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Ted Alspach, designer Suburbia of and founder of Bezier Games, discusses city building games.

Suburbia is ranked 94th on Board Game Geek and is easily on the Mount Rushmore of city building games, so Ted really knows what he’s talking about when it comes to designing one of these types of games.

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Nolan Nasser, illustrator and founder of Deep Water Games, discusses art direction in board games.

Nolan has a ton of experience in directing art for well known games and shares a great deal of what he’s learned over the years.

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Cody Stevens, the designer of Dino Dunk, discusses dexterity games.

We talk about lots of different dexterity style games, how they work, and what makes them good.

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Joseph Z Chen discusses catch-up mechanisms.

Joseph is a designer and indie publisher who did a fairly in-depth analysis on ways different games keep players involved until the end. We talk about several popular games and their catch-up mechanisms as well as Joseph’s personal experiences.

And don’t forget to check out Joseph’s game, Fantastic Factories, on Kickstarter HERE.

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Erin Dean, author of For the Love of Board Games, discusses her book and what she learned from the designers she interviewed.

You can check out Erin’s documentary, The Board Game Boom, here.

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Here’s Daniel’s article about receiving feedback from a design contest.

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