Why you need to stop worrying about protecting your board game idea:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/06/24/why-you-need-to-stop-worrying-about-protecting-your-idea/

Three easy ways to make your game’s fulfillment more eco-friendly:

https://stonemaiergames.com/3-easy-ways-to-make-game-fulfillment-more-eco-friendly/

Answers to questions about Kickstarter and how board game makers can best use it to fund their projects (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kNjlnizlTM

Old Maps Online has lots of historical maps plus tools to edit them:

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

Designing board games on a budget: How can you make games, test games, and sell them, when you have no money to invest? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgl3Ub8m8a0

A counter-approach to minimizing “feel bad” moments through design:

https://twitter.com/eric_lang/status/1669389317158862887

Development: the ambiguities of what can happen to a game design between signing and publication:

https://faidutti.com/blog/blog/2023/06/11/entre-creation-et-edition-les-ambiguites-du-developpement-dun-jeu-between-design-and-publication-the-ambiguities-of-game-development/

Why you should design board games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKLc8n1F6d8

10 steps to create a tabletop game company:

https://stonemaiergames.com/10-steps-to-create-a-tabletop-game-company/

The designer of Radlands has a website with lots of articles about various aspects of board game design. We’ve pulled out some of the best on design theory:

https://daniel.games/the-depth-complexity-ratio.htm

https://daniel.games/relatability.htm

https://daniel.games/big-moves.htm

https://daniel.games/calculation-vs-intuition.htm

https://daniel.games/ramps.htm

https://daniel.games/interlinking.htm

https://daniel.games/player-interaction.htm

https://daniel.games/work.htm

https://daniel.games/tension.htm

https://daniel.games/feelbad-situations.htm

https://daniel.games/awesome-things.htm

https://daniel.games/types-of-fun.htm

https://daniel.games/accumulation.htm

https://daniel.games/consequential-actions.htm

https://daniel.games/reducing-complexity.htm

https://daniel.games/randomness.htm

https://daniel.games/resources.htm

https://daniel.games/access.htm

https://daniel.games/spatial-systems.htm

https://daniel.games/making-sure-the-game-ends.htm

https://daniel.games/scaling.htm

https://daniel.games/aesthetic-patterns-in-design.htm

One of this year’s Spiel des Jahres nominees offers tips for designing board games that will appeal to mass-market players (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5Jq7fgSlE

10 tips for showing off your board game at a convention:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/10-tips-for-conventions/

Actually, make that 20:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/10-more-tips-for-conventions/

How games can inspire delight in players:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/06/01/designing-games-with-delight/

Thoughts on how board game designers can use “Memory Palace” techniques to create better experiences for players:

https://gametek.substack.com/p/method-of-loci

Lots of advice for up-and-coming board game designers from the design community on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/BreakMyGameG/status/1660711395116163072

Betting and bluffing: games that use the mechanics, how they work, and the kinds of experiences they offer for players (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOK1-wInoSU

Deck-building games: an overview of how they’ve evolved since Dominion:

https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/05/23/deck-building-a-modern-card-mechanism-topic-discussion/

Scorekeeping: the tradeoffs that come with various common methods of tracking scores:

http://www.weirdgiraffegames.com/carla/wordpress/2023/05/24/components-for-tracking-scores/

Going into board game publishing means managing money—here are the big things to keep track of and how much of a financial cushion you might need for each:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/managing-your-money/

5 excuses board game designers make that hold them back—and why they’re no excuse not to move ahead with your design efforts (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fkn-JgYzeY