Some different ways that wargames approach “sequences of play”—what happens on players’ turns—and how they affect the feel of the game:

https://hollandspiele.com/blogs/hollandazed-thoughts-ideas-and-miscellany/sequences-of-play

Gamers weigh in: What makes a game replayable?

https://twitter.com/MinimumPlayerCt/status/1293317716258910208

Tips for taking extraordinary photos of board games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2YZA86vsX390VZ8QA2p0Lny3FIreebZ_

Designers discuss if they consider whether a game is “marketable” while working on it:

https://twitter.com/robinwriting/status/1292763911406661638

“Not every game idea is playable. Not every playable game is good. Not every good game is publishable. Not every publishable game is marketable. And not every marketable game will find an audience.”

— Steve Dee

Considering why Monopoly’s folk rules exist, and what game designers can learn from that:

http://www.phantomknightgames.com/news/a-tale-of-two-monopolies/

Notes on wargame creation from designer Brian Train: choosing a conflict to model, the design process, unconventional conflicts, and more:

https://www.diagonalmove.com/interview-brian-train-designer-of-colonial-twilight-and-brief-border-wars/

How to make your game accommodate higher player counts:

http://www.weirdgiraffegames.com/carla/wordpress/2020/08/10/increasing-player-count/

Thoughts on how the board game industry—and the conventional wisdom about it—is changing:

https://brandonthegamedev.com/in-the-board-game-industry-the-rules-always-change/

Common and not-so-common supplies for making board game prototypes, and where to find them (video)

Tips for running a tabletop game Kickstarter campaign, directly from Kickstarter’s games team (video)

Suggested software for creating rulebooks—a BoardGameGeek designers forum discussion:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2479752/rules-booklet

Board game developers: who they are, what they do, and how their role is evolving with the industry (audio):

Part 1: https://dicetowernews.libsyn.com/dice-tower-now-689-july-6-2020 (9:44-17:00)

Part 2: https://dicetowernews.libsyn.com/dice-tower-now-691-july-20-2020 (4:44-12:50)

Part 3: https://dicetowernews.libsyn.com/dice-tower-now-693-august-3-2020 (6:53-13:20)

“Ideas are great when they’re in your head, but you can’t really figure out just how much promise it has until you get it into a workable, playable prototype.”

— Jason Brooks

Lots of pointers for requesting manufacturing quotes:

https://www.manokentgames.com/post/quotes-components-and-companies

Advanced scripting in Tabletop Simulator: how to create an automated setup button (video)

What are the most important things to keep in mind about prototypes? A Twitter board game designers discussion:

https://twitter.com/WhoWhatWhyCast/status/1290292176367357952

Swinginess 101: the basics of dice probabilities and how they change the feel of a die roll:

https://twitter.com/ammourazz/status/1290773146187046912

Six points for successfully pitching your game to a publisher in-person…

https://mrbossdesign.blogspot.com/2020/07/six-points-for-pitching-to-publishers.html

…and six points for pitching to a publisher virtually:

https://mrbossdesign.blogspot.com/2020/07/six-pointers-for-virtually-pitching-to.html

Tabletop industry veterans on how to design games, game design theory, where game design is headed, and what kinds of games people are making in 2020 (video)