Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Experiment with a theme or mechanics you’ve never used. Try reading some articles on Meeple Like Us – they’re very informative and Dr. Michael Heron writes what could very easily be a dry academic subject with compelling intelligence and humor. Let’s say you’ve made light games. . Happy New Year!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

Currently, our system is designed to address highly repetitive and mechanical content production problems, such as matching lip movements. Impressive numbers To give an indication of how much time a dev team saves on the creation of NPCs, Dao Si shows some impressive numbers. It even helps writing the lines.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 17, 2017

The following excerpt is from Games Speak through Mechanics, Not Rules (Dev Diary: 04/28/17). If you strip out all the mechanics that put obstacles in your players’ path, what’s left? The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics you need to have a functioning game. That’s a mechanic. Chess tells a story.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He took some online courses on programming and he was in business, as a solo dev operating under the name of Frambosa , only six months later. So, his solo debut game Billy Bumbum might be the first and last game he made as a one-man-dev-team. But for me it might be different than for other solo devs. This is never a good thing.”

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. This guide comes in four parts: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Brandon: What are some guidelines for writing good rules?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Why writing rules is different than other kinds of writing How to structure a rule book Making rule books clear and concise Your player’s first experience and your rule book Dealing with rule book skimmers Parting advice. Brandon: Both in consulting and in creating books, you’ve done quite a bit of writing.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Cogmind generally has fewer such direct escape options, but teleport mechanics are out there, if an advanced tech not usually available until the late game. How about we add one, maybe using this new type of charging mechanism (described towards the end). Controlled Teleporting?

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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. Where does art for art’s sake come into the business savvy game dev’s process? That is the basis from which the mechanics of the game are born. Just here for Highways & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Once the core engine and mechanics are in place, board games can be dragged down by easy-to-fix but hard-to-identify issues. 3) Write down everything your play-testers say even if you disagree. Click here.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

As I said last week , “rules regulate the way mechanics are implemented. A mechanic is the concept behind the game and the rule is the way that it’s handled to ensure balance.” Be direct when writing rules. Rules are how we implement game mechanics. Use Present Tense, Active Voice, Second Person.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Although I keep an eye on general short-term trends in dev work throughout the weeks and months, the biggest revelations often don’t come until year’s end when viewed in aggregate, and in the context of previous years, once everything is integrated into the many graphs I use to monitor long-term progress/work. Including art!

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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. Themes create this story that make it easier for players to understand and interact with dry mechanics. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Re-theming is totally fine by me.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 7, 2017

” Created traffic mechanic. 3: Nixed the traffic mechanic. Implemented construction mechanic. 4: Reduced board crowding and fiddliness of construction mechanic. The post The Art of the Play Test: Designing Tests and Keeping Records appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. 5: Added Vehicle Cards.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Written by Ahmetcan Demirel , the maestro of product management and a podcast host ( Game Dev Diary ) from Germany! When Ahmetcan isnt busy crafting and designing killer features, youll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city. Succeed in the market.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 6, 2018

You can’t protect mechanics, but you can definitely protect your brand name, lore, art, and other assets. You need to know how to write a contract. I won’t tell you exactly how to write a contract since that varies on where you live, what you’re doing, how many people are involved, and how much money is involved.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is true that games speak to players through gameplay – the core engine, mechanics, and rules. Dylan: This was our challenge in trying to flesh out appropriate mechanics for Seize the Bean’s wild and almost untame-able theme. I don’t ever want to proclaim this is more important than mechanics; it certainly is not.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Staying motivated isn’t hard at all for the solo dev. “It Write the idea down in as much detail as is feasible – what it looks or smells like, how it should seem or feel, what effects it should have on the viewer, or on the code. It took him 4 years to create his game and in that time he learned some valuable lessons. “If

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 1, 2021

Product-market fit takes into account your game’s mechanics and play experience, its art, its price, its components, and a whole host of different factors that gamers look for – consciously or unconsciously – before they buy. It happened to me with a game called Highways & Byways , which I write about in detail here.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 24, 2017

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. Use other listings as reference material when writing your description. No free text. No free text.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 11, 2018

Players were just getting used to the interface and mechanic and default responses threw people off sometimes. 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.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the meantime, clarify fuzzy parts where necessary, write down their feedback, and keep playing. The post How to Identify & Fix Problems with Your Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Other people will play your game for the first time. They won’t understand the rules. Fix each problem one at a time.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Make sure your new audience and your new intentions are written everywhere you can write it and spoken about everywhere you can talk about it. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here.

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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. Writing this post was like performing an exorcism. Kickstarter is a big, beautiful data set.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s only after starting and successfully running a marketing agency and having two successful Kickstarter campaigns that I feel like I understand it well enough to write about it. I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev. For that reason, this is going to be a long post.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

In this article, I’m not going to write about how to specifically word a pitch. ” I write about this in length in People are Weird, Markets are Weirder…Especially with Board Games. ” They pick themes they already like with mechanics they already like at price points at which they’ve previously purchased.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 29, 2024

Video production is extremely time-consuming - at the very least you will need to record the needed footage, write and record the commentary, add any needed visual bits (e.g. There's a lot to be gained from doing personal game dev work and posting it publicly, but you don't need to go all or nothing. That's basically the rundown.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Written by Ahmetcan Demirel , the maestro of product management and a podcast host ( Game Dev Diary ) from Germany! When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting and designing killer features, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. If you can give your game a story, you build a whole world of context that draws patterns in the mechanics and the theme. In War Co. , Make it feel unique. This is the art for Spectrum in War Co.,

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Write down everything they say and keep a good attitude even if you disagree. The post 6 Ways to Find Play-Testers for Your New Board Game appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Because play-testing is hard, respect your play-testers time and opinions. Don’t argue, just listen. Remember: they’re doing you a huge favor!

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 12, 2018

Players were just getting used to the interface and mechanic and default responses threw people off sometimes. 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 loved those!

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I know I’m wanting to play a game just writing about it! Preferred Game Mechanics. In my blog post Growing Up with Board Games: The Power of Nostalgia , I discovered that there were 4 main game mechanic themes tying my favorite childhood games that have also impacted my favorite games as an adult. But be careful!

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. Playing around in the game engine can lead to discovering a mechanic that inspires a game/story. Until next time, happy dev'ing!

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Cocos

JULY 11, 2023

Remember the parent refer to window in your Cocos game page. By the way, you also need to make sure the callback is attached to the click callback of the target element you want to trigger.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

Publishers have all sorts of vetting mechanisms in place that keep you from going to market with a bad game. That may sound icky, but don’t simply write off the traditional publishing route. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Bringing it All Together.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 20, 2020

Good games have clever themes and mechanics. At the time that I am writing this, the campaigns I’ve seen succeed the most are expensive games or light games that are at or under $25. Because Kickstarter is so crowded these days, you need to catch each backer’s attention in a few seconds.

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