Help for develop

Of course there is also creative help around the development of games that can be used. Here are some contacts you can use:

• The team of www.spielmaterial.de
• Professional authors within the Game Designer Guild
• at the meeting Göttingen Game Designer's Meeting every year on the first weekend of June
• at the SPIEL games fair in Essen in October
• at the Game Author's Conference, every year in March in Weilburg/Hessen
• at various game designer meetings

In our shop you will also find suitable literature for self-study :

• Leitfaden für Spieleerfinder - The right book for beginners providing an overview into the world of inventing games

• Spieleentwickeln - The results of the Weilburger author meetings coming out every year with a different focus
• The Art of Game Design - This book shows that the same basic psychological principles that work for board games, card and sports games, are the key to the development of high quality games.

You can find further information here:

• Fragen zur Reflektion (by Friedemann Friese)
• test report
• How is a game created? (by Projekt Spiel)
• Encyclopedia of Game Development

Sind Sie mit Ihrem Spiel schon den Schritt weiter - das Spiel ist nach ihrer Meinung fertig - dann werden auf einmal andere Aspekte der Spieleentwicklung bedeutsam. Schauen Sie sich einmal diese Abschnitte an:

Are you ready with your game for the next step - you think your game is done - then suddenly other aspects of game development become significant. Take a look at these sections:

• I want to present my game.

• I want to test/optimize my game.

• I want to publish and produce my game.

• I want to market my game.