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3 Signs It’s Time to Quit Working a Board Game Design Idea

Brand Game Development

From time to time, I see board game creators on social media who have been working on the same design day-in, day-out for years on end. The first are people making a board game as a labor of love, who know they’re taking their sweet time on it, and they’re OK with it. And the second camp?

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4 Lessons from Sagrada for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

This game came out in 2017 and the creators knew that in order to succeed on social media, it had to make people stop and click. There was a while on Instagram where you couldn’t go 10 pictures on a board gamer’s Instagram feed without running into this game. Take note, aspiring game designers!

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Enhancing Game and Media Workflows with Global File Systems on AWS

AWS Games

Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important. For instance, game development studios use GFS solutions to manage game assets, build distribution, and engine data for collaborative work among game designers, developers, and artists.

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4 Lessons from Dinosaur Island for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

With a distinctive art style, you will stand out on social media. Sure, the neon and pastel colors make you think the game was made somewhere between the end of the Reagan administration and the pilot episode of Friends. In fact, Dinosaur Island has a distinctly modern art style calculated for the social media age.

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4 Lessons from Azul for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

It has received accolades far and wide, impressively breaking into the Board Game Geek Top 50 and securing a spot as one of five 2018 Mensa Select winners. It’s also, somehow, always trending on social media and Board Game Geek. Clearly, Plan B Games is doing something right, so let’s talk about that!

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Ten tips for overcoming imposter syndrome

GamesIndustry.biz

Like many, she struggled with imposter syndrome, a set of feelings that mean you ignore your successes and choose to believe you are good at what you are doing.

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5 Reasons Why Board Games are So Popular in 2019

Brand Game Development

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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