The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Designing Your First Board Game
You’ve got a board game idea rattling around in your head, and now you’re ready to take it further. That’s where we come in. Whether this is your first attempt … Read More
10 Famous Quotes That Will Instantly Improve Your Game Design
Great tabletop game design is part creativity, part persistence—and part learning from other smart brains. Sometimes, the best design advice doesn’t come from game designers at all. It comes from … Read More
I Spent $550 on Board Game Artwork and This is What I Got
When I spent five hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents on icons for me to use in prototyping my own board games. I was worried. Why? That’s $550.40 more … Read More
3 Questions from a Young Aspiring Game Designer
I had someone reach out to me on Twitter who had some questions for their son who was making his own game. This reminded me of all the games I … Read More
Fireside Chat 03 – The Origins of Memaw’s Monsters and a History of My Love for Game Design Featuring Memaw Herself
I have made a lot of prototypes for various board and card games over the years. Lately I have gone back to the world I made based on the stories … Read More
MMTD Ch. 02: Creating the Very First Prototype of this Version of Memaw’s Monsters
I have been really into my newest game design over the last few weeks called Memaw’s Monsters. I’m excited to document my process of creating my game from start to … Read More
How to Make a Board Game Prototype
When I first started learning how to make a board game I was confused. My brain understood that I needed to make a prototype of my game but I wasn’t … Read More
12 Useful Board Game Pieces for Making Your Own Tabletop Game
I enjoy keeping up with what everyone else finds useful in making their own board games. So I made a list of the most popular board game pieces I have seen … Read More
How to use NanDeck – 3 More Videos Showing You How to Make Your Own Cards
Thank you for all of the positive feedback I received from the first video I made on how to use NanDeck. If you haven’t seen the 1st video tutorial yet then check … Read More
How Mike Prepared His Board Game Prototype and Playtested it at PAX South
I recently got to help my friend Mike Abrahamson get his board game prototype ready for playtesting at PAX South. PAX South is a large gaming convention held in San Antonio … Read More