Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - July 2015

This month, our roundup of great board game design links features a new Meaningful Decisions interview and an insightful post by our interviewee, tips for negotiating a publishing contract, advice on playtesting and more…

featured:

• Meaningful Decisions: Gil Hova on Design Choices in Battle Merchants
  

licensing:

• 10 tips for negotiating a publishing contract
  

theory:

• Score tracks: good and bad examples, and what else they can do
  
• “I think world-building is very important for some games, but I think it’s very easy for creators to lose track of the fact that nobody will care as much about their world as they do. The mechanics and decisions players make have to reinforce your fictional construct, or it’ll all get ignored.” - Joshua Buergel
  

playtesting:

• How individual “red threads” of playtest feedback can form a “red flag”
  
• Three ways of answering the question: “How many times do I need to playtest my game?”
  

industry:

• What makes a game “unpublishable”
  

process:

• Countering common fears about game design
  

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