Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - March 2016

This month, our roundup of favorite board game design links includes goals to strive for and mistakes to avoid, real-world playtesting advice, a new interview about a classic game, and more.

featured:

• The Process: Biblios by Steve Finn

• Guest Post: The Basic Elements of Solo Variant Design

theory:

• Unsatisfying victories your design should avoid

• 10 mistakes new designers make

process:

• Designers share their design tenets

• How to handle criticism

• Michael Eskue on games designers should play, getting started, focusing, questions for playtesters, fixing flaws, pitching to publishers and dealing with rejection, writing rulebooks and more

• How to approach reviewers about a Kickstarter board game

• Advantages of co-designing

playtesting:

• How to work within the less-than-ideal, imperfect realities of playtesting

publishing:

• 5 mistakes to avoid when manufacturing in China

licensing:

• Lessons from attending GAMA as a designer: preparation, pitching and more

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