Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Because board games are complicated systems, you will also reach this point one day. You’ll reach a point where there is nothing left to do but tweak the game.

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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. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. James Masino delivered board art. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? I have play-testing on the brain.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Getting Started Getting Noticed Refining Your Approach Using Twitter for More than Just Tweeting Key Takeaways for Game Devs. I won’t get into the details of where to go and what to click. Keep your bio to the point.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. This is what you can expect before you reach that point. Early play-testing feels more like science than art. I’ve got Event Card art. Early play-testing photo.

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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. Click here. Don’t believe a dev who says “I’ve never wanted to flip the table because of some useless play-testing feedback.” Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 21, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Turns out, this week’s development of Highways & Byways illustrates my point pretty well.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 18, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just this last week, a lot of things finally clicked. Just this last week, a lot of things finally clicked. The whole point of the game is to take an epic road trip. Highways & Byways Visuals.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. In fact, I think the point of diminishing return is somewhere in the dozens before your own personal experimentation and experience teaches you more than broad exposure to games will.

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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. Click here. I wait until I have all the art assets I need. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Period, point blank. The board art was then recycled for the Byway cards, which reference specific places on the board.

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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. Click here. I’m also very skeptical about the return on investment that game devs can expect from a typical con. Still need minor rule, art, event, and component tweaks. You’ll be okay.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 9, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Get your game to a really professional point, then start testing with strangers. Key Takeaways for Game Devs.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 11, 2018

I’d love to make a true point-and-click adventure in real 3D (not that fake 2D/3D). Do you think a bigger marketing campaign would have increased revenue to the point of making enough money to fully fund the next game? I figured that if you designed a really good point-and-click game, people would respond.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Pay: Artists make art for a living! Since every project is different, you’ll probably want to make an art budget and set aside some cash and get a variety of quotes from different artists. Pay attention to these things.

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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. Click here. This is actually separate from the previous point. Bear in mind that by this point, I’d already failed at Kickstarter once. 8: I did not finish the box art before the campaign.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, you can subscribe here. If you haven’t yet, read the articles on Budget Viability , Milestones , Anti-Bullet-Points , and A Good Pitch.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 12, 2020

These four nostalgic game mechanics are: Dynamic character roles Great art or colors Incorporates a clicking noise Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety. Person with the highest point count wins. Point counts are gathered from points played on your character and/or how advantageously you marry. Let’s Play.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Still, someone involved in that project had to have become an amateur historian at some point.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You get someone to do the art for your game. Unless you’re really talented, you shouldn’t do art for your own game. Sure, you can have broader goals of “be a good game dev” and “make this game a real thing.” Have an understanding of what it takes to get from point A to point B.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 12, 2018

I'd love to make a true point-and-click adventure in real 3D (not that fake 2D/3D). Doing point-and-click adventures at breakeven doesn't do that, and I think that's always been a motivator of mine. I figured that if you designed a really good point-and-click game, people would respond.

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Point and Click Writing Build Dev 100

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! I believe writing a rule is very much an art form. This manifests itself as point-to-point movement on a highway map of the United States. Brandon: Some of the rules that regulate the point-to-point movement are “you may move up to six (6) spaces per turn.

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Point and Click Games Mechanics Writing 130

PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. Or if you’re writing a store page or a video script, people click away in seconds.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. At some point along the way, while seeing so many green highway signs pass, I said to myself “this would make a great board game.” Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 21, 2017

– is sort of like Netrunner and Star Realms… Group 4: The Devs Who Make It. Group 5: The Devs Who Don’t Make It. Bloggers have the ability to get people to click on your links at convenient times. They take thousands of dollars for manufacturing alone and thousands more for art.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

ALSO earn the most points by the end of the game. The cards are projects, which act as event cards you can play to get points and try to terraform Mars. At that point, the “Production Phase” begins. Personally, I like the art on the cards. Like Marrying Mr. Darcy, there are multiple ways to earn points.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Description from Board Game Geek. Splendor – $38.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

After months of toiling in a secluded attic, the last weeks of which were particularly grueling, we finally took Second Hand to its first public showings: first to Dev-Play in Bucharest and shortly thereafter to Clujotronic in our very own Cluj. It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Color me excited!

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Point and Click Dev Demo Playtesting 52

Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This involves creating or buying art, doing accessibility testing, doing play-testing for factors not directly related to gameplay per se , buying samples, preparing the game for manufacturing, and manufacturing itself. There is also the matter of setting a price point that works for folks. Board Game Development: Game Production.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view! You can read more about that by clicking on any of these articles. We then paste our art into their files and make sure everything lines up. The post How We Printed the Tasty Humans Board Game Kickstarter appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Lastly, and somewhat tied to the second point, is the changing team members. Dynamic character roles Great art or colors Incorporates a clicking noise Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety . The post Board Game Review: Pandemic appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Sometimes I just want to feel good about myself.).

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Please note that to get to 90% complete, you probably need to finish all or almost all your art before you go to Kickstarter. Bonus points if they are big-name reviewers. The magic of email is that lots of people tend to click on links that they see in there. Tell people exactly what’s in the box. Share your story.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! Sean: Guidelines for writing good rules really boils down to learning the art of instruction and communication. I’d say the main tool set for understanding and wielding that art form is empathy. I ended up implementing a light action point system to increase number of player choices.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

This talk highlights important points about functional programming, including advantages and disadvantages, brushes over some theoretical concepts, and shows how those can be applied when programming in GDScript. Talk: Visual Vertical Slice - Not just concept art, but not yet a demo | Matejs Balodis. Try 3D adventure games! x features.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

There has been great progress in the world of business that has turned marketing from an art to a science, but there is still an element of ambiguity that will never be nailed down quite like accounting, product development, quality assurance, finance, or even management. This blog also generates leads.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. A key point: Most of the games you see aren't ripoffs, aren't cheap or thrown together. All I want to point out is that if there is a problem here, it's way bigger than video games. It's absurd!

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