Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

You need it for five reasons: It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense. It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense. With the physical prototype in my home right now, play-testing is going much, much, much faster.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. Game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life. What are game mechanics?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Not only does it help you demystify some of the speech you hear when you get into gaming, but it also has implications that could affect how you classify your website, categorize your Kickstarter campaign, or target an audience on social media or for advertising. What are hobby board games? Hobby board gamers have a passion.

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Games Art Media Game Design 130

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is a media strategist, quantitative marketer, and author who has spent his career working for transformative consumer technology and media companies. Prediction #3 Broadening of Media Mixes. This final prediction of 2021 is written by Eric Benjamin Seufert. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Mnenad

JANUARY 14, 2020

  So I remember exactly how my first prototype looked like. I don’t remember anymore how it came to the decision to make it Countryball themed, but I guess the sheer number of possibilities, both in game mechanics and design choices, have led to that decision.  

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

If you’re the kind of creator who has a few prototype board games in your closet somewhere, consider playing one of them with a few game designers. Order a professional physical prototype of one of your board games. Experiment with a theme or mechanics you’ve never used. Card games count, too! My first game, War Co.

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Dev Prototyping Games Game Design 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

This is true that a lot of game studios around the world owe their start in mobile gaming to Hypercasual games: They started with only a few people by prototyping fast which turned into games that gained hundreds of millions of downloads (although published by someone else). Apple’s privacy-related changes made this much more difficult.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. Without friends, family or any form of external support it can be really hard at times.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

2: I did not order a prototype prior to manufacturing from the same company that printed. Even after finding out about the hobby board game market, I still focused primarily on an untargeted social media approach. 9: My social media approach was untargeted and used suboptimal content. See which Kickstarters get backed.

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Point and Click Media Games Art 130

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Brandon: That’s a lot of different projects over a lot of different forms of media. If you’re a designer seeking a publisher, you will essentially need a solid prototype, a great sales sheet, and an awesome pitch. Your theme is that critical in order to nail down some concepts first, before diving into game mechanics.

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Art Games Development Prototyping 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated. It's mostly "safe for work" even if the actual game is not.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

– a card game (print & play) that was primarily a study of implementing a card-flip mechanic (where cards had different effects depending on which side is face-up) that ended up being fun enough to at least make it publicly available. Some are just a few lines of an idea, some are in design, others are being prototyped.

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Prototyping Games Playtesting Dev 130

Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches. Media artists can turn large quantities of information into nodes of color, filling rooms and covering buildings with their artwork.

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