Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - May 2015

This month, our roundup of great board game design links features the latest in our series of infographics on licensing contracts, networking tips, PNP advice and more.

featured:

• Designers’ Desires: How to get what you want out of a board game licensing contract
  

process:

• Scott Almes offers a cornucopia of advice about everything from playtesting to prototyping to pitching to the design process and more
  

rules:

• Tips for making your game’s text clean, consistent and clear
  

playtesting:

• “You can never playtest enough. If you think you are done, you are not. Playtest some more.” - Jon Gilmour
  

industry:

• Tips for networking at cons
  

prototyping:

• Tips to make the print-and-play version of your game easy to use
  

theory:

• Data and tips for designing two-player games
  
• “So many people talk about theme and mechanism as if they’re mutually exclusive, as if starting at one precludes ever adapting to the other. But where you start really doesn’t matter. It’s where they intersect at the end. Your game’s story won’t be told through flavor text. It’ll be told at the intersection of where your theme meets its mechanism.” - Gil Hova
  

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