Tom Francis

MAY 27, 2023

Board setup is random with some attempt at balance, plus a balancing rule: One player chooses which corner to start in, then the other player takes the first turn. The Dark Horse also lets you trample (move options may be used as attacks), the Pale Horse is more nimble (move to any unoccupied space in range 2).

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

The sheer confidence of steering clear of the beaten track and creating something truly original, comes from experience gained outside the world of video game development. This time around we’re putting a lot more time and resources into playtesting and catching problems early.”

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. It comes with challenges like tight deadlines, production obstacles, publisher pressures, and long work hours, which are just a glimpse of every developer’s hurdles. Many newbies ask the question, what are the stages of game development ?

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting started with your first NFT game development venture can be interesting. But is the NFT game development market worth entering? The global play-to-earn (P2E) NFT games market is predicted to reach $3.6 So, yes – NFT game development is worth it. But what are NFT games? billion by 2028.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 29, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. If you don’t consistently work to improve, you won’t make the game you want to make. Finding the balance is difficult, and I think many creatives lean too much into the former category.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of working alone in the board game industry. Yet I’m a bit of an odd beast in the board game development world since most people prefer to work in teams. Need help on your board game? I’m a designer, and I do development and social media outreach.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Allow me to introduce you to Jeff Beck of Grandpa Beck’s Games. You might know their company through Cover Your Assets , their breakout game. It is also currently on Kickstarter! Action Cards.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

However, it still took a nudge from a dreadful experience in an Applied Mathematics class to propel him to switch from Computer Science to Game Design. In 2022, a life-threatening incident could have derailed his dreams, but his passion for expressing his creativity through game development fueled his recovery, leaving his physicians in awe.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This approach is usually integrated into games with lots of space and lets players drive the narrative of the game. Process of Level Designing and Game Development 1. Playtesting Playtesting involves testing a game with real players to assess its design, functionality, and entertainment value.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One simple number to keep in mind is 6 months: this is how long it took one game studio to build the same infrastructure on AWS that they could have achieved with Flaneer in a day. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS NICE DCV to let you stream your software in the best conditions, up to 4 screens in 4K! Why is it cool?

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Balancing the difficulty for a wide range of players will be a b h. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. Paint a picture of the final game. I’m pretty sure we’ll be doing some more playtests in the near future. Meanwhile, here’s a photo of the trippy live gaming gig: Thanks Dev-Play, thanks Clujotronic.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

This is a more business-oriented aspect of game development that we rarely see, and frankly, an aspect we rarely associate with DF either. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too. 2017 Episode 09: "One Shot" shows the VR game nearing completion and new hire James Marion.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

This is the responsibility of a game backend. Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed AWS service that provides a backend for game developers, allowing them to focus on building their game and leave managing and scaling cloud infrastructure to GameSparks. In this sample, we use Amazon GameSparks for this purpose.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. So often, when we’re balancing our designs , it’s because we’re trying to nail down board game pacing. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In my Tasty Humans Designer Diary posts so far, I have focused on the puzzle aspect of the game. Not to mention it organically balances the game by attaching a cost to tiles that are strictly better.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch. In my playtests, it felt like the best tactic is to try to trap the cop in the corner with your body while the AIs coordinate a big orgy that gives you a huge payout.

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