Questions about the business, legal, and packaging aspects of making a new game.
Questions tagged [game-development]
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Where I can buy good resources to build games?
Where I can buy boards, cards, dice, fake money, figures, and any sort of pieces? It would be nice if the store sells on the internet.
Another good reason is to buy replacements for damaged or lost pieces.
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How to make a hexagonal board?
Two of my friends and I are developing a board game based on moving around a hexagonal board. We're testing it on the map printed on 4x A4 sheets merged with adhesive tape. What I'm trying now is to make it on a cork board.
Do you guys have any…
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Do board game publishers design games 'in house', or do they merely publish games by external designers?
My understanding is that a book publisher typically publishes the work of an author, and takes responsibility for the printing and distribution of the book, and take some kind of percentage of the sales of the book.
Are board games published in a…
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Board Games development online course
Are there any online courses like codecademy.com or teamtreehouse.com for Board Games development? Or something similar where you can learn BG development? Also if you know any other useful resources like books, videos and similar things, please…
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What do board game publishers do? What are the difference between them?
Board games are usually published by one of a variety of different board game publishers - such as Fantasy Flight or Z-Man Games.
My question is - what do the publishers do - and what's the difference between them?
Do board game publishers act much…
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which software to use to make the rules's game?
I begin to write rules of my game on Word, but there is something better ? to manage images, backgrounds... etc ?
how are the rules of professional games created ?
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What tools are being used by companies producing connectable floor tiles?
After seeing more and more games like Zombicide using large floormaps that can connect to one another (either by being layable side by side without a hitch or even having connecting parts so that they can't be ripped apart too easily again), I've…
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Implement unique occurrence against each other
I am trying to develop a card game, in which I have a situation like I need to present cards against each other in such a way so that they have never played with each other. So in general, I will have two different stack of cards, and they will be…
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