I am a gamedeveloper that want's to bring his first game to BGA

[BigDaddyXD]

Hi everyone,

my name ist Marcel. I am from germany, and i have developed a boardgame that, short form, fills the gap between Catan and highly complex games, that i struggle to find players in real life. That's why i have developed "Lost Realm" in the last months.
I have just completed the second playtest version, and have a physical copy and the digital assets for all components for the game.

Now i would like to build the game in BGA, to speed up gametesting, and allow more players to join the playtesting and provide Feedback.

I am a Web-Developer fluent in HTML, PHP and Javascript anyways, so that sounds like just the right thing to do.

But now i have stumbled upon several problems: When i was trying to login to studio.boardgamearena.com, it said that the Username is not already in use, and i was able to create a second "BigDaddyXD" account, with the exact same mailadress as my prime "BGA"-Gamer account. Can anyone help me with that? I would love to just use my general account that i had for years now, for the development part, too

The other problem is that i can't seem to (am allowed to) create a project. All i get is this error message:

Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred...

Not authorized adminstudionewproject (reference: GS0 30/01 17:31:11)

>> Get me out of here <<

#0 /var/tournoi/release/tournoi-250130-1023/www/index.php(340): launchWebAction('...', '...', '...', false, false, NULL, true, false)
#1 {main}

Any help is highly appreciated.

[xiongmao1298]

BGA studio uses separate accounts from the main site, so registering a new one is the right thing to do. When you register with <name> on BGA studio, it will end up creating multiple accounts <name>0, <name>1, <name>2, etc. I believe only <name>0 has rights to create new projects. You could still try to register with the same name as here, but it will append the numbers to the account in any case.

[BigDaddyXD]

Oh okay. So i would need to create a different Accountname for my Dev-Account? Is that right?

[RicardoRix]

Oh okay. So i would need to create a different Accountname for my Dev-Account? Is that right?

They are separate websites. You need an account for each site. You can use the same name if you want.

[BigDaddyXD]

Okay, but as i wrote above, somehow i can't seem to create a project... So i wonder why that is...