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Review: Meeple Marketing’s Game Designer Marketing Toolkit by Nalin Chuapetcharasopon

Review: Meeple Marketing’s Game Designer Marketing Toolkit by Nalin Chuapetcharasopon

by Chris Backe | Jul 3, 2020 | Book Reviews, Game Design

  Nalin Chuapetcharasopon has made a name for herself for some of her posts in Facebook groups related to board game design. Per her website, “Ever since stumbling into crowdfunding in 2015, I’ve helped entrepreneurs raise over $13 million on...
Book review: Characteristics of Games (George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera)

Book review: Characteristics of Games (George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera)

by Chris Backe | Dec 5, 2019 | Book Reviews

A “meticulous book about the design of games”, this MIT-published textbook based on a college-level course makes the case that “games are valuable because are a fundamental form of human expression”. The focus here is on “looking...
Book review: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms

Book review: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms

by Chris Backe | Oct 2, 2019 | Book Reviews

  I’ve been meaning to review more of the books I’ve been reading behind the scenes. Since Building Blocks first came out in June 2019, I was initially hesitant to buy this book, not because of the authors or the subject, but because of the price tag — about $50...
Kickstarter Preview: ‘Fail Faster’ playtesting journal

Kickstarter Preview: ‘Fail Faster’ playtesting journal

by Chris Backe | Mar 4, 2019 | Book Reviews

Part of good playtesting means taking notes, and for better or worse that means a paper notebook. (No way my laptop leaves my house unless it has to, and typing notes into a tablet or smartphone is too slow.) For most of the last two years, I’ve used small...
Game design 101: 11 great books about game design to read

Game design 101: 11 great books about game design to read

by Chris Backe | Aug 13, 2018 | Book Reviews, Game Design

There’s no shortage of books written about game design or how to make board games — in fact, every time I look for something new to read, there’s usually a new one I hadn’t heard of before. This isn’t not an exhaustive list, but aims to curate...

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Getting out of town and traveling a bit... but I’m getting some playtesting done while on the train!
Playtesting a new version of Private Eye while waiPlaytesting a new version of Private Eye while waiting for other people to show up :-) small box game all about manipulating Evidence and stealing/discarding/finagling Suspects from other players.... #playtesting
Minimal, yet awesome. #mafia #thegamenotthemobMinimal, yet awesome. #mafia #thegamenotthemob
A #shoutout to some awesome gamers and #play testeA #shoutout to some awesome gamers and #play testers that took some time to try The Next Great American Novel - and found an unexpected way to break the game!
#quidditch, 2 #tw#quidditch, 2 #tw
A little #smallworld action, anyone? Bit of a braiA little #smallworld action, anyone? Bit of a brain burner but easy to get into.
Playtesting a new game in #Kyiv... on shag carpet!Playtesting a new game in #Kyiv... on shag carpet! This one doesn’t have a name yet, but it’s very short and strategic about placing your worker...
It may not look like much in terms of the picture,It may not look like much in terms of the picture, but consider the story. This is the booth of Iranian game designers. Sure, there’s plenty of other countries represented at #essenspiel, but this one was a reminder that good games truly can come from anywhere.Thanks #Essen and #Germany for another spectacular convention!
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A Discord group for playtesting board games in a virtual space, usually on Tabletop Simulator, Tabletopia, etc. Meets every Thursday starting at 6pm UK time / 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific. Open to all designers and playtesters around the world.