Brand Game Development

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. No matter what type of game you’re making, these 10 elements are critical to making a good game. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the first of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? The placement of tiles is part of the core engine.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 10, 2019

Hardcore gamers pride themselves on mastering games with unique gameplay and complex rules. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Much of the draw of board gaming comes from the physical experience, and so much of that comes from the components.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 22, 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 one of them was about how to find an audience for a board game. Need help on your board game? Final Thoughts.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? This was a small, tight, humble, simple project.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 3, 2020

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fourteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? mm x 228.6mm) with 48 tiles 48: circular,5” x.5”

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, I find myself somewhere in the middle when it comes time to picking out a game. Part of this is because of my early years growing up with board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Growing Up with Board Games.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

It’s a simple app on the Steam store, it costs $19.99, and it’s been an extraordinary resource for me during the development of War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Click Tile for flat pieces or Figurine for stand-up pieces.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 7, 2019

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. You create an island of hexagonal tiles, each of which represents a different type of terrain.

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Brand Game Development

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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Second, what goes into making tabletop games? Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Back in the heat of the summer of 2017, I wrote two articles about this A Crash Course in Games and A Crash Course in Game Development.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Until then, please leave your questions and comments below.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 8, 2021

A handful have stood out head and shoulders among the rest, working their way up to the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. This is a truly staggering achievement because pleasing Board Game Geek users is no easy task! Need help on your board game? Need help on your board game? Source ).

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 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 one of them was about how much to spend on board game advertising. Need help on your board game? Eat villagers.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

You can also check out Reece’s pixel art game Monster Tribe on Steam. 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. Should Pixel Art Backgrounds Be Created With Tiles or Created Whole? (1:17:21

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m someone who grew up playing card and board games, but I would not consider myself a hobby gamer. From Board Game Geek. Need help on your board game? Last week, I received Marrying Mr. Darcy.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some of this goes back to the process of creating your game, getting it manufactured, and raising funds. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eleventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 15, 2021

To help you survive not only the virus but the stultifying boredom of being stuck in your own home, I’ve put together a list of the very best solo board games in the world. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

But board games have been around since Mesopotamia , so let’s talk about the top 10 old board games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The post The Top 10 Old Board Games (Before Catan) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). The illustration picture is from NeJ , an upcoming poetic and mysterious hand-drawn adventure game developed by Ben Lega.

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

OK, so as far as I can tell, the pawn has always been fiddly all the way back to chaturanga, the game chess comes from. Unlike every other piece, it can move to some tiles only if they’re empty, and to others only if they’re occupied, and only if by an enemy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Auto-tiling in tile maps. Auto-tiling in tile maps. Godot now supports auto-tiling in TileMap, authored by Mariano Suligoy ( MarianoGNU ) and enhanced by Damar Indra. This new implementation is based on Tiled Editor 's Terrains and is fully compatible with previous TileSets. Bullet Physics backend.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 20, 2022

Also the game has great reviews on every platform it’s on, which is nice. I also think, actually all told, the whole dev process was pretty darn short. I started it late 2019, worked on it throughout 2020, and released the game in 2021. Kind of a strange fluke, I feel like, but still – very cool! Thanks for reading!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Written by Ahmetcan Demirel , the maestro of product management and a podcast host ( Game Dev Diary ) from Germany! With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. Merge surpassed Blast last year and looks like “Pair” that mainly has Physical Match and Tile Match will do the same at the end of this year.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The categories are as follows: Hobby Board Games Family Card Games Family Board Games Party Games Game Accessories & Storage Home Décor & Other Gifts Apparel & Funny Gifts.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

I remember how hard it was to learn on my own, and I’ve made it my mission to guide you through the whole process the way I wish I was when I created my first game, War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When I started, I knew nothing.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 13, 2018

However, one task, in particular, seems to get more attention than the rest: creating the perfect board game Kickstarter campaign page. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’m going somewhere with this, hear me out.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post. For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. Although the Lil Nas X 3D twerking game runs surprisingly well on iOS's WebGL 1.0, If you came here for gay sex, I'm sorry.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In my Tasty Humans Designer Diary posts so far, I have focused on the puzzle aspect of the game. Is it worth taking that better tile at the expense of picking last next round?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In each of the design diaries that I have written so far, I have focused on a specific game mechanic or isolated portion of the game. At the beginning of the game, a player’s objective is simple.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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