Eduardo Baraf- ART
- DESIGN
- November 3, 2017
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Eduardo BarafGAME ARTISANS OF CANADA
The Game Artisans of Canada is an incredible art and design organization based out of Canada. In this video I talk about the group, its structure, and many of the…
- Christian Strain
- BALANCE
- BOARDGAME
- October 26, 2017
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Christian StrainFINDING BALANCE BEFORE PLAYTESTING
How do you know the value of a card, or resource in a game you’re designing? I see this question pop up from time to time, and it’s a good…
- Eduardo Baraf
- DESIGN
- EDO
- October 16, 2017
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Q&A: GAVAN BROWN – PASSION, CREATIVITY, & PATIENCE
Gavan Brown is Director at Roxley Games, known for Santorini, Steampunk Rally, Super Motherload, and more. We talk about getting into gaming, making fantastic games, and Kickstarter. Q&A: GAVAN BROWN
- Eduardo Baraf
- DESIGN
- EDO
- October 2, 2017
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Q&A: ALEXANDRE EMERIT – KEYHOLE INTO THE FRENCH DESIGN SCENE
Alexandre Emerit is a relatively new French game designer we a couple big projects on the way. One with HABA and the other with IELLO. In this interview we talk…
- Eduardo Baraf
- COMPONENTS
- DESIGN
- September 8, 2017
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PANDA DESIGN GUIDEBOOK: A STEP-BY-STEP WALKTHROUGH
Panda Game Manufacturing has provided the board game industry with an incredible Design Guidebook for the proper preparation of game files for print. Whether or not you are using Panda,…
- Eduardo Baraf
- DESIGN
- EDO
- July 31, 2017
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Q&A: JAMEY STEGMAIER – THE TALE OF GENJI & OTHER GAMES
Jamey Stegmaier has been the gentle giant of Kickstarter gaming for the last 5 years. He may have moved off the platform for games from his company Stonemaier Games, but…
- Scott Caputo
- BEZIER GAMES
- BLOG POSTS
- March 22, 2017
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Scott CaputoTHE LONG WINDING JOURNEY OF WHISTLE STOP
A couple weeks ago, Bezier Games, finally announced the publication of my game, Whistle Stop, a tile-laying, pick-up-and-deliver train game, which will be released at GenCon this year. For those…
- Seth Jaffee
- BOARD GAMES
- DESIGN
- January 11, 2017
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Seth JaffeeDO DILIGENCE!
When we playtest games, we tend to get a lot of suggestions from players. As designers, it’s our job to parse those comments and decide which suggestions would lead to…
- Eduardo Baraf
- DESIGN
- EDO
- November 18, 2016
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INSTRUCTIONS: A GAME’S GATEWAY
Are you a new designer struggling with putting together instructions? Do you routinely have players looking confused and frustrated getting to know your game? This video gives some basics steps…
- Luke Laurie
- ADVICE
- DESIGN
- November 10, 2016
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Luke LaurieTEN THINGS I LEARNED IN MY FIRST FIVE YEARS AS A GAME DESIGNER
1)KNOW YOUR STYLE I like to play all kinds of games: party games, strategy games, family games, card games, etc. But that doesn’t make me good at designing all different…
