PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What started as a simple concept quickly turned into a game that challenges players with a mix of strategic depth and risk-reward mechanics. I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge.” Solo devs have to be generalists, and that’s not for everyone”.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. You need to make a great game. You need to play-test it a lot – alone, with friends, with family, with blind play-testers, and with game designers. Click here. Will this work?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

AI affects game design The project’s trajectory shifted with the integration of AI tools. “To produce a point and click game, and to document the creation of a partly AI-generated game.” are answered in his regularly updated dev blog. It became a public AI research project.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

To celebrate the launch, I’ll be releasing a five-part case study on the development of the game every week for the next five weeks. I didn’t write these articles – Ryan Langewisch did. He is the designer of Tasty Humans. He won Panjam, a 48-hour board game design contest that Pangea ran in 2018.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. She explains, “Creativity ended the minute high school began, you had to do things a certain way and the only room for creativity was in writing English essays.”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Much like my old staple How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev , I’ll be covering everything you need to know to get started on Facebook as a board game developer. In fact, at the moment I’m writing this article, it’s the third most popular website in the world, bested only by Google and YouTube.

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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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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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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After it, you can hope to passively sell your game and reap the rewards in the form of sales. You could also use your success to launch multiple games, building a company in the process. Alternatively, you could dedicate yourself to game design, picking up 5-10% on every game you design for different companies.

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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? Be direct when writing rules. Playtest a Ton.

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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? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Sean: Sure!

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 23, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I’m going to talk the importance of timing when you’re developing a board game. Stages of a Board Game Project. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? His name is James Masino.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2017

I’ve been through it, as have many, many talented game designers, writers, artists, and CEOs. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Making a board game involves hundreds of play tests and a lot of subtle tweaks. You can do it.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Play-testing is the most important part of board game design. It’s how you turn rough, raw ideas into polished, ready-to-play games. Write down everything they say and keep a good attitude even if you disagree. You may also be able to find a game design or play-testing group local to where you live as well.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 14, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. I talk a lot about the business side of board game creation. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It paid off.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The San Diego, USA based developer does however love the freedom he gets as a solo dev: “You get to make all the decisions. I love to see players’ reactions when they play my game. Ironically, my cousin hated game design and instead works in real estate.” This streamer is playing my 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. I would have much preferred to write a post about how Highways & Byways funded on day 1. This is the first filter in my new game development process and I will use it aggressively.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indie devs can't just come up with the ideas for the rest of the team to build them out; there just aren't enough people to handle that kind of workload. At the very least he'll need to create his own assets and/or write his own code. There's just too much work to be done without enough hands to do it within a small team.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 22, 2021

Many of you who read this blog know that I am self-publishing board game designer who uses Kickstarter as my platform of choice for funding the bulk of my projects. Certainly no surprise if you’ve read some of my articles like A Crash Course on Kickstarter for Board Games. Don’t write it off as an option.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 11, 2018

There used to be posts here - “excerpts” from a novel you have not been writing. And better yet, write more of those? Those were part of a daily writing exercise I used to do in the mornings. I would sit down with a pad and paper and just start writing, never pausing and never thinking about any direction.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. A lot of times, board game designers and publishers will create abstract games and add themes later. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Win the Cold War before the Soviets take over.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

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. In this article, I’m not going to write about how to specifically word a pitch. I can help.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 8, 2019

Wrong Reason to Make a Board Game #2: You Hate Your Job or Boss. It’s seldom these days that I see a person truly convinced that board game design will make them rich. I didn’t appreciate how hard making a board game was until this blog took off and I started getting calls from entrepreneurs.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

From it, I went on to write Why the Highways & Byways Kickstarter Campaign Crashed & Burned , which remains one of the most popular posts on this blog, even two years later. I don’t think people write about failure enough. It was a deeply personal project for which I had high hopes. I learned a lot from that experience.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 24, 2017

In this guide, I’ll be showing game developers how to get board games listed on Board Game Geek. As I write this article, I’m going to assume this is your first board game, that neither your team members nor your publishing company are entered into the database, and that you have a Board Game Geek account.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Besides the leads, some specific disciplines tend to do more paperwork - QA spends a huge amount of time filling out bug reports, designers have to write design documents, and production have to create most/all of the non-bug tasks to be tracked.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 12, 2018

There used to be posts here - "excerpts" from a novel you have not been writing. And better yet, write more of those? Those were part of a daily writing exercise I used to do in the mornings. I would sit down with a pad and paper and just start writing, never pausing and never thinking about any direction.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After all, in a couple of hours that you would spend on writing all the ideas down, you might be coding and make these ideas come to live instead, right? If you decide to work on your design doc at the beginning of the project, your future self will probably thank your past self on many occasions. Well, not exactly. .

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Digital Ephemera

MAY 28, 2022

Development Updates: Snowman Dev Update (2.2: May 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 5 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 12 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 14 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 19 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 26 June 2022) Snowman Dev Update (2.2: Re-Writing History (API).

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As long as the “owners” and the bible remain consistent, the game content usually remains consistent. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

This article is the eleventh 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. Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming. A lot of this is just good game design.).

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If you want to be a hobbyist, then I suggest reading my guide on the [ minimum competence needed ] to be able to contribute to a game development team. Then, start doing each of these things - write code, create art assets, build a level, make something playable.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Game development as a process falls into several stages, most of which take months. Game design and development. This is the process by which game ideas are crafted into working products. Making the game work isn’t necessarily the hard part. They include… Early Production. Budget 3 months for this.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 5, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? It is, at the time of this writing, at least four-and-a-half years old.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In this Livecast they talk about the story in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Cloudpunk amongst other topics related to storytelling in video games. Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 2, 2023

Remember, the goal when writing a design document is to help provide a road map for the feature or system you’re working on. When I write a design document, I usually try to address the following: High level goal - What is this feature/system/puzzle/etc. supposed to do?

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