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Brand Game Development
APRIL 20, 2018
Today marks the conclusion of Dev Diary: Lessons Learned through the Making of Highways & Byways. This is the last Dev Diary. You may be asking: why stop the Dev Diary now? What comes next? Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game is still going to continue.
Brand Game Development
APRIL 7, 2017
I’m trying something different on the Dev Diary. Important context information, yes, but that’s not what I set out to do with this series. My hope with the Dev Diary series is that by being really direct and transparent about my own development experiences, you’ll see how I respond to real problems.
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Brand Game Development
MARCH 30, 2018
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. However, I think it’s better to write openly and directly about what is one of the scariest thing creators can encounter: Kickstarter launches. I talked about that last week. Click here.
Yobob Games
JANUARY 6, 2023
I just knew I needed my next game to be bigger than my previous if I wanted to be a game designer full time. The advice from other devs was to make small games and grow your fan base. So, I thought, my next game has to be bigger and people have to care about Harvest Island. That’s what I did for my recent trailer.
Brand Game Development
JULY 1, 2019
In my first Designer Diary post for Tasty Humans , I talked about the mechanics of dropping shapes (which represent the titular “Tasty Humans”) in order to fill up the stomach of the each player’s monster. Next, I needed to figure out what would work best as an objective. What determines the satisfaction level of their monster?
Brand Game Development
JULY 28, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. That last one happened to me on Wednesday. Part of what makes Tired Mode so devastating is condition 2: “you are unable to recognize your own inability to effectively perform mental work.”
Brand Game Development
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. How do you come up with a reliable estimate of how long it takes to make a board game? Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. Knowing the difference can save your reputation.
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