Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Creating board games takes an enormous amount of time and effort. The simple fact is that there are a lot of distinct tasks that have to be handled to turn a game from an idea into reality. This is why I urge each new board game designer to share the workload , delegating tasks to a team instead of doing them all alone.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and one of them was about how much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 24, 2023

Splenbit is a part-time solo game developer, known for his game Blocks Tracks Trains. He obtained a doctorate in Informatics and Robotics and has been working as a software developer on various projects since 2009. And that’s what game development is to him at the moment, a hobby.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 31, 2020

After an enormous amount of work creating, testing, and promoting your board game, it’s time to send it off to the printers. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A Few Board Game Printers You Can Contact.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Join us as we journey back in time to explore the roots of Dean’s entrepreneurial success. Around the same time, he delved into the world of video games, playing titles like GTA, Scarface, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Call of Duty, and FIFA. One of the stories I wrote was a game. That game is now Hiru.”

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

As the coronavirus lockdown continues, a lot of people are having a hard time getting their board game fix. The ability to play board games online, however, has never been easier. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you stay in the board game industry for long enough, you will hear your fair share of conventional wisdom. Board gamers like minis. Conventions are good for promoting your game. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 29, 2017

The way you value your game is way different than how everybody else will. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. There are a lot of different lenses through which you can view board games. CC BY-SA 2.0, License , Source ).

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

A role that she holds dear and that inspired her to establish her company Kucheza Gaming. In 2020 she decided to channel her decade-plus entrepreneurial experience into her current venture leaving everything behind to focus on gaming. She recalls playing table tennis and tabletop games such as Ludo, Chess, Draft and Monopoly.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Play-testing is the most important part of board game design. It’s how you turn rough, raw ideas into polished, ready-to-play games. ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Visit your local game store.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 8, 2019

Making board games is really difficult. A lot of people who decide to make board games can’t tell the difference between the right and wrong reasons to make a board game. I want to talk about this in depth today because your motivations will seep into everything you do – for better or for worse.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Everybody wants to be a board game designer these days. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Many board game designers are competent in every aspect of board game design, except for testing the premises of their ideas.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last year, Everdell by Starling Games raised nearly half a million dollars on Kickstarter. It has remained a popular board game since, regularly topping out the Board Game Geek Hotness and showing up multiple times as a giveaway prize in Pangea contests. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

It’s tempting to think that the analog nature of board games would preclude live-streaming, but this is not the case. Live-streaming board games can be done with digital tools such as Tabletop Simulator or video cameras capturing gameplay on the physical tabletop. Need help on your board game?

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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 19, 2018

For the last few years, we’ve been living through a glorious age: the Great Board Game Renaissance. In a world aglow with smartphones, tablets, and those annoying billboards that change every five seconds on the side of the road, analog gaming has become a welcome retreat for millions. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

You’ve spent tons of time and effort on brainstorming, developing, testing, marketing, networking, and campaigning. When your Kickstarter successfully funded, it seemed like the apotheosis of your board game career. But with great money, comes great responsibility… Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 11, 2019

It occurred to me shortly after I wrote that article that many people approach board games with the intention of making money, but not necessarily making games as an end to itself. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this, and you can certainly make good money producing board games. Think long-term.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 9, 2023

“After a few days of earnest discussion, ideation and research, we developed a concept called Escape Mail. We would send people around the world – dealing with the same pandemic as us – an escape game in the mail! They want something more than just a ‘fun time’. “So And just like that Escape Mail was born.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Board games can be about all sorts of things. Games, at their core, might just be a series of mechanics and rules, but themes keep us from feeling like we’re playing out the logical conclusion of mathematical functions. Need help on your board game? Five Levels of Communication through Game Development.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Spend any amount of time with a marketing expert talking about your business, and you’ll find that one of the first questions they ask – if not the first – is “what’s your target audience?”

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Brand Game Development

MAY 6, 2019

Lately, I’ve been talking about the hard truths of the board game business. You can’t just make the board game you want. You have to make the board game other people want. Need help on your board game? I didn’t get into the board game business by being a human calculator.

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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? Find games like yours. Create a private list.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

For the first time since the beginning of the year, I took real time off. I realized that in my push to create Highways & Byways , I’ve neglected six very powerful background skills that make game developers great. Game development is about more than just game development, folks.

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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. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Press Releases vs. Everything Else.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

The concept is simple: through gamification, you take the elements we associate with games – point scoring, competition, rules – and apply them to something else. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This cycle then repeats.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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. 4 Clever Ways to Market Your Board Game Online for $30.00.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Fulfillment is one of the trickiest parts of any board game Kickstarter. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Scenario 1: You fulfill the game yourself using USPS even for international packages. The inventory all looks neat.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now !

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 4, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In the wee hours of the morning last Friday night, James Masino delivered the first serious draft of Highways & Byways board art. 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 6, 2017

Board games are complex projects. Every board game is unique. You can’t even directly compare your board game to other board games. To know whether your board game is complete, you have to use qualitative metrics. Board game quality testing is very subjective.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 30, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Even if you’re just making a simple board game for the first time, you have to treat any Kickstarter campaign like a business. Want a big game made cheaply? Take your time.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of playing Terraforming Mars for the first time. I am pleased to say that it is an absolutely fantastic game that’s worth purchasing. I consider this to really valuable for learning game design simply because there is so much going on. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 21, 2019

It’s time to talk about Pandemic – one of the greatest games ever made. Pandemic is an evergreen game with a multitude of variants and legacy games. It’s also the first cooperative game for a lot of gamers. Need help on your board game? This is basically a time limit.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted A Crash Course on Selling Board Games , which is my way of helping demystify that which terrifies many first-time game developers. Click here.

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