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The White Box Essays: A Recommended Buy
Jeremy Holcomb is a professor of game design any the DigiPen Institute of Technology. He has a wealth of experience with the full spectrum of idea-to-publish tabletop design. His insight is as paramount to the industry as the likes of the founders of “indie-giants” like Stonemaier and Leder Games. Enter The White Box Essays: a…
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Plan it! Keep Your Game Development on Track
A short one today, sorry! Don’t apologize, this is the best day of my life Now that I finally have a build of my tabletop game that can be played from start to finish, I’ve decided to double-down on an Agile-based development cycle. Here’s my development project plan, in a nutshell: Two weeks of play…
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Nurture Your Playtest Feedback, Ask Questions
During my latest playtest session, asking clarifying questions about how to potentially solve pain points in my game was just as valuable (if not more) than airing the issues.
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Don’t Beat Me up for Saying That We Can Learn From Digital Board Games
I’ve recently got back into Hearthstone—Blizzard’s lovable digital deck-building game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. I played it a lot when it first came out and then lost interest after a year or so of play. But as I work on improving the PE (Player Experience [I refuse to use the letter X to…
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up for Taking a Break
Two weeks ago, I just had my first round of playtests with other people. I got a lot of good feedback that I want to incorporate into the game before I pick up the pace on playtests. But I’ve barely touched my game in a week. Why? I’ve got a lot going on in my…
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