Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - August 2017

This month our roundup of favorite board game design links includes new ways of thinking about board games, data on what players are looking for, pitching advice and more.

featured:

• The Gen Con Experience: The gaming convention through the eyes of board game designers

• The Process: The Expanse by Geoff Engelstein

process:

• The right ways to steal ideas

• Managing your time making a game: years, months, weeks, days, hours and minutes

• Game design axioms: starting points for creating good games (audio)

theory:

• 12 skills you can build a board game around

industry:

• Results from a survey about what people like and dislike in games

licensing:

• How to pitch your tabletop game to a publisher (video)

publishing:

• Tips for using BoardGameGeek during a crowdfunding campaign

playtesting:

• “Know what words you want to hear players using. Those words are a great way to tell if your design is immersive.” - JR Honeycutt

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ADVISERS: 421 Creations, Peter C. Hayward, Aaron Vanderbeek

SENIOR INVENTORS: Steven Cole, John du Bois, Chris and Kathy Keane (The Drs. Keane), Joshua J. Mills, Marcel Perro, Behrooz Shahriari, Shoot Again Games

JUNIOR INVENTORS: Ryan Abrams, Joshua Buergel, Luis Lara, Aidan Short, Jay Treat

ASSOCIATES: Robert Booth, Stephen B Davies, Scot Duvall, Doug Levandowski, Aaron Lim, Nathan Miller, Mike Sette, Kasper Esven Skovgaard, Isaias Vallejo, Ryan Wilson, Matt Wolfe

APPRENTICES: Darren Broad, Kiva Fecteau, Scott Gottreu, Knight Works, Scott Martel Jr., The Nerd Nighters, Marcus Ross, Sean Rumble