What’s your best playtesting advice? A Bluesky board game designers discussion:

https://bsky.app/profile/gregisonthego.bsky.social/post/3m4j56fvbvs2q

Inka and Markus Brand on designing games as a couple and as a family:

https://thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/inka-and-markus-brand-our-minds-are-always-buzzing-with-ideas-for-games

The Daniel.games game design advice website has been updated with new and revised articles:

https://daniel.games/

An introduction to online playtesting (video):

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

A short thread on how potential customers browse at a game store and what designers can learn from it:

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinwilson42.bsky.social/post/3m3zqjfqi3c2b

Tips for designing board games with strong narratives (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmJ1IALfGc

Some concrete tips for keeping your playtesters happy, through your pitch, your teach, the prototype, and the design itself:

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/happy-playtesters

Marketing board games: tips for how to reveal a new game, run ads for a crowdfunding campaign, purchase paid marketing, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZoSEACOw9E

Ways to move forward when you're feeling stuck as a game designer (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjYywuqJBM

Aspects of the tabletop industry that can contribute to burnout for board game designers (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2rC_8F10R8

Fragile mechanics: what makes a game mechanic particularly fragile?

http://www.sjgames.com/ill/a/2025-10-12

Before finalizing a production run with a manufacturer, here are the final steps to consider about your print run:

https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/getting-your-game-manufactured-after-locking-in-your-orders/

When making a historical game, how to decide what to include and what to leave out? A Bluesky board game designers discussion:

https://bsky.app/profile/biffybeans.bsky.social/post/3m2d575y6mk2y

Player psychographics: how archetypes of different players and what they want from games can help designers make better design decisions (video):

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

Games that hold scoring until the end can leave players unclear about what their goals are. Here are some fixes to give players earlier, clearer feedback (video):

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

Designing traditional and abstract board games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxZ4cL6UJM

Insights into the vetting process that publishers typically put new potential game designs through before seriously considering them as realistic options for future publication (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GFP2uyE0M

Common game design problems and suggestions for overcoming them: being stuck on a mechanic, downtime, overwhelmed players, lack of interaction, and when the game just isn't great (video):

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

Lessons learned from 10 years as a published board game designer (video):

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

This chat with a game designer and developer considers what makes a game “cozy” and what makes it a good product (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux_BOmq9WCY