Brand Game Development

MARCH 29, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. If you don’t consistently work to improve, you won’t make the game you want to make. Note that when I say “quit”, I don’t mean “quit board game design.”

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JUNE 1, 2020

Naturally, we needed to set the game up and take a few photos to send to her, if nothing else. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Like many board games, Imhotep has a lot to teach board game designers. CC BY-SA 3.0

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JUNE 29, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” ” I got a lot of responses, and two of them were about knowing when to pivot during a game design project. Need help on your board game?

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

I think you have the wrong idea about what game designers do. We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 17, 2018

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. Let’s start with three roles: board game designer, developer, and publisher. Need help on your board game? Designers make the game’s soul.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To Si-wooks’s deep passion for game development inspired Hee-sang to take a leap of faith.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 13, 2020

Certainly, board game designers can learn a lot from well-designed escape rooms. Exit Games by Kosmos are the closest we can get to the authentic in-person experience right now. Exit Games by Kosmos are the closest we can get to the authentic in-person experience right now. Need help on your board game?

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MARCH 9, 2020

When board gamers need a game to mercilessly mock , they look no further than Monopoly. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Monopoly is a bad game, but have a little respect. This is a critical element of good game design.

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Game Wisdom

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Why You Can’t Objectively Build Great Games Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com I was reading a piece over on Game Developer that gave me pause for a second about whether this is what game design at the AAA level is about now — focusing on analytics and trying to “math” the perfect … The post Why You Can’t Objectively (..)

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Game Wisdom

MAY 25, 2023

The Clash of Choices in Game Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com One of the many balancing acts of game design is the act of creating cool, interesting, unique, abilities for the player to use, and then balancing said abilities within the scope and design of your game.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Escape Rooms will make you a better board game designer. With this in mind, here are six reasons I believe that Escape Rooms will make you a better board game designer. Escape Rooms are master classes in theme.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It has been given the modern board game polish, though, with adorably cutesy art of Greek gods, and an incredibly photogenic set of stackable plastic components. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Physical game presence counts for a lot.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today, I have a challenge for you as a board game designer. I want to see you make a board game in 28 days. That’s why I’ve provided a 28-day game design challenge for you. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Play-test your game alone again.

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That One Game Dev

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Read this article to understand what photogrammetry is and how it can help you today to generate reallistic 3D models for your next game. The post Photogrammetry for Game Development appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? 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.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I was a neophyte game developer, I found an excellent article by Wizards of the Coast, creators of Magic: the Gathering , called Ten Things Every Game Needs. This two-part article was so influential in my initial design of War Co. This two-part article was so influential in my initial design of War Co.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

It is also a smashing success of a game – so let’s talk about why that is. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Take note, aspiring game designers! This is arguably one of the worst feelings that a game can give you.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

I realized that in my push to create Highways & Byways , I’ve neglected six very powerful background skills that make game developers great. Game development is about more than just game development, folks. Need help on your board game? Guiding Lights: Make great games.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Indeed, on the Pangea Games Facebook group where we regularly give away free board games, Root has by far the most popular prize we’ve ever given away (all three times we’ve done it)! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

No matter how you feel about it, there is a lot that new board game designers can learn from it. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In my opinion, pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

For these reasons and more, we’re going to dive into Ticket to Ride and talk about what new board game designers can learn from this 15-year-old game. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Games need stakes to be satisfying.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

It has since remained a hot game on Board Game Geek and a perennial favorite in Pangea Games board game giveaways! So with that in mind, what can we learn from this award-winning board game with a silly name? Need help on your board game? It’s absurd and you can’t help but smile at it.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Stages of a Board Game Project. His name is James Masino.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Twilight Imperium is among the greatest board games of all time according to BoardGameGeek. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. No two games should be the same. Within that notoriously hard-to-please community, it holds a staggering 8.7/10

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

The annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) was held last week in San Francisco, boasting 28,000 attendees ! Penny was kind enough to share her experience at GDC and why she believes it's such a valuable event for people looking to break into the games industry. Meet Penny!

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Ever since then, Paladins of the West Kingdom has been on the Board Game Geek Hotness list nearly every time I’ve checked. For this reason, we are going to dig into what makes this game so successful. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In it, I talk about why I love Pandemic for introducing me to hobby games and why I find its take on cooperative gameplay particularly effective. Photo taken by Jana Reifegerste and posted on Flickr.

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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. As you learn to do these tasks and level up, you'll become a generalist that's able to make a lot of contributions to a dev team.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Catan was the first major hobby board game to come into existence. Even 24 years later, we can still look back at this game and learn lessons from it. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A lot of games have come and gone and Catan endures.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2023

You are correct in that it is possible to transfer that body of knowledge over to the other gaming industry that is casino machines. Beyond that, here are some other roles that game design skills could transfer to. Tabletop, board, or card game design. It's still game design, just not in video games.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Naturally, this game is nowhere remotely close to completion. Also, the game doesn’t have a defined win condition yet. The post Dev Diary: 03/31/17 appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Naoum calls himself a jack of all trades, a master of none, so going solo on game development made a lot of sense. Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post 4 Lessons from Everdell for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. But why exactly is that? Cute fantasy themes go a long way.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I consider this to really valuable for learning game design simply because there is so much going on. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Terraforming Mars is a game where each player acts as a corporation trying to, well, terraform Mars.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Naoum calls himself a jack of all trades, a master of none, so going solo on game development made a lot of sense. Pat Naoum: “Game development takes so long!”

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Even now, two years later, the game’s name has enough cultural cachet to lead to the most popular board game giveaway Pangea has ever sponsored. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That entails theme, components, and art.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Clearly, there is much more to this game than what immediately meets the eye. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. For that, we’ll reference the game’s Board Game Geek page. There’s a lot we can learn from it!

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