in 1995. Need help on your board game?

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ensigns will take on senior officer positions while senior officers will find themselves living and working below decks. Nothing unifies Mariner and Captain Freeman as readily as a common enemy, and this week we certainly get that in “ I, Excretus ,” which ostensibly pits the Lower Deckers against the bridge crew to test their competence.

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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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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The name alone evokes a lot of feelings in hopeful entrepreneurs and board gamers alike. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That is how it works when you look at it from a distance. Kickstarter. ” Well, yeah.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. 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. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? How can you tell stories through games?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the most intricate and complex parts of the board game business. In fact, I’ve written about a few times: a crash course on the concepts , how to prepare for the costs , and a personal story of how hard it was to fulfill War Co. Need help on your board game? They delivered!

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. From a revenue dip in the post-COVID era to the removal of paid loot boxes, Brawl Stars has faced obstacles.

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