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...
Tabletop Simulator 101: the Ultimate Guide for Absolute Beginners
Tabletop Simulator is a powerful ‘sandbox’ program that makes it surprisingly easy to show off your game in a virtual space. It came out in 2015 following a successful Kickstarter, and has become the most popular way to play games virtually. There is a...
Game design: an introduction to spreadsheets for game designers — with real-world examples
Wait, I thought you were a game designer, not an accountant! LOL. I’m not an accountant… but I was a Business major. Getting good at spreadsheets means being able to wrangle the data in your game into a thing you can show someone else, do math to predict...Fast. Fun. Easy to play.
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