Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - February 2016

This month, our roundup of favorite board game design links includes some important advice about making it in the industry as a designer or publisher, a tool for tracking your progress on designs, a look at the future of board games, and more.

featured:

• Meaningful Decisions: Anthony Amato & Nicole Kline on Design Choices in RESISTOR_

industry:

• Making a living as a board game designer--a BoardGameGeek designers forum discussion

theory:

• Ways of implementing variable turn order in a worker placement game

• Ways of analyzing a game design according to various measures, including player choice, ease of learning, gameplay variety, originality, interaction and more

• The obstacles and opportunities in designing board games with a digital component

• Game balance: why it's unachievable, and some tools to approximate it

process:

• Keeping track of your game designs (copyable spreadsheet)

publishing:

• How setting the right MSRP affects your cash flow

• Cash flow for a Kickstarter board game publisher

licensing:

• 7 tips to get your game picked up by a publisher

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