Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Playtest a Ton. Think long and hard about how much you want the game to fight back against the players. The post How to Make Board Game Rules appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. With all this said, how does one create rules that fulfill the twin purposes of balancing the game and communicating clearly?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different. Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. This seems obvious, but never lose sight of it.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

You fight to take the throne either through military conquest or economic prowess. There might be a room for playtesting prototypes at some cons, but they are often small and not very well attended. The post How to Get Started with Board Game Conventions as a Board Game Creator, Part 1 appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 26, 2023

We can then break down the components for the activities… traveling, interacting/talking with NPCs, fighting, etc. We can then try these values to start with for our playtests and see how they feel. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent questions: The FAQ

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Beta 11 is finally tackling this project, and we’ve already seen it manifested across propulsion , weapon mechanics , storage units , fabrication and more, but the comprehensive item-by-item review has only come to pass as part of the conclusion to this dev cycle. The biggest change there was simply yet more significant damage buffs.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In playtesting so far this (among other benefits we’ll get to later) is already clearly tempting players who would otherwise always prefer regular branches over infiltrating a Garrison. The above samples show encounters added to a variety of Garrison layouts, highlighted with a dev visualization overlay.

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