How to effectively frame your Kickstarter project’s potential:
Outlining your game with decision diagrams. Includes links to some programs:
http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/24057/outlining-your-game-with-decision-diagrams
Betrayal: how it can occur in games and how to encourage or discourage it:
http://nothingsacredgames.com/betrayal-in-the-game-from-the-box/
The Building the Game podcast (@PodcastBTG) discusses giving and receiving feedback:
http://www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/2013/10/20/episode-73-feedback-and-freefall/
Aldo Ghiozzi of Impressions Game Distribution Services joins Board Game University to discuss the game industry, Kickstarter, distribution and more:
http://boardgameuniversity.libsyn.com/board-game-university-episode-21-aldo-ghiozzi
A guide to the rondel mechanism:
http://www.islaythedragon.com/2013/10/round-and-round-guide-to-rondel-mechanic.html
How to plan an Unpub Mini playtesting event:
http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/24051/planning-an-unpub-mini
Tips and tricks from the trenches of paper prototyping:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130814/the_siren_song_of_the_paper_.php?page=2
Grant Rodiek (@HerrohGrant) on writing flavor text:
http://hyperbolegames.com/2013/10/17/writing-flavor-text/
See also: Mark Rosewater (@maro254) on the same subject:
http://dtwtranscripts.blogspot.com/2013/09/92013-episode-54-flavor-text-special.html
Daniel Solis (@DanielSolis) breaks down the money he makes as an independent game designer:
http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/hey-daniel-hows-business-so-far.html
See also: The cost of being a game designer, by Chevee Dodd (@cheveedodd):
Looking to “white spaces”–unexplored areas–for inspiration:
http://trollitc.com/2013/10/game-school-designing-in-the-white-space-and-hunting-mistakes/
The Three Moves Ahead podcast (@3MA) discusses playtesting, feedback, and making games work:
http://threemovesahead.libsyn.com/episode-235-a-tough-row-tahoe
Related article: How to read your playtesters:
Mark Rosewater (@maro254) on writing flavor text:
http://dtwtranscripts.blogspot.com/2013/09/92013-episode-54-flavor-text-special.html
The On Board Games podcast (@OnBoardGames) discusses emotions in games:
http://onboardgames.libsyn.com/obg-118-the-lamentations-of-the-meeples
