Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last week, I posted A Crash Course in Games , where I acted as a tour guide to the board game industry, covering much of the contextual information you’ll need to make games. Let’s pick up from there and talk about what specifically goes into making a game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

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. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. ” Well, yeah.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 9, 2018

Last week, I talked about why it’s so hard to get noticed online , covering some steps you can take to more effectively draw attention. You need to make people interested in what you have to say and what you have to offer. Need help on your board game? Figure out your audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game. The current game could continue to grow for a while, but its current economic policies are fundamentally unsustainable.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

On March 16th, in the midst of a global pandemic, Supercell dropped a new game: Hay Day Pop (HDP). The minute a supercell game is released, a thousand slack notifications go off. Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

We continue our series of articles about the different roles in the video game localization industry. Why game localizer and not just “translator”? Ultimately, the aim is to make the game accessible to a wider market without ruining the game experience that the developer intended.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Starting by telling you about the art may seem superficial, and maybe it is, but the art in this game is so notable—such a breakthrough—that I think it deserves special attention. Guilty Gear Xrd is far and away the #1 best use of 3D that looks like 2D I have ever seen in a video game. Guilty Gear Xrd is great.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent, but powerful newsletter. Before you jump in, let us sum up how we arrived to the predictions. This analysis is written by Miikka Ahonen , Niek Tuerlings and yours truly. Puzzle Games Continued to Grow.

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