Brand Game Development

MAY 20, 2019

A lot of board game creators ask the same question: “how do you fund your board game on Kickstarter?” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You are truly the master of your own destiny.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In March of 2019, Paladins of the West Kingdom by Garphill Games raised nearly a million New Zealand dollars (around $600,000 USD) on Kickstarter. Ever since then, Paladins of the West Kingdom has been on the Board Game Geek Hotness list nearly every time I’ve checked. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Box art is incredibly important in the board game industry. Not only are board game boxes beautiful, they are also iconic. People love looking at board game boxes – just check out Instagram sometime. There are whole accounts dedicated to showing off board game boxes!

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 4, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Seeing Your Childhood Games with Older Eyes. What I didn’t expect, however, was just how well many of my childhood games held up. spaces, passing the board start, and others.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Whether you’re just spreading the word about one game or whether you’re building a whole long-lasting business from scratch, you should consider advertising as part of a larger marketing plan.

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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. The Kucheza family Bukola’s childhood was filled with a lot more physical playing than video games.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 27, 2020

It has since remained a hot game on Board Game Geek and a perennial favorite in Pangea Games board game giveaways! So with that in mind, what can we learn from this award-winning board game with a silly name? Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Over the last couple of weeks of Behind the Scenes: Lessons from a Kickstarter Board Game Publisher , I’ve talked about some of the strange goings-on I’ve noticed in the board game industry. Need help on your board game? Google tweaks your results based on what you click.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Leder Games really nailed it when they came out with their board game Root in 2018. It’s broken into and remained within the Board Game Geek top 50. Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game? So what exactly is Root ? Root is complex.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Game development is a marathon. It takes at least a year, at the bare minimum, to take a board game idea and turn into a ready-to-sell product. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Lots of people make games. Production.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 19, 2021

If you want somebody to take care of freight entirely on your behalf, then it still makes sense to hire a freight broker. They have hard-won know-how that’s irreplaceable.But if you want to save a bit of cash or exercise a wider control over your business operations, then freight marketplaces are the way to go.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Sagrada is one of my recent favorite board games. It is fundamentally a pretty simple game, but it has a lot of really endearing qualities. The dice are bright and pretty, as are the puzzle boards on which you build stained glass arrangements of dice. Need help on your board game? Got all that?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Within the board game community, there is no site that has shaken up the industry more than Kickstarter. While BoardGameGeek has been around for almost 17 years and remains the unquestioned mecca of the board game community, nothing has had more influence on board games recently than Kickstarter.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Launching a board game Kickstarter requires the coordination of an enormous amount of effort, time, and talent. The one exception to that rule: the launch day of your Kickstarter campaign. 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

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For the inaugural post in my series of Game Breakdowns, I want to talk about the perineal /r/boardgames choice for “2p game to play with my girlfriend.” It’s the perfect game to share with someone who only has a tangential interest in board games, or a “gateway gamer”. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In those days, executive appointments from outside the gaming industry were still rare. His history working for consumer brands like Pepsi, Haagen Dazs, and cake outfit Sara Lee was an easy opportunity for any journalist who wanted to know what it took to run a big gaming operation, if not experience with actual games.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 16, 2018

About a year ago, I wrote How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. It fits in beautifully with the Marketing & Promoting Your Game series of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. Need help on your board game? Marketing is a slow dance. Good for them!

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

Almost two years ago today, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You need to invest in your games, your business, and yourself.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 6, 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 ?” That’s what I’ll be talking about in this post. Need help on your board game? Provide customer support. Customer Service Rules.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. The board game review process is one of the most important parts of game development. Need help on your board game? Why are board game reviews important?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 8, 2017

A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of playing 5-Minute Dungeon at the friendly local gaming store for the first time. This game got us rowdier than ever before and it was awesome! 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In fact, I’ve been thinking this week that in the absence of major game development or logistics challenges, this will be the defining challenge of this Kickstarter campaign. 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? You know what I’ve noticed?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Board game conventions have a certain mystique to them. Many board gamers absolutely adore going to big conventions such as Gen Con, Essen, or UKGE. As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? It always is. Who is Emelie?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail stores, it helps to set small, achievable goals. What could be a more achievable goal than getting in one store? Just one board game in one board game store! Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter!

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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? What Are Cons Good/Bad For?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Twilight Struggle is the golden child of the board game community, having reigned at the top of the Board Game Geek’s ranking system for an extremely long time before being dethroned by Pandemic Legacy. What’s more, it takes about ten three-hour games to totally understand it. Need help on your board game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article discusses and compares male and female stereotypes in gaming for the purpose of analyzing common societal perceptions. Who is your target audience? This is a much-dreaded question game developers ask themselves at every stage of game development. A very casual summary of the casual puzzle player demographics.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

As the Managing Director of South African-based Alkemaiz Games, she recalls how people were amazed by her artistic talents as a child. What was easy for her wasn’t easy for everyone else. She said, “Watch what I do and follow.” The establishment of Alkemaiz Games coincided with the development of Rapz.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The silver lining here being that if you fulfill on time, you will impress your backers and they will remember you. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What’s Fulfillment? Warehousing Your Inventory. No one can.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

Instead of leaving you to Google and experiment on your own, I’ll share a few experiences I’ve had. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Last but not least, open a separate bank account for your business. In the U.S.,

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

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. Need help on your board game? Be extremely clear about your goals. Write them down.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article on how to prepare for the cost of board game fulfillment. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Don’t try to fulfill your game on your own if you have more than 200 people to send to at once.

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