Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - June 2013

This month’s roundup of useful links for board game designers includes games you should play, free icons for prototyping, a surprising connection between drafting and worker placement, and more:

#theory:

• Games to play to become a better designer
• The Dice Tower has a new podcast for board game designers
• A guide to area-control games
• A look at drafting as a gaming mechanism
• How to avoid runaway leaders in engine-building games

#prototyping:

• 1,078 free icons for prototyping

#publishing:

• Lessons learned from the Euphoria Kickstarter
• Albino Dragon’s top 12 lessons about making a Kickstarter campaign successful
• What can we learn from the Kickstarter campaigns that fell furthest short of their goals?

#process:

• Grant Rodiek joins the Happy Mitten podcast to discuss making players feel clever, stewing on ideas, getting published and more