Tiny Hydra

APRIL 22, 2021

With the rise of social media, blogs may have passed their heyday. The post 20 Game Design and Development Blogs: Great Writing On How To Make Games appeared first on Tiny Hydra.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today, I have a challenge for you as a board game designer. I want to see you make a board game in 28 days. That’s why I’ve provided a 28-day game design challenge for you. This 28-day challenge is intended to give you the structure needed to get into the habit of board game design.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

That can, in turn, help us make great games or even predict whether or not board games as we know it will last. The Internet and Social Media Made the Communities Possible. Board gaming is an obscure enough niche that it can’t justify the existence of a TV network, large magazine, or other traditional media outlet.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 8, 2020

Game Design Principles & Finding An Audience. At this point, many game designers will balk at the idea of doing market research. Game designers market without even meaning to when they design their games. Game designers tend to play a lot of games and interact with a lot of gamers.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I tend to use the word game development as a catch-all term for everything that is associated with making a game – that includes game design, product development, marketing, promotion, Kickstarter/crowdfunding, fulfillment, and selling.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Play-test with game designers. Let’s say you’ve made light games.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2024

BA in Game Design" ticks a box that "BA in Digital Media" likely won't, though the kind of degree is only one of many keywords we're looking for. Large studios like Blizzard or Riot often have literal hundreds of applications for open positions, and calling everyone back would take an army of recruiters.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image credit: DanielAlexanderSmith / Wikipedia For decades, Peter Molyneux was a regular fixture on the game media outlet interview circuit, his face gracing the cover of magazines or website feature splashes. Indeed, a Twitter parody account called Peter Molydeux regularly posts amusingly bats-arse game design ideas.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

If the audience shows passion and interest, continue to game design. Game Design: The process of taking a game’s specifications and turning them into a functional game with mechanics, rules, and components. Play-Testing: Playing the game and refining it until it’s fun.

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DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Games like Second Life excel in this area. We hope this Devology Livecast helps you understand how to make games that require low brain power and keeps players anxiety levels low. Check us out on social media [link] [link] [link] Remember, we host live develogy livecasts every Tuesday at 10pm BST on our YouTube channel.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hearst Newspapers has acquired puzzle games hub Puzzmo. Developed by game designer Zach Gage and engineer Orta Therox, Puzzmo is a platform for original daily newspaper games and puzzles, such as SpellTower, Typeshift, Flipart, and Cross|Word.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The 26th DICE Awards took place last night, with Elden Ring winning the coveted Game of the Year prize. FromSoftware's title also took home awards for Technical Achievement, Achievement in Game Design, Achievement in Game Direction, as well as RPG of the Year.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 23, 2017

I’m going to talk the importance of timing when you’re developing a board game. They include early game design, game tweaks, artwork, sample production, the game review process, Kickstarter preparation/campaigning/wrap-up, manufacturing, fulfillment, sales, and the marketing. Get email contacts.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

“We are aiming to have a constantly shifting and engaging gaming experience where the visual look and game mechanics are always changing, and everything you come across feels fresh and intriguing.” He’s also planning the overall game design. They’re all about how to market your game!

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After it, you can hope to passively sell your game and reap the rewards in the form of sales. You could also use your success to launch multiple games, building a company in the process. Alternatively, you could dedicate yourself to game design, picking up 5-10% on every game you design for different companies.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Not only does it help you demystify some of the speech you hear when you get into gaming, but it also has implications that could affect how you classify your website, categorize your Kickstarter campaign, or target an audience on social media or for advertising. What are hobby board games? Game Design.

