Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - September 2017

This month our roundup of favorite board game design links includes important reminders about playtesting, advice for finding the right publisher, rules-writing tips and more.

theory:

• Different ways of controlling turn order (audio)

playtesting:

• The different types of playtesting: how to prepare for each (audio)

• “Your playtesters’ minor irritants of today are your reviewers’ slams of tomorrow.” - John Brieger

licensing:

• How new designers can best spend their time to get their games signed

• How to find and approach a publisher that is appropriate for your game

 rules:

• How to write the "setup" section of a rulebook

 publishing:

• A crash course on Kickstarter for board games

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SENIOR INVENTORS: Steven Cole, John du Bois, Chris and Kathy Keane (The Drs. Keane), Joshua J. Mills, Marcel Perro, Behrooz Shahriari, Shoot Again Games

JUNIOR INVENTORS: Ryan Abrams, Joshua Buergel, Luis Lara, Aidan Short, Jay Treat

ASSOCIATES: Robert Booth, Stephen B Davies, Scot Duvall, Doug Levandowski, Aaron Lim, Nathan Miller, Mike Sette, Kasper Esven Skovgaard, Isaias Vallejo, Ryan Wilson, Matt Wolfe

APPRENTICES: Darren Broad, Kiva Fecteau, Scott Gottreu, Scott Martel Jr., The Nerd Nighters, Neil Roberts, Marcus Ross, Sean Rumble, VickieGames