Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Click here. The subtlest of tweaks are all that’s needed at this point. This is somewhat of a mysterious process for a lot of game developers, as I pointed out in my article this week: A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion. In fact, a healthy plurality of my traffic comes from email clicks.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Development studio Gametopia has translated their love and admiration for the works of the author into an original tale, told through a pixel perfect point-and-click adventure. And from there we make a detailed script, then a level design and start prototyping. The influence of his work on our culture is enormous.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2018

I really don't want to only be known as "the guy that created Monkey Island and made point-and-click games" and that's all anyone wants to hear me talk about. So my 2018 goal is to give a talk about a non-monkey-island-point-and-click topic. It would depress me greatly if that was actually the truth.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 22, 2020

There is a bi-weekly game prototype group I would meet up with and I do miss that. It all started from having this idea about how to do a better point-and-click interface. At this point the engine is 100% working and it feels a lot better. It can't run TWP dues to a complete removal of the UI code from the engine.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 22, 2020

There is a bi-weekly game prototype group I would meet-up with and I do miss that. It all started from having this idea about how to do a better point-and-click interface. At this point the engine is 100% working and it feels a lot better. It can't run TWP dues to a complete removal of the UI code from the engine.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I really don’t want to only be known as “the guy that created Monkey Island and made point-and-click games” and that’s all anyone wants to hear me talk about. So my 2018 goal is to give a talk about a non-monkey-island-point-and-click topic.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Click here. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. This is a checklist I like to check off before I start final testing: Get the physical prototype ready. Just about every game has some variation of this concern at some point.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 19, 2017

Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. prior to and during its Kickstarter campaign, but it is also my favorite rapid prototyping tool. Digital play testing is an excellent way to reduce the costs of developing early board game prototypes. Just here for Highways & Byways updates?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Click here. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had dozens of people blind play-test Highways & Byways , but there are diminishing returns once you hit a certain point. Granted, it might take you a long time to get to this point, but if your first three or four blind play-tests go well in this regard, you’re probably fine.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Click here. In fact, I think the point of diminishing return is somewhere in the dozens before your own personal experimentation and experience teaches you more than broad exposure to games will. Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A lot of people obsess over CPC (cost per click) or impressions (number of ad views). What’s important about all the metrics above is that you want to watch the amount of revenue your ads are bringing in, not necessarily the cost per click. If your cost-per-click is $1.00 ” Metrics for Ad Spending.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 21, 2017

Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Turns out, this week’s development of Highways & Byways illustrates my point pretty well. We’re doing rapid prototyping. Just here for Highways & Byways updates? Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Click here. Every opinion – however misinformed you may believe to be – is a data point. As in rigorous scientific experiments, data points are to be gathered accurately and then interpreted later. At some point, no matter how simple your game, you’ll have someone who doesn’t read the rules.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Rami Ismail Click away in seconds Working in games is a communication minefield: multidisciplinary communications, both internal and external, with the purpose of alignment or selling ideas. Or if you’re writing a store page or a video script, people click away in seconds.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 23, 2024

Development studio Gametopia has translated their love and admiration for the works of the author into an original tale, told through a pixel perfect point-and-click adventure. And from there we make a detailed script, then a level design and start prototyping. The influence of his work on our culture is enormous.

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Fantasy Pixel Point and Click Art 104

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Click here. I’ll be flying to Hawaii using my long-since saved up travel points and SkyMiles. I’ve also paid out the nose for prototype copies. Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

We believe for a Metaverse to exist, anyone should be able to access it anywhere, anytime, as easily as one click. Star Life will allow players to access the Metaverse with just one click on any browser, with no downloads or installations required. Imagine if you organize a virtual concert in Star Life that starts in a few minutes.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Click here. 2: I did not order a prototype prior to manufacturing from the same company that printed. This is actually separate from the previous point. Bear in mind that by this point, I’d already failed at Kickstarter once. As a result, very few people clicked on them. See which Kickstarters get backed.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. Imagine, car companies can do preliminary tests to measure how a new vehicle concept will perform even before building a prototype! He also enjoys writing science fiction in what little spare time he has.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 19, 2018

Click here. It’s no secret that board game prototypes are expensive, so you want to get the greatest authority and reach possible. Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? The Strategy of Reaching Out.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! This is where most of the rules have been ironed out and are acceptable enough to use during a prototype either in person or online through something like Tabletopia or Tabletop simulator. I ended up implementing a light action point system to increase number of player choices.

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've been fascinated by board games that revolve around drafting for years now, and in early 2011 I wrote a post on the pillars that make these games click. I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece.

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Filmustage

MAY 17, 2022

Be one of the first to test the new functionality - click here for more detailed information. Technical specialist Rob Legato assembled a prototype of a "virtual" camera from spare parts. By pointing the device at the actor, you could see a fully simulated image of the character. The technology was called Performance Capture.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? It’s important to recognize what exactly ATT is: iOS14 launched back in September, but Apple delayed the rollout of ATT until “early 2021.”

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

It seems like a small thing, but many producers point out that the synopsis helps to navigate the blocks of information through your scheduling stripes. Celtx claims to be game-industry friendly, which clearly broadens its profile with story maps and rapid prototyping tools.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad. Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated).

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The menu’s we have implemented so far would need to be interacted with either by touch (such as if we published the game to mobile) or by mouse click (publish web, Mac or PC). In this lesson, we will implement this menu. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view! You can read more about that by clicking on any of these articles. Another minor issue that we resolved shortly after receiving our first Tasty Humans prototype was ink oversaturation on the box and the rules. What goes into printing a board game? What did we do well?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

Something clicked for me. Repeat yourself as appropriate and ask your audience if there are any points that need to be clarified. Overall, as a pain point, this is a bittersweet one. Tabletop Simulator – as much as I love it and recommend it for rapid prototyping – often does the same. I have no idea why.

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

By this point, the introduction to the Game module is over. When the users click on the START button, the level Action in the action-game.json will be executed. Opening level.ts , we can see that the message is listened for in its init function: Msg.on('level_do', this.do.bind(this)); The prototype of the do function in level.ts

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Note that the point of the Energy system in Frontierville was to ration out progress (so you don’t burn out on the game) which creates friction and, thus, a potential microtransaction. This was an odd little moment in time, by the way.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. At this point, many readers might have noticed that Godot was created to develop games this way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And the point is that you… because you get so used to selling the idea, ultimately you'd know nothing about that idea until you market tested it, until you've, like, started building it, until you start getting some data. Gigi brought up a good point about the kinds of companies I sort of have three in my head about video games.

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