Our latest infographic shows how the board game design community, publishers, and licensing contracts have changed in recent years:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/board-game-59032465

Pitching to reviewers: do’s and don’ts, pitfalls to avoid, and best practices to follow when promoting your game (video)

Early steps in board game design: pointers for making your first prototype:

https://lootbaggames.wordpress.com/2021/11/19/the-leap-from-imaginative-to-creative-making-a-prototype/

A conversation about how games can create rewarding experiences for players (video)

Reviewing your game’s digital and physical proofs: why it’s so important and how to do it:

https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/why-reviewing-your-digital-and-physical-proofs-thoroughly-is-so-important/

What makes you want to work with a co-designer? A Twitter board game design community discussion:

https://twitter.com/Drawnonward/status/1462164093758935041

A defense of “point salad” games and incremental progress toward a win condition:

http://sedjtroll.blogspot.com/2019/01/incremental-progress-and-point-salads.html

5 advantages of making board games (that aren’t money):

http://www.niallcrabtree.com/blog/the-advantages-of-making-board-games-that-isnt-money

Game design lessons, revisited with eight more years of experience (video)

A discussion about the dichotomy between a games structure, and it's content (audio)

https://omny.fm/shows/fun-problems/19-structure-vs-content

What does the future look like when you lose your partner who is also your co-designer? (audio)

http://www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-492-the-journey-forward/

A quick overview of some ways publishers can collaborate with each other:

https://stonemaiergames.com/co-publishing-is-true-collaboration-possible/

What makes a great “wow” moment in a mass-market game?

https://mojo-nation.com/talking-games-splat-pie-face-lift-off-drone-home-makes-great-wow-moment-games-must-mass-market/

The basic steps in finalizing and submitting your game’s files to the manufacturer:

https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/how-to-finalize-and-submit-files-to-your-manufacturer/

How to import a set of cards into Tabletop Simulator:

https://blog.tabletopsimulator.com/blog/create-cards-for-your-game-with-tts

Potential customers’ repeated exposure to your game helps raise awareness of and engagement with it. Here are some ways that can happen in the real world:

https://stonemaiergames.com/the-impact-of-repetition/

Why you should write your rulebooks in the second person:

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/124785/writing-rules-pronouns

Using creative constraints to design tabletop games (video)

Breaking down the cost of a board game: Where does all the money go?

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/123110/kickstarter-games-price-breakdown

Input randomness vs. output randomness and when one might be better than the other—a Reddit tabletop game designers forum discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tabletopgamedesign/comments/qrmplc/do_you_think_input_randomness_is_always_better/