“It’ll take many years to become skilled enough to sell your games, but the sooner you take that goal seriously and start trading critiques with other designers, the faster you’ll get there.”

— Jay Treat

A look at the "crescendo" mechanism where something in a game gets progressively more valuable:

http://claycrucible.com/2017/04/crescendo-mechanic/

How to take a good game and make it great (audio):

http://onboardgames.libsyn.com/obg-243-from-good-to-great

“Always think about the player experience at the table. What are players physically doing? What are they feeling? How can you improve that?”

— Kevin Wilson

“Imprint yourself on your designs. Own them, love them, care for them.”

— JR Honeycutt

Data and considerations around publishers' customer acquisition costs:

https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter-lesson-225-customer-and-subscriber-acquisition-costs/

Advice for creating content that helps others and builds goodwill in the industry (audio):

http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/content-as-marketing-with-chris-rowlands/

A discussion about working with a co-designer, playtesting and using feedback, bringing a game to Kickstarter, and more (audio):

http://yourtablesonfire.com/2017/04/18/episode-51-peak-oil/

How theme, immersion and player stakes interact (audio):

http://breakingintoboardgames.libsyn.com/breaking-into-board-games-episode-41-hosts-talk-theme-and-immersion

Unexpected things that can happen to you as a publisher (audio):

http://onboardgames.libsyn.com/obg-242-expect-the-unexpected

Seven ways to improve the quality of your playtest feedback (audio):

http://theforbiddenlimb.libsyn.com/top-7-ways-to-improve-your-playtest-feedback-quality-ep-55

Lessons learned designing nano-sized adaptions of games:

http://www.theindiegamereport.com/nanodaptions/

Designing for different player counts (audio):

http://tinkerbotgames.com/season-3-episode-2-how-many-players/

Design trends, the design process, commissioned IPs, and when to resurrect projects (audio):

http://dicehateme.com/2017/04/the-state-of-games-ep-127-the-one-about-intelligent-design/

All about drafting (audio). Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Playtesting like a pro (audio):

http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/how-to-playtest-like-a-pro-with-rob-daviau/

Ways in which risk/rewards decisions can be implemented in games:

https://davidmullich.com/2017/04/10/implementing-riskreward-decisions-in-games/

Icon-creation tool:

https://www.autodraw.com/

All about worker placement. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (audio)

“When designing, your goal is to generate an ‘oo-OOO-oo’ response from your players. All 3 syllables. Get them excited just hearing the rules.”

— Stephen Glenn