Matt Leacock on designing and playtesting cooperative games and legacy games:

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/games-of-emotion-interview-with-game-designer-matt-leacock/

2017 Northwest LUCI Award

Deadline: April 7, 2017

http://playtestnw.com/contests/

“One of the great parts of working in a super crowded design space (zombies, dungeons) is that the audience already gets the premise. However, where most people fail is not sufficiently setting themselves apart from their peers in the genre. You have to differ meaningfully.”

— Grant Rodiek

“Don’t be scared to show a terrible game to peers. Other designers will be very understanding and everything needs to come from somewhere.”

— Behrooz Shahriari

Options for tracking money in games:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1727548/making-change-analysis-money-board-game-design

2017 Two-Player Print and Play Game Design Contest

Deadline: May 1, 2017

Prizes: GeekGold

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1726893/2017-two-player-print-and-play-game-design-contest

Some quick calculations to help decide how many cards you'll need:

http://www.3dtotalgames.com/how-many-cards/

How multi-use cards can be used in games (audio):

http://ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-episode-145-six-ways-from-sunday

Designing cutthroat, take-that games (video)

The designer and the artist: making a game that looks great but also works for players (audio):

http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/the-intersection-of-art-and-game-design-with-ryan-laukat/

Tips for designing a heavy game:

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/designingheaviergames/

More than 375,000 public-domain images available through The Met:

http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2017/open-access-at-the-met

Advice for working with artists on a game project (audio):

http://www.genesisoflegend.com/2017/02/episode107/

How to make a name in board games by helping others (video)

Lists of various ways dice can be used in a game:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/221532/hard-find-geeklists-dice-mechanics

What makes for interesting choices in a game--a Reddit tabletop game design forum discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tabletopgamedesign/comments/5ropk4/what_makes_for_interesting_choices/

Advice for creating a story-driven game (audio):

http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/the-importance-of-story-in-games-with-jerry-hawthorne/

Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - January 2017

This month our list of excellent board game design links includes advice for early in the design process, thoughts on randomness from an expert, a crucial point about using other designers' ideas, plus a special appearance by us!

contests:

• Advice for participating in board game design contests (audio)

process:

• The first things you should work on when starting a design

theory:

• How to use randomness well (audio)

publishing:

• Tips for commissioning artwork

industry:

• Jamey Stegmaier: What I wish I had known before I got into board game design (audio)
• "Honor among thieves": How to steal game ideas responsibly (audio)

rules:

• “If a rule is difficult to explain in words or easily forgotten, consider cutting it.” - Sen-Foong Lim

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Cardboard Edison is supported by our patrons on Patreon.

ADVISERS: Peter C. Hayward, Aaron Vanderbeek

SENIOR INVENTORS: Steven Cole, John du Bois, Richard Durham, Koen Hendrix, Chris and Kathy Keane (The Drs. Keane), Marcel Perro, Behrooz Shahriari

JUNIOR INVENTORS: Ryan Abrams, Joshua Buergel, Luis Lara, Aidan Short, Jay Treat

ASSOCIATES: Robert Booth, Stephen B Davies, Doug Levandowski, Aaron Lim, Nathan Miller, Isaias Vallejo, Matt Wolfe

APPRENTICES: Kiva Fecteau, Scott Gottreu, JR Honeycutt, Knight Works, Scott Martel Jr., David J. Mortimer, Mike Mullins, Marcus Ross, Sean Rumble, Diane Sauer

How components affect the way a game plays and how it's produced (audio):

http://www.buzzsprout.com/3256/469045-the-one-about-bits-pieces

The requirement for the February 2017 24-hour contest is "honey":

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1719002/24-hour-contest-february-2017