The Board Game Design Lab

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Board Game Design Productivity Hacks with Gabe Barrett

Posted November 9, 202300:59:15

In this episode, I break down some game design productivity hacks that have been helping me lately, and I’m specifically talking about a concept called...

Do this BEFORE designing a game | Leo Taylor

Posted November 3, 202301:19:51

In this episode, Leo Taylor, designer of games in the Risk, Clue, and D&D universes, breaks down his “key pillars of game design” as we chat...

How to Make Money from Your Game Design Hobby with Joe Slack

Posted October 25, 202301:01:22

In this episode, Joe Slack and I talk about how we’ve both been able to piece together lots of different revenue streams in the gaming industry to...

Designing Games FOR and WITH Young Kids with Elan Lee

Posted October 21, 202301:08:43

In this episode, Elan Lee, the creator of Exploding Kittens, talks about his venture into creating games for small children. Elan has been designing...

4 Amazing (and Useful) Examples of Board Game Design Theory with Geoff Engelstein

Posted October 13, 202301:27:09

In this episode, Geoff Engelstein and I chat about design theory and break down Geoff’s favorite examples and how they relate to designing games....