Making a sell sheet Imagine you've made a fantastic game. You just don't have the time and money to publish the game yourself and have decided to offer your game to a publisher. (read more about the choice between publishing a game yourself or through a publisher here). Then...
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Interview with the game designer of 'Adventures in Neverland' ”As starting game designers, we want nothing more than to release a good game ourselves, whether or not through a Kickstarter. Vicky Swers has undergone this adventure and released her game 'Adventures in Neverland' in collaboration with Black Box Adventures. A great success story with which they ...
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Do you need to protect your game idea? Recently, we got the tip from a reader to write something in our basic guide on how to protect your game idea. Not a bad tip, because many novice game designers are left with the question whether and how they can protect their game ideas and whether they should give them up somewhere ...
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Making your own game If you want to make and publish a game yourself, a lot is coming your way. We are in the middle of this ourselves and already have a number of games in different phases of development. In a series of different blog posts, we also try to help you get started ...
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Dungeon Master vs Game Designer Now that I have experience both designing board games and being a Dungeon Master, I recognize many similarities between the two. This is perhaps not surprising given that both focus on coming up with creative ways to entertain a company. In this blog post ...
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What are cooperative games? Co-op, co-op or cooperative games are games in which the players work together towards a common goal. It is the opposite of a competitive game where the players often win or lose individually. In a cooperative game, the players win or lose together. These kinds of games have been ...
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At NiNi Games we are not only busy developing our own games, we also keep a close eye on the current games market. This is of course largely for inspiration, namely: the more you play, the more you learn! But besides game makers, we are also just game fanatics. We regularly put a game on the table, together ...
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What is luck as a game mechanic? Happiness comes from a combination of randomness and hidden information. Factors that you cannot predict with certainty. Without luck you could calculate the outcome of a game early and every choice is clearly right or wrong. Luck is often used in games. Most for the ...
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When to make a prototype? If you want to make a game yourself, you can have a lot of ideas. However, an idea is worthless until you do something with it. The first step you should take as soon as possible is to put your ideas on paper. For a game this can be done very easily by ...
Read moreGame fairs One of the best ways to market your game is to participate in board game events. In addition to the fact that your audience (board game enthusiasts) walk around here, you can also learn a lot from other designers and publishers. In 2020 many events have been canceled due to Corona and there is no view yet ...
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