Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Failure can involve missed deadlines, lost clients, scrapped prototypes, controversial public statements, or no-show events. Were there physical issues that made the game difficult to play?

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s no news that the game development sector is a highly competitive one with capable hands who constantly work hard. However, getting a competitive edge in the industry requires creativity and that’s where rapid game prototyping comes in. It gives game producers the environment to conduct experiments and take chances.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 29, 2024

Prototype - A playable example of a single gameplay system to prove out the concept. Examples might be character movement, a combat combo system, or a specific game mechanic. The above screenshot is from the Breath of the Wild systems prototype - wind, fire, etc.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In fact, fulfillment often determines how big games are and how many components can be included. Many game developers think about fulfillment only after their project is complete – and you can certainly get away with it! Need help on your board game?

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Perforce

APRIL 28, 2023

Studios are using premade, free game assets to help them iterate more quickly before committing to any particular feature or game mechanic. Here, we will discuss how you can use free game assets — such as Unity free assets — for your video game prototype, and how a digital asset management tool can help.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2023

In game development, one of the most essential aspects is prototyping. In today’s world, game development is an art, and quite inarguably, it is one of the most complex and intricate art forms. In this article, you’ll learn some significant and exciting things about the development of game prototypes.

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CrazyLabs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the competitive world of mobile game development, creating captivating and enjoyable gaming experiences is paramount. Mobile games prototyping emerges as a crucial step in the game development process, enabling developers to iterate, test, and refine their game mechanics before the final production phase.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Need help on your board game?

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Meet with AWS for Games experts to learn about the transformational power of generative AI and cloud game development.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2024

Pirofauna is the second game by tiny indie studio Petums. The first game Papetura was successful enough for Ostafin to make game development his full-time occupation. I really visualize everything, next steps, ideas and prototypes. For this game I only created a few attempts, I dismissed all others in my head.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From there, we tested a variety of prototypes and selected the ones that were the most fun, engaging and fit naturally into the theme of our town.” The development team has more surprises in store, with new mini-games and features planned for future updates, including a holiday-themed expansion arriving this Christmas.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

Want to get away from the hustle and bustle in the Moscone Centre and just have a good conversation and decent coffee with Dutch games industry professionals? Here you will find game developers, publishers and tool- and tech providers ready to do business. We create games that make you smile”, says CEO Stein Damen. “By

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted A Crash Course on Selling Board Games , which is my way of helping demystify that which terrifies many first-time game developers. Need help on your board game?

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In this guest blog, the Rubber Duck Games team breaks down the journey to developing a boss fight for Evil Wizard – from design and prototyping to animation, testing, balancing, and finalizing the visual effects.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 7, 2024

FlatPonies , a Copenhagen-based game development studio, is finally launching Rebots , a first-person automation game that invites players to explore a universe full of quirky robots and expansive worlds. With over six years of development behind them, Lead Producer Regő Porkoláb has learned some valuable lessons.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Developers need to demonstrate a clear understanding of their game’s full scope, progression, and mechanics, even if those details aren’t immediately visible in an early prototype. To that end, a simple pitch deck and prototype are no longer enough to secure a deal, unless the studio has an established track record.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the last of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Ordering Print-on-Demand Samples for Prototyping.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now, she’s navigating the world of game development, where each day brings new challenges and exciting discoveries. Let’s take a trip back memory lane and find out when the seed of game development was planted and how each part of Kamo’s past adds up. This knowledge helps me create architectural designs in games.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? 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. Just go out and make a great board game for fun.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind.

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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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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Developing a game is no child’s play! Game developers can vouch that the game development landscape does not look as pretty and exciting as it seems. Months, sometimes years of planning, impending deadlines, trials, and corrections go into creating a video game loved by the targeted audience.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I met many of my local testers at Wiscon – many of whom backed the game on Kickstarter.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2024

AI is increasingly being utilized in game development, not just for automation and cost reduction, but also as an innovative gameplay feature. Various games now incorporate versions of Chat GPT to enhance NPC interactions. One notable example is Uncover the Smoking Gun by South Korean studio ReLU Games.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As a result, multiplayer games have revolutionized modern gaming, from human vs. computer to human vs. human interaction. Building multiplayer games can be rewarding and exciting for aspiring game developers. But before that, let’s start with some basics.  Multiplayer game genres are diverse.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Games are more than just what’s in the box. Who is Carla?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1. It saves you a ton of money and time on prototyping.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As game development progresses from initial concept to prototyping to preproduction to production, there are certain major evaluations that the project must pass in order to get the green light to continue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ive been making video games for most of my life, but The Museum of All Things is the biggest game Ive made so far. Its also my first real 3D game. I have prototypes of the game going back a few years, but I started really working on this iteration in November 2024. The museum can be visited in VR.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2021, Kunta Content won at the Africa Game Dev program, a game development training initiative sponsored by Epic MegaGrants and run by NetInfo. Subsequently, they entered the Spielfabrique program, a Franco-German accelerator for young game studios, securing funding from Ubisoft to enhance Hiru’s prototype.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week with Highways & Byways , I’ve been making little improvements to the game to make it more usable and easy-to-understand. Need help on your board game? Click here.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Have you had an excellent game idea but not sure where to start? Or are you an experienced game developer who’s looking to grow the knowledge you already have? The process of game development is a unique experience. What is Game Development? Game development is the process of creating games.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We effectively combined our love for gaming, our skills in the Unreal Engine, with our engineering profession. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It Consequently, they’ve adopted a simple and low-poly visual style for the game.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

One of the most jarring experiences for new game developers is the process of getting their game reviewed. Drama aside, it truly is difficult at first because you have to identify reviewers, send prototypes, make sure your game is ready enough, cross your fingers, and hope they like it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the game development studio Kefir is giving the Godot Engine project a USD 120,000 grant to fund further development of the engine. Thank you Kefir for supporting our free and open source game engine! Many thanks to the Godot team for their incredible contribution to game development.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, I’m going to talk about how we got this game printed. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. What goes into printing a board game? How did we make the game specs? I talked about fulfillment already. What did we do well?

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