Graphic design tips for improving your board game prototype’s layout and user experience (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnuJZ-DVEs

A simple way of creating custom dice for a board game prototype:

https://bsky.app/profile/scottalmes.bsky.social/post/3kjlvzs6u452p

Materials and tools for making cards for your board game prototype (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SdkIXyZepE

Tips for easier card game prototyping using Excel’s auto-populate features:

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/155669/prototyping-cards-excel-auto-populate-info

This talk offers a range of tricks for better processes around creating and pitching board game designs: using player incentives, magic numbers in games, using components well, meeting industry figures, being persistent, staying on publishers’ radars, and more (video):

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

Tips for making board game icons that work well:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2023/12/06/can-icons-make-or-break-your-game/

A process and equipment for making nice-looking custom dice (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SUD_i6rSgU

This online tool creates blank board game maps of various sizes (hex grids only for now, with others to follow):

https://sparkling-narwhal-68437b.netlify.app/

A potpourri of answers to questions about board game design and publishing: retheming, giving up on a design, complexity, roadblocks, prototyping, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBD1hogt2MY

Websites that can generate maps for board game prototypes:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3176279/map-generator-websites

This color palette generator can help board game designers create more presentable prototypes:

https://coolors.co/

Apiary designer Connie Vogelmann shares seven game design lessons learned working on the game:

https://stonemaiergames.com/7-lessons-learned-designing-apiary-by-connie-vogelmann/

Digital prototyping tools: board game designers share their favorites:

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

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

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/

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

“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

4 quick tips for rapid prototyping:

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

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

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/