Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

There are a ton of perfectly good articles online about how to approach board game publishers. Here are a few examples: How to Pitch Your Board Game to a Publisher How to Pitch (and Not Pitch) Your Game to Stonemaier Games Board game designers are bad at pitching games to publishers. I can help.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Understanding the emotional origin behind people’s connection with board games is very important if you’re a publisher. You’re not just trying to make the greatest worker placement fantasy game…you’re trying to make a game that satisfies the emotional needs of your customers.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

While you can’t make any old game you want and make a phenomenal amount of money doing so , you can observe what’s successful already and put your own spin on it. If sci-fi and fantasy games have been successful for the last 18 months on Kickstarter, you can make your own sci-fi or fantasy game.

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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. I don’t think this was the problem.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The organizers of the Game Industry Conference (which is also in Poznań just after GodotCon) are letting us use their great venue, and it will be a great opportunity to get together with Godot users and core developers (our lead dev Juan Linietsky is coming from Argentina). All core devs as tutors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And Many More… There are so many more seemingly profitable hits — Rocky Rabbit (a PvP battle sim), Fanton Fantasy Football (a soccer/football idle sim), Farm Frens (an idle farming game), MemeFi Club with its clans and raids, the 18+ “dating” and clicker game Pocket Waifu , not to mention thousands of others slowly rising through the charts.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But if you can manage to break through the learning barrier, Warframe can be an incredibly entertaining game to play. Spacelords is a beautiful tactical sci-fi fantasy game with engaging lore and intense action that helps to push the game’s narrative along. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And we and other MUD designers were wondering how to get more of this stuff to happen without having to hand-code it all. We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.” It famously only added any crafting because the dev team saw it in UO during beta.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya). PS5 and Modern Warfare 2 help drive November spending to $6.3

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 23, 2023

Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com My current project is finishing up the writing of my next book on RPG design. Why Did Everything Become an RPG?

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Each game also has an extra-difficult goal, and completing it rewards you with a cherry. (As As of this writing, I've tried all the games, with 8 wins and 2 cherries.) UFO50 was developed by six indie devs over seven years. To be clear, I think this game is a monument, a true accomplishment and a celebration of the art form.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Paths: World of Adia , a fantasy themed tabletop RPG.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. In a past era of game design, we complained when combat games had obligatory stealth sections -- now we have story games with obligatory combat sections.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I'm a broken record about this because the greatest asset of indie game developers is the love from gamers. Anything an indie dev does to anger gamers as a group (a population that includes over half the people on the Earth) must be condemned. Will probably beat 5 or so more games and call it good.) 4 cherries. Book of Mormon ?

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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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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you or someone in your family is looking for a challenging board game in the $50 range, this is an excellent choice! I’ve written at length about Everdell before and why it’s a good game. Long story short, it’s got a cute fantasy theme with really well-executed worker placement mechanics. Everdell ( $54.94

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

. — Weird Giraffe Games (@WeirdGiraffes) May 30, 2017. Wargames to understand history, fantasy to let my imagination blow, euros to exercise my brain. In summary I play to have fun — Gaming in Luxembourg (@gameinlux) May 30, 2017. Board Game Geek – the world’s most beautiful site, in a weird way.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I would have played it sooner, but I was on this huge Final Fantasy kick (which is still ongoing, to be honest). It stands in stark contrast to 1995’s Final Fantasy V, where it’s extremely exciting to play around with the classes. But this kind of weirdo misogyny gender role s**t is just… throughout the game.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack.

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