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Timing is Everything in Board Game Development

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. I’m going to talk the importance of timing when you’re developing a board game. His name is James Masino.

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A Crash Course in Board Game Development

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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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How Many Blind Play-Tests Does Your Board Game *Really* Need?

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. 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.

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How to Keep the Hype Train Going After a Board Game Kickstarter

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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. The point is, Kickstarter is just the beginning. Many games come with complex worlds.

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How to Master Time (So You Can Make Games)

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Game development as a process falls into several stages, most of which take months. Game design and development. This is the process by which game ideas are crafted into working products. Making the game work isn’t necessarily the hard part. Is it social media? They include… Early Production.

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How to Find an Artist for Your Board Game

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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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How a Failed Kickstarter Set Me Up For Success 2 Years Later

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To save you a click: it was a product made for no specific audience in mind at a price point that was unresolvably high. But honestly, basically every board game designer, corporation, musician, artist, and even employee has flopped at some point. But it was still raw then.

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