Tips for playtesting and pitching, from the SAZ game designers convention:

https://arjanvanhouwelingen.com/2025/06/02/saz-gotting-game-designer-convention/

First things first when getting into tabletop game design: how the industry is organized, mass market vs. hobby games, how pitching tends to work, and more:

https://www.marygeorgescu.com/blog/2025/6/2/getting-into-tabletop-game-design

Myths many board game designers believe about the importance of ideas, how to playtest, attracting a publisher, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOgM4zjKQW8

Publishing considerations for the game box and packaging: artwork, the back of the box, box size, alternatives to boxes, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdeM-vg__4

Kickstarter’s head of games on serving backers, common crowdfunding mistakes, pledge levels, and more:

https://stonemaiergames.com/interview-with-kickstarters-new-head-of-games/

How three different types of contracts in board games work: licensing an intellectual property for tabletop, signing a designer’s game, and overseas publishing partnerships:

https://strebecklaw.com/board-game-licensing/

A few different ways of using deadlines to keep your board game design efforts moving (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-OzV3DVYc

10 steps for designing your first tabletop game (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoRVn6DrBJ4

What’s behind a successful co-design partnership? Here are stories from people who design games together:

https://peopleofplay.com/blog/gray-matters-games-joe-barron-game-changers-who-go-it-together

Ways to keep your crowdfunding project’s backers excited and engaged in the middle of a campaign:

https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/kickstarter-lessons-how-to-keep-your-backers-excited-and-engaged-both-during-and-after-your-campaign/

Traditional games that are worth learning, and how they’ve influenced modern hobby games:

https://punchboard.substack.com/p/traditional-games-theyre-way-more

Things to think about when you’re coming up with a name for your board game business:

https://stonemaiergames.com/choosing-a-company-name-and-impersonation/

Thoughts on what happens when the winner is clear, player psychology in those moments, concession rules, and more:

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/garbage-time

Staying polite as a crowdfunder: why you should always be professional with backers—even when they aren’t:

https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/kickstarter-lessons-always-be-professional-and-polite-even-when-your-backers-arent/

A wide-ranging board game designer Q&A session, touching on topics from prototyping supplies to beginners’ advice, learning from playtesters, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wrKglWfDQ

Tips for how to go about designing simple games with as little as one single mechanic:

https://www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2025/05/12/designing-games-with-a-single-mechanic/

How to design a trivia game (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmaLV5EV2wI

Rewards and punishments—how different ways of incentivizing players feel:

https://bsky.app/profile/senfoonglim.bsky.social/post/3loqicg2mcs2m

The five-part video series Abletop explores various forms of accessibility in tabletop games and how games can be made more accessible to various audiences:

rulebook accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSdnX2Ci0o

mobility accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awjFmRxy2Jo

visual accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEEEskUfTH8

cognitive accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc9vTeHxXk8

communication accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAgm0Nm0h8

30 games that break the “rules” of how board games typically work (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAiQ0gwNjU