Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - July 2017

This month our roundup of favorite board game design links includes advice from a master, tips for con season, thoughts on a much maligned mechanism, and more.

featured:

• Meaningful Decisions: Matt Grosso on Design Choices in Dead Last

industry:

• Bruno Faidutti's advice for new designers about game design, playtesting, pitching, the industry and more

• Advice for designers attending cons: networking, pitching, playtesting and more (audio)

theory:

• The right and wrong ways to use roll-and-move (audio)

• How some games let players' actions help their opponents too

• “You cannot design games in a vacuum. They’re played by game-players, and if some method of play will ruin the game, design the game so that it cannot happen successfully.” - Lewis Pulsipher

process:

• A thread with lots of advice for board game designers on various topics

playtesting:

• Advice for running high-level playtests (audio)

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