Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - January 2013

Once a month, we gather the tips and resources for board game designers that we found the most useful and share them again.

The new year is off to a strong start, with meaty posts about playtesting, the game design process and more, plus great material from a recent unpublished-games festival.

Cartrunk Entertainment’s recent Unpub 3 event yielded a wealth of great advice for designers:

• Choice quotes from designers and publishers at Unpub 3, collected by Daniel Solis
• Video of the designers panel
• Video of the publishers panel

#industry:

• Answers to many of the most common questions that new designers have
• Jason Tagmire discusses why designers need to be jacks of all trades, navigating the publication process and more

#theory:

• An extensive glossary of terms used in board gaming and game design

#process:

• What you can control–and what you can’t–about your games

#playtesting:

• How to solicit better feedback from playtesters–and what to do with it

#licensing:

• “Do every thing you can to have a face-to-face demo. If you believe in your game, this is your best shot and it’s totally worth your time even if rejection comes.” - T.C. Petty III (@puppyshogun)