How board games with licensed intellectual property get made:

https://thepopinsider.com/features/tabletop-games-development/

Player count vs. playtime: thoughts on the tradeoffs that come with various common approaches to scaling a game for more players while keeping its length in check:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/balancing-player-count-and-game-length-in-board-games/

Simple actions you can take to advance your board game design plans right now (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7FDQRJEFeo

Tips for a successful pitch event where you’ll be showing multiple games to many publishers:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/07/26/mojo-pitch-an-inventors-guide-part-2-the-pitch/

“Don’t waste time creating nice card or board designs. Make something functional and test it. The game will go through so many stages that everything you created at the beginning will probably be discarded or modified so much that it will be more work to update than to remake.”

— Roberto Pinheiro

How to prepare for a pitch event where you’ll be showing your game or games to lots of different publishers:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/07/20/mojo-pitch-an-inventors-guide-part-1-before-the-pitch/

How to “find the fun” in your board game design:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/game-design-finding-the-fun/

Playtester makes a mistake and misses a rule? Here’s why you might want to let it go:

https://subsurfacegames.ca/2023/07/20/when-playtesters-have-happy-accidents/

How to design a deck-building game (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-v3Oj9ofFc

4 quick tips for rapid prototyping:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/4-quick-tips-for-rapid-prototyping/

Should you ship your own crowdfunded project? Pros and cons of doing it yourself (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgSf8BeRy5s

8 things pretty much every board game publisher is looking for in a game (video):

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

A process for approaching publishing problems once they’re discovered and systematically addressing them:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/what-to-do-when-things-go-wrong/

Book recommendations for board game designers (Adam in Wales, video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOdai8dc9bk

see also: https://firsttakesomedice.blogspot.com/2023/07/three-books-i-found-useful.html

Scoring in party games: why it can be so hard to create a scoring system in what’s supposed to be a simple game:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/07/14/scoring-in-party-games/

Why the question of theme-first or mechanics-first game design is a false dichotomy (audio):

https://ludology.libsyn.com/thinking-beyond-mechanisms-episode-1

How to calculate shipping costs for your crowdfunding project (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0cBy0GvZ0

Graph theory and some surprising effects that game designers can make use of:

https://gametek.substack.com/p/the-graph-of-con-nection

10 things every board game designer needs (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7cMoP3LHEs

Questions to ask yourself early on in the design process to help you decide how—and whether—to move ahead with a project:

https://thecityofkings.com/news/should-i-make-this-game/