Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2025

I, like many, ended up working outside of traditional video game development for a brief period of time. That might be casino games, mobile games, simulation, training work, user experience design, or something else entirely. I worked with former game devs doing work very similar to game dev at the time.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

The fact that it took him over five years to get to the point that it’s nearly ready for Early Access is largely due to learning the ropes of game development along the way. Why did you become a solo developer? I then had enough time to focus on game dev, so I made the decision to start changing careers.

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JULY 17, 2017

When it comes to games, there are a handful of truths that are very important to realize. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That’s why I developed a theory which I refer to as the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week in the Dev Diary, I talked about how board game development is a long, ongoing process with a lot of different stages. Need help on your board game?

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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. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? His name is James Masino.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Google “list of board game mechanics.” Pick 2-3 that you like and want to incorporate into your game. Write the first draft of your rules. Test your game for the first time.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Released on May 9, the wholesome adventure game about a cat looking for its way home has been massively successful, selling over 100,000 units within the first 48 hours of release, and garnering over a million plays on Game Pass. Double Dagger Studio arose from his desire to challenge himself in new ways as a game developer.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly. So how do you write a good BLUF?

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says.

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JULY 9, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. To help us understand the nuances of Reddit, particularly board game Reddit, I’ve brought in Raf Cordero. I currently write for Geek & Sundry, PC Gamer, and ThereWillBe.Games. What is Reddit?

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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. . Learn how to use Board Game Geek. Happy New Year!

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APRIL 16, 2018

About a year ago, I wrote How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. It fits in beautifully with the Marketing & Promoting Your Game series of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. Need help on your board game? Read this first: How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Tomasz Kaye had prior game development experience, with credits on Ibb & Obb and Chalo Chalo , but this time he went solo for his latest creation Axe Ghost. “It It wasn’t exactly a deliberate choice,” he explains, “I had a small game idea that I wanted to finish and publish, and it seemed doable alone.”

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MARCH 16, 2018

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. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here.

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MARCH 27, 2017

My first game, War Co. As I write this, I have over 10,000 followers between the War Co. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That’s why I’m writing this guide. I have data that says so. succeeded because of social media.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. Writing things down helps too.”

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APRIL 23, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now, she’s navigating the world of game development, where each day brings new challenges and exciting discoveries. Let’s take a trip back memory lane and find out when the seed of game development was planted and how each part of Kamo’s past adds up. This knowledge helps me create architectural designs in games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

They only write what is needed (no redundant information), keep the ordering of sections and are simple enough to understand changes by just looking at the diff. I hope that this write up made more evident why Godot is such a key technology for the future of the game industry. Large team VCS support.

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MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. Marketing is a big concern for game developers, especially in the chaotic arena of social media. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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MAY 29, 2018

My difficult experiences with Highways & Byways – my recent game which ended in a failed Kickstarter campaign – have inspired me to add the Failure Recovery series to Start to Finish. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. As of the time that I’m writing this, that’s a little under a month away. Things are starting to get hectic around the Pangea Games office / my home office. Click here.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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. After playing, I agreed.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. We know this in game development, in code, in art, in writing – you can’t get it right on the first try.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2024

Nielsen is a self-taught game developer, with many of the necessary skills ‘accidentally’ acquired over the years. Nielsen worked as a comic writer and artist for over ten years before transitioning to game development. Since then, he has created three games. All built skills useful in game development!

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted A Crash Course on Selling Board Games , which is my way of helping demystify that which terrifies many first-time game developers. Need help on your board game?

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AUGUST 24, 2020

At the time I’m writing this post, that means clicking Lists then clicking Create List button. You’ll be asked to enter the following: List Name – I use Brandon the Game Dev Newsletter. You’ll very soon be receiving updates from Brandon the Game Dev. Provide an email, username, and password.

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MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Before you write on it, it is everything and it is nothing, the most perfect work of literature and the most grammatically defunct Internet copypasta shlock. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. That blank page could be anything.

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JULY 2, 2018

Much of the anxiety that new game developers experience when sending their games off to reviewers comes from the opaqueness of the process. That’s why I’ve brought in Dez Maggs of goto.game to talk about what goes into the board game review process. Need help on your board game? What do reviews involve?

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At 9, he ventured into writing compositions, then graduated to writing novels, inspired by a friend working on a novel. Around the same time, he delved into the world of video games, playing titles like GTA, Scarface, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Call of Duty, and FIFA. One of the stories I wrote was a game.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Launching a board game on Kickstarter is an extremely nerve-wracking experience. Need help on your board game? What does all this mean for the game dev? Click here.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week, I talked about how time-consuming and difficult it can be to get a board game working. It takes a long, long time for a board game to be fun. Click here.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last week I talked about reaching out to board game reviewers. In fact, in many ways, getting featured on blogs and podcasts is easier than convincing people to review your board game.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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. I made a board game in under a year from scratch. Click here.

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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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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 24, 2023

Riding the Wave of Tech Evolution In an era defined by rapid innovation and evolution, the game development industry continually grapples with the pressure to remain on the cutting edge. Dino Patti and Tadej Gregorcic , both co-founders of Coherence , a platform aiming to democratize multiplayer game development.

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