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

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. Yet if there were a single thing that self-publishers regularly fail at, it’s marketing. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 19, 2019

“It must be great to be your own boss!” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What goes unseen is that I’m juggling a full-time day job, the marketing agency, and board game projects like Tasty Humans.

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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 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the last of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Today I’ll be talking about how to check your work.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

The big, fun news in the gaming world recently was that it looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short, owned by Hasbro) was going to drastically change the Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons. It's a really incomprehensible, inside-baseball story, but it's also really interesting if you're into games or business.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In order to self-publish a board game, you will have a lot of responsibilities. These responsibilities include marketing, sales, fulfillment, accounting, and…oh yeah…designing the game. Need help on your board game? There is no one to run your ideas by. ForeverAlone.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 18, 2018

Board game conventions are the flashiest events in board gaming. They are wonderful gathering places for board gamers. It should come as no surprise that many game creators go to conventions to pick up customers. Need help on your board game? You can buy it here now. Parting Advice.

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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. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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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? 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

MARCH 2, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Self-publishing a board game for the first time is an incredibly disorienting and complicated experience. Need help on your board game? My first game was War Co.

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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. 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? Good to have you on as well, Will!

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. What makes these strange hybrid “casino battler” games tick? And this isn’t a one-off anomaly. How To Play?

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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. One of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship is knowing when to change your mindset. Need help on your board game? In fact, I had no real understanding of the board game industry as a whole.

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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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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So what I’m interested in is: what needs fixing to make it a game I enjoy? To be competent at chess – not even good – you need to at minimum check over every piece on the board, all the squares it could move to, what it could potentially capture, and what could capture it in response if it did so.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2017

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

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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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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul! Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And while those two titles dominate the top charts, Playrix road to the top started a long time ago with a non-assuming little game know as Township. And while those two titles dominate the top charts, Playrix road to the top started a long time ago with a non-assuming little game know as Township. All revenue is net.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Some content, I just record and publish. Funding is just the beginning. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

The game released worldwide just this past month (after spending well over two years in various stages of soft-launch) and is starting to rank in the Top 500 grossing charts on iPhone. This has led to the rise of vertically integrated players like AppLovin, whose games now regularly rank in Top 200 Grossing charts.

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