Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Although I keep an eye on general short-term trends in dev work throughout the weeks and months, the biggest revelations often don’t come until year’s end when viewed in aggregate, and in the context of previous years, once everything is integrated into the many graphs I use to monitor long-term progress/work. Including art!

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It involves creating mechanics that determine how players interact with the game. You’ll probably find yourself thinking about advertising, conventions, selling to distributors, and direct selling to customers. The post A Crash Course in Board Game Development appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Final Thoughts.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Create a feedback form and online demo, then advertise and offer prizes. You can then advertise your print-and-play or Tabletop Simulator demo, offering prizes to people who submit their feedback. The post 6 Ways to Find Play-Testers for Your New Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Maybe you work strange hours.

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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. You can do this through passive means such as advertising or active means such as social media and conventions. The post How to Make Board Games for a New Audience appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. 10: My attempts at advertising were ineffective and untested. I didn’t have a clear sense of target market and I did not polish the advertisements. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Some common marketing strategies include paid advertising, relationship marketing (customer loyalty), undercover/stealth marketing, cause marketing, word-of-mouth, and internet marketing. I’ve mentioned this before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev and A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. They are also the marketing used to promote them – the advertising and the footwork of the game developers who made them.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Not only does it help you demystify some of the speech you hear when you get into gaming, but it also has implications that could affect how you classify your website, categorize your Kickstarter campaign, or target an audience on social media or for advertising. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. What are hobby board games?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. Will CPMs fall enough to offset the impact on CPIs for most advertisers? Possibly, for some advertisers. Of course, acquisition will become more difficult for many advertisers, too. Not really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The dev team needs to be experienced with HTML5 and web tech — the know-how to make a game load quickly and have decent quality — even if it’s just a “web game”. Telegram will begin to have a better “app store” for discovery of new releases, and the cross-promo and advertising ecosystem will expand and mature.

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Game Dev Unchained

APRIL 30, 2024

Francisco, with his roots deeply embedded in marketing and advertising, found his transition to game development a natural progression of his artistic journey. The premise was simple yet revolutionary: to design a game where the mechanics themselves were driven by music and sound effects.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The usage of spells, tactics, and magic items : Mechanics reminiscent of classic puzzle game boosters, but with more limited uses. Puzzle RPGs where the real meat is on the RPG and hero collection mechanics. And the meta component outside the main puzzle gameplay is more limited. In theory, an IP could help lower a bit the CPIs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism. Before jumping into how they work, it’s worth understanding why Passes have become such a popular feature among devs and players. Some popular mechanisms for that are a Pass-XP acquisition boost or premium Pass-exclusive tasks.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile gaming megatrends Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo. Mobile ad spending worldwide is going up and shifting faster than ever from traditional channels like TV, OOO into digital. You can then use those signals to give the player what they want and determine who the valuable players are.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

To my mind, the Zeitgeist of mobile gaming in 2019 wasn’t captured in the launch of a game, such as Call of Duty Mobile, or a platform, such as Apple Arcade or Google Stadia, but rather through the egregiously misleading mobile gaming ads that proliferated and saturated advertising channels over the course of the year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

This post is written by Eric Seufert , a strategy consultant and the owner of Mobile Dev Memo In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of events, including a great battle, foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures and gods, natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water. Is the game growing mostly organically?

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Moreover, in the case of sex clubs, the patron himself simultaneously becomes the advertised adventure." L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player. Mitch wrote "Hierosgamos" as a series of textual fragments that allude to cruising, the hanky code, and various game mechanics.

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