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Solo dev Jason Nicot on his new project Sanctua “A more mature party game”

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Since childhood, Nicot always had a fascination with video games, but when it was time to pick a career, game designer wasn’t on the radar. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind. The Sanctua game design document was 95% complete before I started coding.

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Dev Diary: 03/31/17

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Also, the game doesn’t have a defined win condition yet. Some game designers – and I count myself among them – consider to be win conditions pretty important to games. I’ve pushed a rough version of the game out to Tabletop Simulator for my use only.

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7 Lessons from Monopoly for Aspiring Board Game Designers

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.” Besides, when we – as gamers and game developers – put aside our frustration for a moment, we can actually see Monopoly for what it is: a solid concept with bad execution. There are a lot of questionable game design decisions that, if corrected, could have made for a fantastic game.

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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

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Financial success Solo dev Tuomas Auronen , operating under the name Redbeak Games , looks pretty relieved three days after the launch of his game Mortal Glory 2. When his last game, that he spent 17 months working on, flopped, Auronen felt the pressure to make enough money to support his family. So what went wrong?

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3 Signs It’s Time to Quit Working a Board Game Design Idea

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You have to block off time for your creativity to flow, do the hard work, and take tough feedback to make the best game you can. I also think that if you’re brand new to board game design, it’s worth pushing a small project all the way through its full lifecycle from start to finish. All of this means trying hard!

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10 Elements of Good Game Design

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Throughout the entire game, you must place tiles in your monster’s stomach in such a way that you will earn the most points from scoring tiles. If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different. If you want your game to be great, it can’t simply be a technical masterpiece.

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Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun

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For that reason, I’ve brought in Sean Fallon, Founder & CEO of Smunchy Games and User Experience (UX) Designer extraordinaire. By looking at game design from this new angle, we hope to help you understand why board games are so playable and what that means for other aspects of our lives. What’s the point?

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