Tips for giving feedback as a game designer that respects your fellow designers:

https://bsky.app/profile/drawnonward.bsky.social/post/3lkw4jnnvac2z

This super-brief video is chock full of tips for good playtesting etiquette (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3qnmkCkCDI

Tips for starting up a playtest group that will help you and other designers support each other and keep making progress on your games:

https://youtu.be/OX_AX_q_6IE

Six good habits for board game designers, to help you through the process of broadening your horizons, putting your game through its paces, participating in the industry, and contributing to the community:

https://www.meeplemountain.com/top-six/top-six-awesome-habits-for-board-game-designers/

What are game designers for?

https://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/2025-02-28

You can use this form to keep track of essential information about each of your playtests:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZkbHELWHbFiQKBDVKxkWz7IiAb4zKx80ImBrIY8h_c8/edit?gid=0#gid=0

An in-depth conversation with lots of tips for running better playtests (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB8qM6T-0sM

5 mistakes that new board game designers make (video):

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

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

https://www.playtestfeedback.com/

A short thread on the fine line board game designers need to walk when considering playtesters’ experiences:

https://bsky.app/profile/nickbentley.bsky.social/post/3leox3netlk2r

Our annual Cardboard Edison Best Practices booklet, filled with board game design tips and resources for every step of the process, is back!

• evaluating playtesters’ feedback

• improving your rulebook

• making your prototype more usable with graphic design

• setting design goals for yourself

• and lots more!

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPqJLYnwt0LXDEmZaZ8ebbA6M2MS_quN/view

Circles of playtesting: how a game evolves through various stages of testing in terms of the idea, the prototype, and how the designer feels about it

Lots of bite-size advice for making a board game, especially playtesting, pitching to publishers, and what to expect if it’s released:

https://bsky.app/profile/connievdc.bsky.social/post/3lbycjga5522q

How to move from the idea phase to playtesting—a Reddit board game forum discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoardgameDesign/comments/1ewam6p/how_do_you_move_from_ideation_to_playtesting/

How a NASA workload assessment tool can be applied to the design and testing of tabletop games:

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/nasa-tlx

This tabletop game design guidebook helps designers understand the full journey of making a game:

https://breakmygame.com/guidebook

A six-month plan to getting a board game signed—or at least to giving yourself the best chance at doing so (video):

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

Board game designers share their top tips for kids who want to make games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_M96QGGyY

Designing narrative puzzle games: notes on immersion, tactile components, playtesting, and more (audio):

https://ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-321-once-upon-a-puzzletale

The 5 biggest lessons learned from 20 years of game design: playtesting, deciding what to keep, working within constraints, and more (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxfWp3iex2k