Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - March 2017

This month our list of favorite board game design links includes answers to a fundamental question about good games, a collection of useful videos about game design, advice for talking to publishers from preparation to pitch to follow-up, and lots more.

theory:

• What makes a game good--or bad?

• Analyzing the many variables that go into tile-based city-building games

• Videos from the 2017 Game Developers Conference's Board Game Design Day (video)

• Common mechanisms in two-player games (video)

publishing:

• Tax deductions for board game publishers

licensing:

• How to make a great video pitch of your game

• How to approach publishers with game ideas (audio)

• Why a publisher might reject your game and how to handle it (audio)

process:

• “If you want to be a creative, cast as wide a net in your life as you can. Read things, try things, do things. That’s where ideas come from.” - Kevin Wilson

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