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  • Board Game Design Advice: From the Best in the World

  • By: Gabe Barrett
  • Narrated by: Adam Naranjo
  • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary

Take your games to the next level with advice from more than 60 of the best board game designers in the world.

Game design is hard. We all need sound advice to guide our work and help us become better at the craft. In this book you'll find incredible wisdom and insight from the top designers in the industry today. You will learn:

  • The advice Rob Daviau would give his younger self.
  • How Matt Leacock gets into the zone and flow of design.
  • Lessons Jamey Stegmaier learned from his biggest failure.
  • Donald X. Vaccarino's advice on pitching a game to a publisher.
  • The behavior that has helped Ryan Laukat's designs dramatically improve.
  • What Bruno Cathala would tell you after a discouraging playtest.
  • And much more!
©2018 Gabe Barrett (P)2018 Gabe Barrett
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Great advice!!

However it was a real slog to listen to. The same questions repeated time and time again. Probably needs a reformat to really clinch my attention.

I would recommend this book to fledgling board game designers.

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