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Board Game Design Lab: “How to Design a Solo Game with Hermann Luttmann”
Hermann Luttmann, designer of Dawn of the Zeds, talks about how to design a solo game.Hermann has created numerous games meant for only one player and offers a ton of interesting insight on how to craft the solitaire
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Polygon: The art and craft of making board games for the CIA
By Charlie Hall Acclaimed designer Volko Ruhnke gives a whole new meaning to the term “serious games” “The United States has exactly 16 agencies devoted to intelligence gathering and analysis, but only one which reports
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The Dice Tower: Top 10 Things Designers Need to STOP Doing
Published on May 25, 2017 Tom, Sam, and Zee discuss a few designer blunders that they find particularly problematic. Come join in the conversation!
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League of Gamemakers: Patients, Protections, and Boardgames – Part I
By Tom Jolly IN THE GAME INDUSTRY, COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARKS, AND PATENTS DON’T WORK. WE NEED SOMETHING ELSE. “Recently, a federal court in Texas handed down a judgment that game mechanics aren’t covered by copyright
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PJ Media: What’s the Single Most Disruptive Technology in Role-Playing Games?
BY MOE LANE FEBRUARY 27, 2016 “What’s the single most disruptive in-game technology in either computer or pen-and-paper roleplaying games (RPGs)? ….” Read More Here:
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PJ Media: Why Are There New Editions of Tabletop Roleplaying Games?
BY MOE LANE “When you first get into the exciting and dynamic hobby of tabletop, pencil-and-paper roleplaying games (RPGs), you are likely to notice two things, at some point. First, the game that you
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Houston Chronicle: International Copyright Laws for Board Games
by Hall Harris , Demand Media “No single method can protect a board game in its entirety from copyright infringement. Instead, a board game inventor can create a patchwork of protection from various intellectual
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PM: Stop Reading This and Go Build Your Own Board Game
By William Herkewitz Jordan Goddard is a first-time board game designer from Carmel, Ind. Together with his partner, Mandy Moulin, he recently created and received Kickstarter backing for Collapse, a post-apocalyptic card game. Goddard
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New York Times: High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again
By NICK WINGFIELD MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Dan Shapiro sold a company to Google and worked at Microsoft. His name is on nearly a dozen technology-related patents. But when it came time for his latest
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Forbes: Are Board Games Better Than Video Games?
By Erik Kain Quintin Smith has an interesting post over at Kotaku in which he argues that board games and pen-and-paper RPGs are superior to video games, for a number of reasons. For one, he argues, technology
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