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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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Last week , I shared with you games I played during my formative years, and how those games made an impact on my taste in boardgames as an adult. I wasn’t expecting to discover the impact those childhood games made on my preferences as an adult. Need help on your board game? So…game plan change!

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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. Most people quit.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

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 ! Need help on your board game? Tasty Humans Had Good Product-Market Fit.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2020

Board games have been wildly successful over the last decade. In a world with abundant entertainment options, including video games, it might seem strange that a throwback hobby has done so well. Much of this success comes from the physical presence provided by board game components. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board gamers are accustomed to handing over hundreds of dollars at a time on board game shopping sprees. If you look on /r/boardgames or Board Game Geek, you can find no shortage of “shelfies” where people have hundreds of board games. What components does it come with?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 9, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. To help us understand the nuances of Reddit, particularly board game Reddit, I’ve brought in Raf Cordero. I wrote for Miniature Market’s Review Corner for a while. What is Reddit?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In fact, I’m not even having to spend a lot of money either – I racked up a lot of points on my travel card. Need help on your board game? Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 23, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. He created all 300 of the original pieces of art in my first game, War Co. , 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

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? Amazon suggests you buy items that resemble what you’ve bought before.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is by no means a small amount to raise, but what’s interesting is that Spirit Island has remained on the Board Game Geek Hotness list off and on for almost three years. Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 16, 2017

When your heart is wrapped up so tightly in what you do, the smallest criticism can feel like a kick in the chest. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I sent out copies of the game to over a dozen reviewers. In Reality, War Co.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today’s post is the last of my “Top 5 Games” series. If you haven’t noticed, the game Pandemic pulled a Jumanji and now we’re living it. But I decided that I would be remiss if I did not include it, as it was the first modern board game and it really reignited my love for board games.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

This is part one of four in the Failure Recovery series in Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. Let’s be real: life doesn’t go from point A to point B like you think it will. Let’s be real: life doesn’t go from point A to point B like you think it will.

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

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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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When I created this blog, I created it to help see creators through the entire game development process. What other factors could be at play?” That means the highs and the lows.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. This method may not be appropriate for every developer, every team, or every game, but it is one I like. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Welcome to the third unit of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. First came Game Development 101 and then came Designing & Developing Your Game. That’s why I’m especially excited to introduce you to unit 3: Marketing & Promoting Your Game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. In my quest to test Highways & Byways 100 more times before I release it to reviewers, I’ve found myself with relatively little to say. I’ve already play-tested this game a ton. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. ” Need help on your board game? ” Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 9, 2017

You must absolutely master it to achieve the financial success you desire when self-publishing a game. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The Fundamentals.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

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. How do you come up with a reliable estimate of how long it takes to make a board game?

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

Whenever I saw a complaint from a game dev pop up on my Twitter feed, I recorded it in Excel. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Something clicked for me.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 27, 2023

Mobile games and gacha mechanics have been closely aligned for a significant time. With this starting to look like a broader trend, more mobile games are likely to follow, but the question remains: why now? Some developers appear unphased by the situation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 4, 2023

game industry work satisfaction survey “It’s time to admit that remote work doesn’t work. What’s striking though is that these same companies resisting fully-remote work, are also the ones that create the core tools for remote workers across all industries. We will share our findings in our next newsletter! in 2012 for $1.2

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 5, 2023

It's the biggest example of video game storytelling in quite some time. As I said in my last GoWR piece (which got quite a lot of reads), it's kind of futile to critique big AAA games. As I said in my last GoWR piece (which got quite a lot of reads), it's kind of futile to critique big AAA games. To a point. It was also.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

.” - Jean-Paul Sartre This is the second part of my It Takes Two review. In the first part , I went on about the lack of family in video games and the danger of paying attention to critics. Now I'll talk about the actual game. This is a really fun game. The entire game changes every few minutes, and it's terrific.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Beta 11 was a huge milestone in Cogmind development, having completed a comprehensive review of all items and their stats and mechanics in order to rebalance where necessary, a process I wrote about in detail last year. The results since then have been great, but what comes next? Lots and lots of fun. They’re that crazy.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

I was too nervous to read Heat Signature reviews for two weeks after launch. years of work, that was all I wanted to hear: I didn’t want to know what their caveats were. Once I calmed down and read them, though, I was delighted: they were not only very positive, but they told entertaining stories and made intelligent points.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Neo6502 is a “Modern Retro Computer” – a brand new single board computer that features a real 6502 microprocessor – designed by Olimex. Rather than the original 6502 , it comes with a modern W65C02S on board. Kind of like what I did with my homebrew Z80 breadboard computer ! What is the Neo6502 like?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The list of games is reproduced below. Steam organises a recurring event called the Steam Next Fest : Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch livestreams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam. You have until the 7th of October 2021 @ 17:00 UTC to test the games!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Recently Apple decided to delay the privacy requirements of iOS 14 until ‘early next year ’ presumably after the mobile game industry uproar became too much. Extending that period of instability makes the hardest and most vital part of the business- making new games- more difficult for a longer period of time.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Brandon is humoring me with a mini game blog series where I give you MY perspective on board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The name alone evokes a lot of feelings in hopeful entrepreneurs and board gamers alike. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Sure, tabletop games made $113 million on Kickstarter in 2016. Kickstarter. ” Well, yeah.

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