Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - August 2018

In this month's roundup of great board game design links, we have our own interview with a giant in the industry, tips for entering--and winning--design contests, advice from a newcomer who's been having a lot of success, and more.

featured:

• Meaningful Decisions: Bruno Cathala on Design Choices in Kingdomino

contests:

• How to win a game design competition (audio)

rules:

• Tips for making your game's rules publisher-ready

licensing:

• The essential elements of pitching your design to a publisher (audio)
• Different ways the development process between designers and publishers can work (audio)

industry:

• Tips for breaking into board game design from an up-and-coming designer (audio)
• Lots of pointers for making a pitch video

process:

• “Every game you design will be better than the last. You will be smarter. You will be better. Don’t be afraid to put a game on a shelf for a year and work on something else. You’ll figure it out when you come back!” - Jonathan Gilmour
• “Goals can be useful in starting designing, but don’t get hung up on them. Follow your game wherever it leads you, even to places you didn’t expect to go.” - Matthew Dunstan

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ASSOCIATES: Stephen B Davies, Adrienne Ezell, Marcus Howell, Thiago Jabuonski, Samuel Lees, Doug Levandowski, Nathan Miller, Mike Sette, Matt Wolfe

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