23 Things I Wish I Knew About Game Design When I Started
Has it really been over 4 years? I showed my first design in late 2016 to some gamers in Florida… and man that feels like forever ago… A big shoutout to the Board Game Design Lab community on Facebook for starting this conversation. Some of these items...
Game design 101: Where to find free icons, pictures, and graphics for prototypes
Because prototypes — especially those you’re showing publicly — should not exist on text alone. [First published on 28 Sept 2018 – Last updated 11 Jan 2021] You’re probably aware that you can’t just take an image you find on Google and use it...
Review: 51 Clubhouse Games – classic tabletop games on the Nintendo Switch
This one came out of nowhere, but has quickly become my game of the year. Officially ‘Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics’, one Switch game purchase gets you, well, 51 classic games that are familiar, yet potentially new. This isn’t a port, though...
Review: Meeple Marketing’s Game Designer Marketing Toolkit by Nalin Chuapetcharasopon
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...
What To Do After The Playtest: 20 Playtesting Questions That Set Players Up To Give Great Answers
So you’ve just finished playtesting a game. Whoever has won gets to play it up a bit, players begin to look at the rest of the cards, and then… …crickets… Experienced designers know this is the perfect time to begin asking questions, giving...Fast. Fun. Easy to play.
Hey there, I’m Chris. These are my games, and this is my story of making them.