Soft skills that board game designers need: giving and receiving feedback, correcting a playtest experience that has gone off the rails, dealing with publishers, and more, via @connieschultz.bsky.social @unpub.org
What’s your strangest idea for a board game? Board game designers share their most unusual game ideas
How can you reliably come up with good game ideas? Here are 5 different techniques to come up with new ideas that can grow into great games
Multicolored flier featuring Dice, Cards, and Board Game plus library logo and QR Code. Text says: Crash Course in Game Design Taught by John Mulligan skeletoncodemachine.com Saturday May 2 2pm Severna Park Library 45 W McKinsey Road, Severna Park MD 21146 410-222-6290 www.aacpl.net For More Information Visit www.aacpl.net/events
Happening at my library in just a couple weeks! FREE! And lots of great places to eat right nearby so treat yourself to lunch and then come learn about game design! Please spread the word. #boardgames #gamedesign #Maryland
Today's 15s Board Game Design 🎲 Tip for the Day continues our classic game mechanisms discussion with "why Roll & Move matters": youtube.com/shorts/65cNv... #boardgame #boardgamedesign #tabletopgames #gamedesign #lgbtq #gamepublisher
Fur, Feathers & Fun Game Design Contest closes April 18! Submit your game now before the deadline! www.thegamecrafter.com/contests/fur-feathers-fu... Need help? Check help.thegamecrafter.com/article/503-how-to-enter...
I went on a real deep dive this week with Don't Eat the Meeples as I tried to understand the realities of the "trick-taking renaissance," what might be a temporary boost in interest, and what might be a return to something that went away in the 2000s.
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Some great designs in this year’s finals! Check out the pictures in the thread.
The first weekend of finalist judging for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award is a wrap! Here are some pics from the weekend! 🧵
Two judges playing PiramiDuel: D4s and scoring tiles.
Goa Kranti prototype on the table: cards, pawns, tokens, and more.
Judges playing Deductive Seasoning: player screens hiding dry-erase periodic tables of flavor.
Catacombes de Paris prototype on the table during judging: carts, maps, tiles, and more.
PiramiDuel, Goa Kranti, Deductive Seasoning, Catacombes de Paris. Details at cardboardedison.com/award
Three judges playing The Wedding Planner: vendor cards, present tokens, players mats, and more.
Judges playing Wunderkammer: bidding tokens on a grid with curiosity tokens on it.
Three judges standing at a table with the Possessions prototype on it.
Three judges playing Moonforge at the table.
The Wedding Planner, Wunderkammer, Possessions, Moonforge. Details at cardboardedison.com/award
StrongHolds being played: a player throwing a magnetic tile at a tower of magnetic tiles.
The Leftovers playthrough: four judges playing the game, cards on the table, one reading the rulebook.
Two-player game of Braggin' Wranglers: one has thrown a lasso onto a playmat sprinkled with animal meeples.
Black Ruth of Dogtown on the table during testing: cards with shapes, patterns, and colors, with divination results on the backs.
StrongHolds, The Leftovers, Braggin' Wranglers, Black Ruth of Dogtown. Details at cardboardedison.com/award
Four-player playthrough of Ladybugs: a grid of cards and red dice.
Four-player game of Midnight Spawn: a board with spaces for cards showing sea creatures, plus DSV and ship tokens.
Astrolabe on the table: rotating astrolabe components, plus cards and other bits.
Hybrid Hijinks on the the table: a map of habitat spaces with paths connecting them, plus characteristic cards.
Ladybugs, Midnight Spawn, Astrolabe, Hybrid Hijinks. Details at cardboardedison.com/award
The Roots of All Evil being played: rings of cards with numbers, with tokens in the gaps, and Blackthorn the tree demon.
Match Patch being played: three players adjusting tracks and gathering fertilizer tokens.
Limelight being played: cast and crew cards, acclaim tokens, critics with endgames goals, and more.
Hatchlings midgame: yellow, green, and blue sea turtles racing along the beach, one protected by a shell.
The Roots of All Evil, Match Patch, Limelight, Hatchlings. Details at cardboardedison.com/award
The first weekend of finalist judging for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award is a wrap! Here are some pics from the weekend! 🧵
The Wednesday Board Game LIVE on tiktok continues with our discussion on the history & evolution of Game Mechanisms 4.15.25 3pm CST #gamedesign #tabletopgames #boardgamedesign
What are some of the most unusual components you have used in a prototype? A Reddit board game designers forum discussion
Exciting news from @breakmygame.com! They're offering regular playtesting 🎲✂️ events at these locations:
🏠 House Rules - Grand Rapids, MI
🔭 Modern Explorers Guild - Midland MI
🦉 Owl Central Games - Lancaster, PA
🏯 Game Kastle - Austin, TX
🏰 Game Kastle - Greenville, SC
! 🤩 Wow 🤩 !
A gull foraging in the surf by our vacation rental.
Alright! In all the excitement of last weekend I neglected to do an AMA. I'm in a car for the next 4 hours. Hit me with your questions about publishing/production/marketing/development/design. AMA time.
We have a special episode lined up with guests from @vancouverplaytest.bsky.social. Have any questions regarding the process of playtesting or topics you'd like us to explore?
If your game can surprise players, it will stick with them more. Here are some ways of surprising your players
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Shelves holding all 20 Cardboard Edison Award finalists.
Judging has begun! Here are the prototypes for all 20 finalists in the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award! Details about all of them are available at cardboardedison.com/award
Reminder that applications for the indie tabletop market at PaxWest close on the 19th!
Free Range Arcade is coming up on Saturday, May 2nd! Showcase your digital or tabletop game or come play some of the best Midwestern games around! bloomington.in.gov/parks/events...
Limelight prototype: trays of cards, tokens, cash bits, playbills, and more.
And the last finalist prototype to arrive for this year’s Cardboard Edison Award is Limelight by Cameron Fleming. Appropriate since today is “opening night” for the first Award judging event!
The Leftovers prototype: player mats, guidebooks, cards, chits, and more.
Here’s 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist The Leftovers by Larry Ted McBride, where magical foodfolk cooperate to build decks and take tricks! cardboardedison.com/award
Prototype for Hybrid Hijinks: map, cards, and a bag filled with bits.
The next arrival in the finalists for this year’s Cardboard Edison Award is Hybrid Hijinks by Jena Kreese, where we’ll be creating crazy animal hybrids that double as configurable player powers! cardboardedison.com/award
Playtest games by Pittsburgh-area game makers! Next Pittsburgh Playtest is April 19th! RSVP at pittsburghplaytest.com
Prototype of The Wedding Planner: player aids, power cards, various bits, rulebook, “thank you” and “you’re invited” cards, markers, a ring box, and more.
The next finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award to arrive is the first in the contest’s 11 years to come with a ring box: The Wedding Planner by José Lema! cardboardedison.com/award
