12 questions to help identify the next step in development for your tabletop game, or to help you get a wayward design back on track:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1utzo5NWTfT0ov-JGXSujLocgU_9iM4Jop6t7i-FjYA4/edit

via @npcaaron

How to make game mechanics feel more thematic:

https://shippboardgames.blogspot.com/2023/09/thematic-feeling-mechanisms.html

Digital prototyping tools: board game designers share their favorites:

https://bsky.app/profile/peterlmcpherson.bsky.social/post/3k6bbaflhgn2x

Pitching your board game to a publisher for the first time: tips from the design community:

https://bsky.app/profile/jimmyff.co.uk/post/3k63gkfue6d2o

Intelligent cardboard: a history of different approaches to creating AI systems for tabletop games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9rEIadqGNs

Content marketing for board games: some ways of using content to drive interest and demand for your games (audio):

https://unboxedmarketingpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-9-build-content-to-drive-demand/

Tax considerations for funds raised through crowdfunding:

https://www.fulfillrite.com/blog/are-kickstarter-funds-taxable-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Making a game with polyominoes? Here are a bunch of different methods for prototyping the pieces:

https://bsky.app/profile/perpetualploy.bsky.social/post/3k5inx3nnuf2r

Lots of board game designers share their favorite bits of advice for playtesting:

https://bsky.app/profile/peterlmcpherson.bsky.social/post/3k5n7jfjv232v

An in-depth chat about prototyping and playtesting a board game design, with tips for each (audio):

https://decisionspace.podbean.com/e/playtesting-and-prototyping-this-is-the-podcast-about-the-designing-of-games-%f0%9f%98/

Why you shouldn’t avoid playtesting, common excuses for delaying testing and why they don’t fly, and finding people you can test with:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/08/16/why-you-shouldnt-avoid-playtesting/

Existing games that new designers can modify to learn about board game design—a Bluesky board game design discussion:

https://bsky.app/profile/ajstichter.bsky.social/post/3k54mmogjfg2e

Do board games need victory conditions? A thoughtful reconsidering of an age-old assumption about games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZcDZ1MUjk

Board games can be many things. What are games to you? A Twitter board game design discussion:

https://twitter.com/stuffByBez/status/1691818569108009025

Pros and cons of Tabletop Simulator and other virtual tabletop programs for playtesting, compared to a physical prototype—a Twitter board game design discussion:

https://twitter.com/failfasterjay/status/1689719739470462980?s=20

see also: https://cardboardedison.com/virtual-tabletops

The basics of prototyping, playtesting, and developing tabletop games (video):

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

How games you don’t like can make you a better designer:

https://twitter.com/adriannovell/status/1686148757564559360?s=20

How to make a game that doesn't just work mechanically but is also a lot of fun to play (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVXqi1pyTqw

Following up from the pitch: what to do after showing your board games to a bunch of publishers:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/08/02/mojo-pitch-an-inventors-guide-part-3-the-follow-up/