Playtesting Board Games: 12 Lessons I’ve Learned
March 22, 2025
Lessons I’ve learned from over three years designing and playtesting board games. Takeaways for playtesting your games.
game design
Tag: game design
Fuzzy Logic: Why Genre Classifications Are Impossible
March 11, 2025
An analysis of genre classifications in tabletop board and roleplaying games, and how we can think about hybrid designs in useful ways.
Experience vs. Memory: How We Remember Games
March 6, 2025
An analysis of how and why we remember certain experiences more vividly than others, and how this applies to games.
Endowment Theory, Consumerism and Engagement in Games
March 1, 2025
Endowment effect and divestiture aversion as it relates to playing and designing tabletop games.
How to Teach a Board Game Well
February 12, 2025
Teaching a board game well can be difficult. Here are some tips and strategies to become a better teacher of games.
Writing a Great Board Game Rulebook
February 8, 2025
Writing a great game rulebook can be hard. Here are some considerations as you create your own.
Clarity, Brevity and Respect: On Rulebook Creation for Games
February 1, 2025
Rulebook design in games can be difficult. Here are three principles to help guide your rulebook creation.
Games: Agency as Art, Book Review
January 22, 2025
Games: Agency as Art is a book by author C. Thi Nguyen. It analyzes gaming as a mode of art and posits a theory of what games deliver to players that is unique and distinct from other media.
Games as Learning in Raph Koster’s Theory of Fun for Game Design
January 15, 2025
Theory of Fun for Game Design is a book by longtime game designer Raph Koster, who analyzes learning and design systems in gaming.
Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design Book Review
January 8, 2025
The Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design is a book written by Isaac Shalev and Geoffrey Engelstein, aimed at game designers looking to expand their knowledge of gaming mechanisms.
Gametek Book Review
January 1, 2025
Gametek is a book on tabletop gaming by author Georffrey Engelstein. It covers a wide variety of topics including the math and history underscoring games and game design.