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Jesper Juul

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Here’s the new Eludamos special issue on Playfulness across Media , edited by Jan-Noël Thon. Introduction: Playfulness across Media. Can Playfulness Be Designed? Taking Playful Scholarship Seriously: Discursive Game Design as a Means of Tackling Intractable Controversies. Table of Contents. Perspectives.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I even blind play-tested it at a game design convention. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. “How many blind play-tests does your board game really need? People like it, it’s been blind play-tested for over two months now.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Wild Kingdoms (Itan Orisha) by Kucheza Gaming She compared her childhood to her sons’, noting the significant changes in media consumption and behaviour due to technological advancements. Through initiatives like mobile game jams and interschool esports, she aims to foster girls’ interest in STEAM fields.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

Help game developers unlock their creativity. Goal for Guiding Light 2) Create and curate great social media content. A lot of you know me through social media , which I use a lot. Truth is, some of my techniques for running social media haven’t been super efficient. Goals: Develop Highways & Byways.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Associate Development Manager Co-op/Internship - Summer 2025 (Sports FC QV) Game Product Manager Intern (Summer 2025) Music Intern EA Sports FC Franchise Activation Intern Associate Character Artist Intern Client Engineer Intern Visual Effects Co-Op Associate Environment Artist Co-Op (Summer 2025) Game Design Intern (Summer 2025) Game Design Co-Op (..)

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 30, 2021

In this video from 2021 CIMFest, game designers and community managers discuss how to remove toxicity from game communities. Originally scheduled for 2020 GDC, this roundtable on Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities was canceled due to the pandemic.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

“If you’re doing a video game campaign, you should not send T-shirts, posters and whatever” For a successful Kickstarter, developers should have a bug-free, visually impressive demo or vertical slice ready, aligning with the final game’s visual standards. Funding goals, influenced by Steam’s pricing trends, are shrinking.

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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? I studied Game Design at UAT in Tempe, AZ and graduated with honors in 2009.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2023

Eray Ağaçdoğrayan , founder of Gyroscoping Games , is Turkish himself. Refugees have been a main topic of news, talk shows and social media for about a decade”, he says. But also popular media, books, interviews with refugees, and personnel working in humanitarian programs shape our game design and content creation process.”

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OPM Jobs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” Kim Parker Adcock | Owner and MD, One Player Mission MEET THE MCV/DEVELOP 30 UNDER 30 Melissa Larsson | Marketing Manager, Square Enix Max Louis | Founder and Studio Director, MLC Lucy Hale | Brand Video Creator, Square Enix External Studios Vijay Gill | Producer, Rocksteady Studios Katy Wood | Senior 3D artist, Hyper Luminal Games Jupiter (..)

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 22, 2018

This article is the twelfth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming. It’s about making games for more gamers.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area. Will is the lead designer.

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Game Design Aspect

APRIL 15, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, I interviewed job seekers who were actively applying to jobs and internships in the video game industry. Some were in related careers like social media management or comedy writing. I found out that all had learned about the stiff competition there was for entry level narrative jobs in the video game industry.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 16, 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. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's Check out the Livecast for all 7 game dev myths.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2024

With a dedicated game designer and a narrative designer on the project, most of the creative decisions and ideas come from them, but Minenko insists everyone pitches in. “We Wishlist Hollow Home on Steam , follow us on social media , and join our discord”, he says. Vote for the game in the contests we participate in.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Commissioning art can be one of the most daunting parts of the game development process.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Exceptions upon exceptions Looking back at the development process, Kusters is amazed about the intricacy of Vic Davis’ original game design. “He He made this game, essentially on his own, in just over 18 months. It’s taken us three years with over 30 talented developers to piece together his dark masterpiece.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 12, 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. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Throughout high school, I played a ton of different kinds of games, but the games that me and my friends would sit around the table and talk about were games like Fallout 1 and 2, exchanging stories of what had happened the night before. You can also help by spreading the word about this game. Thanks for reading!

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

Driven by his desire to immerse himself in game design, Kimani rejoined Wits University. Cukia Kimani & Ben Myres He explains, “The reason for me to go back to Wits and do a post-grad in Game Design, to be honest, was the community. I was not just like, ‘hey guys, I made a video game.’

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