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A Beginner’s Guide to Multiplayer Game Development

iXie gaming

Prototyping  Create a minimum viable product or a prototype to assess your multiplayer game’s core mechanics. Through prototyping, you can identify possible issues early. During this phase, frequent iteration and playtesting are crucial in finetuning the multiplayer experience. 

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish Board Games or Not?

Brand Game Development

You do the game development and playtesting. You are quality assurance. You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. If you self-publish, there will be enormous demands on your time. You go find the art.

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