Brand Game Development

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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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

You can always do more outreach, but I wound up working with the super cool people behind Board Game Design Lab and We’re Not Wizards. If you’re in it for money, become a sellout, make a fantasy worker placement / area control game for $19. I’m going to stop running so many social media accounts.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s no secret that one of the most critical parts of making a board game that will sell is making it gorgeous. Box art alone has the ability to multiply sales of an otherwise unassuming board game. Finding an artist is something that many first-time board game designers find very difficult to do.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Raph Koster is one of gaming’s most renowned designers of online play worlds, like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. As author of the highly influential book A Theory of Fun for Game Design, he’s a sought-after commentator on the state of gaming. “These days.

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iHobo

JULY 5, 2023

But precisely because we live in a world of 'stories everywhere', we need to be careful to understand how games engage with narrative. Yet there is a problem that the narrative motive faces when we play games that we do not face with other narrative media like film and written stories.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A video game critical analysis is an in-depth look into all the elements of the game. Critical analysis is an impartial deep dive into any type of media, including video games. It goes beyond shallow interpretations or comments—it explains how the game is played and the elements that make it worth investing in.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. Our games are highly interactive novels with settings, characters, and stories that get people to actually give us real money. I'm not a great fantasy writer. Gamers are the most forgiving, tolerant audience of any media.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Weapon and armor design in Lost Ark is often extremely exaggerated and luxurious. It can be seen from the hodge-podge of scene design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This made it a great fit for cartoons with an adorable style and simple geometry exemplified in Western cartoon media with The Powerpuff Girls and My Little Pony. The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” I say mostly, because social media today shows we were partly right also. It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do. So is FFXIV. But Eve is basically simulationist.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

4X Games require a high level of technical expertise Asian developers are at their strongest in meta-game design, which is essential in 4X games The level of innovation in the genre is low, which suits developers who are good in reverse-engineering.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Being on social media too much can give you a hopelessly skewed idea of what most of our customers actually know and care about. Will probably beat 5 or so more games and call it good.) I wrote about UFO50, that it should be the textbook for any game design class. So I proudly announce the laws above. 4 cherries.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

. — Weird Giraffe Games (@WeirdGiraffes) May 30, 2017. Wargames to understand history, fantasy to let my imagination blow, euros to exercise my brain. In summary I play to have fun — Gaming in Luxembourg (@gameinlux) May 30, 2017. What are hobby board games? Mine are to connect and strengthen the bond of family.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They also show – in their different ways – that there are many ways to create excitement and energy in the market, through bold game design, smart marketing, and intelligent planning, not to mention confident investment. Mountains move Such games move mountains.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kathleen is working on a PhD in computational media over at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, she’s done all kinds of awesome academic stuff on the subjects of games, media studies, critical theory analysis and a lot more. We met and immediately started having interesting conversations about Final Fantasy.

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