Brand Game Development

MARCH 9, 2020

.” Besides, when we – as gamers and game developers – put aside our frustration for a moment, we can actually see Monopoly for what it is: a solid concept with bad execution. There are a lot of questionable game design decisions that, if corrected, could have made for a fantastic game.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 14, 2019

The rules could not possibly be simpler, and yet the strategy of the game gets pretty heady. There are lots of reasons I love, love, love this game. For the purposes of this article, though, we’ll be discussing four lessons for board game designers to take away from it. Physical game presence counts for a lot.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Worker placement is a very simple concept with really profound implications. There is a reason this mechanic is present in many BGG Top 100 Games such as Viticulture , Caverna , A Feast for Odin , and Agricola. It’s another worker placement fantasy board game with good components. This is not an insult.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

As I mentioned, this being my first game, I was learning not only how to game develop but also the language of game design. I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.” Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Play-test with game designers. Let’s say you’ve made light games.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As I mentioned, this being my first game, I was learning not only how to game develop but also the language of game design. I feel now I’m a better game designer, because I had the time and space to work on it solo.” Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It’s usually easier to start with concepts from cut content, since we’d already started developing it before we realized it wasn’t high enough priority to finish. The concept behind the old stuff might not fit or might not be fun anymore because the game design went a different direction from when we originally came up with the cut content.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Through this unique online network, Alan connected with Advanced Concept Art Course graduate Dogyeong (Do) Lee and Game Design Course graduate Alexios Vasilakis who both joined the Overwrite Interactive team. The game's narrative was inspired by the strong women in Alan's life. for the pixel artist to use as a base.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Sometimes you might be able to edge an unlikely one into the game, maybe there’s some creative way to do it, or preserve the concept in some other way, but never at the expense of compromising on vision (or really many other parts of the philosophy we’ll be covering here!). I want my games to be challenging but fair.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 3, 2019

The concept is simple: through gamification, you take the elements we associate with games – point scoring, competition, rules – and apply them to something else. Businesses have fallen in love with this concept because they’ve found that gamification works wonders for motivating people. What’s the point?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Developed by Alexander Khoroshavin (Alex Goodwin) and a small team, the game centers around an elderly healer named Kazimir, who journeys through a whale-worshiping fantasy land to heal his ‘soul wound’. I used to attend a lot of game development events and conferences, but now I’m more interested in just focusing on making games.”

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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.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We wanted games that were within our wheelhouse of strategy games, but provided a diverse portfolio with which we could more safely enter a turbulent market”, explains Kusters. That concept had been floating around the studio since 2017. The second game was Solium Infernum. One was an easy choice, Jumplight Odyssey.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Operational failures come from a problem in your plan’s implementation, but not necessarily the core concepts of your plan. Creating a board game for Kickstarter is a process which involves the following sub-processes: Game Development Sub-Processes. If the audience shows passion and interest, continue to game design.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2023

When I say depth, I mean “pick a specialty” - systems design, combat design, level design, UX design, technical design, etc. Depth to me is understanding the core concepts and nuance of a specific form of design, not experience with engines or tools or whatever. This is depth of knowledge to me.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We were really inspired by watching streamers like Ludwig tackle games like Jump King and Getting Over It,” says Isaac Iozzi, acting as director and game designer on Ascending Inferno. Left: the original concept art for the logo, right: the final logo. “Because of that, burnout tends to sneak up on us.” “We experience.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This week while working on my current board game design, a lot of things have come into focus. Now it’s time to start tweaking board game rules. This is where board game design often becomes very tricky. Need help on your board game? Playtest a Ton. If a rule is confusing, drop it.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Where in an MMORPG world, that concept is very straightforward.

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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. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototypes ranged from paper-and-pencil to full-on Game Crafter $100+ sets. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It is a mix of the objective of your game and the feelings you want it to evoke. Final Thoughts.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are a number of clever and reasonable ways to work around these conflicting concepts. As a design exercise, can you think of other methods of a final FPS boss fight that maintains the boss's humanity but still makes it reasonably engaging? Here are a few general methods of doing this that I thought of off the top of my head.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Now that we’ve accepted that theme and mechanics are imaginary, abstract concepts, let’s put them to use. It’s easiest to think of theme first – “it’s going to be a scifi, zero-sum game set in crapsack corporate dystopia.” Game design starts with theme and ends with theme, but most of the time is spent in mechanics.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It wasn’t until I tried to program this in my own chess game that I realised this is already three special cases, for the least exciting unit in the game. That would already have me going back to the drawing board of a game concept to see if there’s a more elegant way of hitting the design goals.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 29, 2019

Made in 1960, Life is one of the most popular board games of all time. The basic idea is that you want to end the game with more assets than anyone else. The rules are different in every version, but the concepts stay the same – you spin the spinner and make a handful of key decisions at intersections. Worth remembering!

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Moonmana

AUGUST 11, 2022

It is fair to say that any video game is a work of art. It requires game developers and designers to put a good deal of time and effort into delivering 2D concept art for a game. . Opting for 2D game art outsourcing is the right solution. Developing an impressive game is not cheap. 5 minutes read.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

But Acquire did it better than any other game out there. Reiner Knizia is an absurdly prolific board game designer who is still making board games today. He’s basically the David Bowie of board games. What makes this game so good? Thousands of board games existed before the year 1995.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

After a year of documenting the Highways & Byways development process through the Dev Diary, this is not the post I wanted to write. You can always do more outreach, but I wound up working with the super cool people behind Board Game Design Lab and We’re Not Wizards. Was it the basic concept?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ve split it into five sections for your convenience: How Ben, Sarah, and Will Got Started How Working in a Team Feels The Downsides of Teamwork Communication in a Team Advice for New Game Devs. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it.

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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. This week, I posted the first article in my 19-part suite on game design. It’s called How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game. ” Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

At one point I helped King open their Berlin office, interviewing potential members of their initial dev team. An example could be: "The project you're currently on is getting close to the first Beta test, and you've just finished implementing an important game system, the Skill Tree. How would you approach this?"

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

However, I think it’s also promising evidence that there is an appetite out there for this content – a desire to view and evaluate gaming through the lens of impairment and exclusion. That’s a conclusion that should matter to any budding game designer, because it suggests what I believe to be a huge opportunity for the whole sector.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release.

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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. Blue Rabbit game ).

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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. Between 7 Subtle Player Behaviors You Should Notice When Play-Testing and The Art of the Play Test: Designing Tests and Keeping Records , you might think that’s all I’ve got on my mind.

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