If you have thought of designing your own board game, you should consider the different tricks and strategies that will help you understand the game’s intricate details. Use your ideas to create a rough draft of the game Research and learn about the different kinds of attractive fonts If the idea, design, or solution is not great, get rid of it Consider colorblind options and versions of the game Develop a cheap prototype of the game to get feedback Be aware of all the diversities and how you implement in the game Make maximum use of free resources The post Tips For Starting Board Game Desig ..read more

Playing board games is one of the oldest human hobbies, which is welcomed and enjoyed by almost all nationalities. Since the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons or Magic; The Gathering, the genre for board games has increased. People are tapping into newer, more sophisticated ways of making board games to attract customers from different sections. If you aren’t already aware, different board games aim at entertaining everyone equally. Abstract These are the types of games that follow no specific theme. So many players have stated that they follow no specific storyline and are completely disconn ..read more

The golden idea for board games began in 2008 when Adam Poots was awaiting his jury duty and invented a manual role-playing game to kill time. When he was reading through the game’s mechanics, he was struck with different ways to improve the game’s mechanics. In 2012, he started a Kickstarter for his RPG project, asking investors to invest $35,000 in his board-game idea. It was a surprise when it became one of the most funded-board games in the history of Kickstarter, which led to KingdomDeath, one of the most popular role-playing board games of those times.   If Adam could do it, you can ..read more

Board games have been around since many civilizations and have been an essential part of many generations’ entertainment. While creating board games, it is essential to pay heed to the different kinds of designs present on the web: Abstract strategy board games Educational board games Cooperative board games Euro game, or Germany-style board games Hidden traitor board games Role Playing Board Games If you wish to come up with the best board game idea, it should be well-planned out, from all points and perspectives of the user, both in the winning and losing streak. The post Learning Board Ga ..read more

Cooperative games require two or more players to work together. This means the players must co-operate with their choices to take the game to its maximum ability. It can help people practice skills like communication, using opportunities, negotiation, decision-making, spatiotemporal awareness, and many others. It is best suited for places where people work in a team, for instance, in an office or on group projects. Although they do not replace professional training, they can be an excellent way for people to work on their skills and have fun simultaneously. The post Co-operative Games – Using ..read more

Board games are the more accessible and the most fun games to play, which will also effectively help you kill time. Player interaction is considered one of the critical factors in creating distinctive board games, which helps determine the game’s success. There are different types of player interactions with board games. They are: • Zero-sum games where no action, interaction, or resource of the game is wasted, • Attacking the leader is the most popular, where one team or player attacks the other • Attacking the loser is also a feasible strategy • Helping vs. hindering is determined by the pla ..read more

Cooperation for victory! After a long hiatus of game design (and writing blog posts) I’m finding myself thinking about possibilities again. One thing that is stuck in my mind is a game where any number of players can win: Each has their own goal and whomever makes that goal is a winner, regardless of how the other players perform. I imagine that this would have quite some things in common with cooperative games: If the challenge is not to “beat” the other players, the game will need to provide challenges. So I’m going to give some thought on what elements make for a good cooperative game. For ..read more

Any game designer probably knows: Having ideas is easy, it’s turning them into something that actually works that is the crux. Still, dreaming up ideas is a lot of fun, so in this post I want to share some (crazy) ideas for games or mechanics. If there is something that strikes your fancy, feel free to use it (just send me a percentage of the royalties ). A non-oppositional game So not like this… A game where any number of players can win and / or lose. Each player gets their own objective and whomever makes it before the game ends wins. For best effect this would require quite some player in ..read more

So I’m thinking worker placement, but your workers are actually decks that you build… I’d heard good things about “The crew”. And so I bought, played and loved it! The crew is a cooperative trick-taking game. Generally I’m not a fan of trick taking games, but combined with the cooperative element it really worked! This led me to realize that I tend towards certain types of games, “because I like them”. That of course makes sense, but it can also be limiting. Maybe I’m missing out on great games just because they’re not in my “standard categories”? When it comes to playing games this is not muc ..read more

Maybe a bit -too- concrete? In my last post I mentioned that I am abandoning the design I’ve been working on. Unfortunate, but these things happen. The good thing is, this means that I get to come up with a new design project! I already have a number of ideas in the back of my head for theme-mechanic combinations and it wouldn’t be too hard to pick one of them. But what I really would like to go for is a certain kind of “feel” or “experience”, which doesn’t need to depend on any one kind of theme or mechanic. What I’ve learned is that the best way for me to think about things is to write them ..read more