Designing around an experience:

https://oakleafgames.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/designing-around-an-experience/

“Be as objective as you can without discouraging yourself. Be as hard on your own games as you are to the games that you play on a normal game night, but don’t let that discourage you and let you stop making games.”

— J. Alex Kevern (@AlexWithIdeas)

“If you want to design games for a living, you always need to have WAY more excellent ideas than time. Like, a 10:1 ratio is a good start.”

— Eric Lang (@eric_lang)

“Listen to yourself. If you ever find yourself wanting to apologize for some aspect of your design, take note of it! See if there’s a way you can remove it.”

— Matt Leacock (@mleacock)

The Meeple Syrup vidcast (@MeepleSyrup) discusses co-designing

Ways to help a game scale well for different player counts:

http://www.3dtotalgames.com/player-count/

How to reach out to reviewers politely:

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/reaching-out-to-reviewers/

Tips for running a playtest at a board game meetup:

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/pints-and-pawns-playtesting-with-london-on-board/

Creating better game experiences with fun density and memorable endings:

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/fun-density-and-colonoscopies/

How to pitch a publisher–and handle the rejection that will likely follow:

http://matthewgravelyn.com/first-rejection/

An introduction to using grids in laying out rulebooks:

http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-quick-introduction-to-typography.html

“When designing games there’s no substitute for actual playtesting. It may work perfectly in your head. That’s usually not true in reality.”

— Ed Marriott (@EdPMarriott)

Reasons not to offer existing products through a new Kickstarter campaign:

http://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter-lesson-142-selling-existing-inventory/

Ben Rosset (@benrosset) offers advice on following your passion, assembling a prototyping kit, overcoming designer’s block, questions to ask playtesters, pitching to a publisher and more:

http://theinquisitivemeeple.com/2015/03/09/designing-meeples-with-ben-rosset

2015 Korea Boardgames Game Design Contest

Deadline: May 29, 2015

Prizes: Cash and possible publication

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1333563/kbg-design-contest-2015-1600-prize-pool

How to create combos that make players feel like alchemists:

http://hyperbolegames.com/2015/03/09/designing-for-alchemy/

On Board Games (@OnBoardGames) discusses narrative arcs in board games with Dirk Knemeyer (@dknemeyer):

http://onboardgames.libsyn.com/obg-153-what-you-want-to-do-is-not-that-interesting

Five ways to know that your in-progress design is worth continuing, and how to go about trying new things to make it work:

http://hyperbolegames.com/2015/03/06/branching-and-experimentation-in-design/

“If someone plays your game and says it’s great, insist that they give you one piece of criticism, no matter how small. After disclosing one complaint, many more might follow.”

— Chris Gosselin of Masquerade Games

Three kinds of down time: plan time, rest time and dead time:

http://www.wiltgren.com/2015/03/06/downtime-vs-dead-time/