The benefits of cultivating your personal brand as a board game designer:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2025/02/04/your-personal-brand-as-a-designer/

Board game development: How different publishers approach turning a signed prototype into a published game, best practices, the role of the designer, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9shDo0_fows

Can you make a living from board game design? Breaking down some of the issues that make it hard to earn a stable income as a game designer (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9g2o5WqHU

Understanding your game’s audience: how knowing the key characteristics and desires of the demographic can help you make a game that satisfies the core consumer by design (audio):

https://ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-335-whos-this-for

How various modern board games approach handicap systems that allow players of different skill levels to compete—a Bluesky board game designers discussion:

https://bsky.app/profile/gengelstein.bsky.social/post/3lgwlcoulc22j

This site lets board game designers share info about their games, including photos and videos, with publishers:

https://www.boardgameprototypes.com/

The 4 biggest challenges to creating anything (like a board game) and how to overcome them:

https://stonemaiergames.com/the-4-biggest-challenges-to-creating-anything-and-how-to-overcome-them/

Game arcs: why they matter and some common types of arcs in board games:

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/game-arcs

What do conventions offer for board game publishers, and how can companies make the most of them? (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7pUq2FZlg

This panel discussion is filled with pointers and tips for making good marketing choices when you need to get your tabletop game in front of potential buyers (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv6fLPSkUE

Tips for getting your board game design ready to enter into a board game design competition—like, you know, our own Cardboard Edison Award (video):

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

A discussion about trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy in tabletop gaming, and the legal and practical challenges facing game creators (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEBN7kUw4gA

Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for use in prototypes:

https://www.phylopic.org/

How to prevent players from ending up with the same few scores, with a little help from quantum physics:

part 1: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEryopmqaq5/?img_index=1

part 2: https://www.instagram.com/p/DE-g9fgM6LS/?img_index=1

This website lets board game designers collect feedback from playtesters, build a mailing list for their games, and more:

https://www.playtestfeedback.com/

Two publishers discuss how they find and sign games, what they want out of a designer pitch, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yn7XAHw6n8

How to design a game for a non-gaming brand: questions to ask, setting your price, managing the project, setting expectations for the client, and more:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2025/01/15/designing-games-for-brands/

Co-designing: The ins and outs of making board games with another designer (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ht-xqUC8fg

So you have an idea for a game—what next? A Reddit board game design forum discussion about the earliest stages of working on a design:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoardgameDesign/comments/1hztygf/how_do_you_start/

3 tips for how to start designing your first board game (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Urh-jDShY