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Board Game Designer vs. Developer vs. Publisher

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The simple fact is that there are a lot of distinct tasks that have to be handled to turn a game from an idea into reality. This is why I urge each new board game designer to share the workload , delegating tasks to a team instead of doing them all alone. Need help on your board game? Designers make the game’s soul.

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20 New Year’s Resolutions for Board Game Devs in 2020

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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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A follow up to your answer about veilguard (was really hoping you would touch on that one). Why do game companies that have a “bad” release always seem to start from the bottom of the pyramid when it comes to restructuring and recouping losses? Why fire low level devs who did their best with what they had, when the companies have people in senior positions making hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) that they could just cut from? Why do the trenches always get the punishment first?

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The next factor is that each major experience level up a dev attains tends to be a geometric difference in productivity. [ A large task that would take a junior dev two months to complete might take a mid-level dev one month and a senior dev only a week or two ].

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Kazakhstan-based Goodwin Games takes us on an emotional adventure in Selfloss

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“I used to attend a lot of game development events and conferences, but now I’m more interested in just focusing on making games.” The development of Selfloss was initially funded by Khoroshavin himself through his job as a lecturer in game design and Unreal Engine at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg.

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5 Lessons I Learned at a Play-Testing Convention (Protospiel Atlanta)

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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. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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Makhoba Kamogelo: “Don’t let fear stop you from reinventing yourself”

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A community manager and new game designer. A game filled with cute armoured babies on a brave mission to save their daycare from a goblin invasion. African Game Dev Prototype Fund They say the best leaders lead by example. This knowledge helps me create architectural designs in games.

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Crack the case by chatting with GPT in Uncover the Smoking Gun by ReLU Games

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Before Smoking Gun, there was a prototype game called Demon, where GPT played the role of an evil spirit, and the player had to find hidden information and banish the spirit through conversation. This game did not succeed, but I learned two things,” says Han. Answers to other information come from GPT’s intelligence.

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