The Board Game Design Lab

By Gabe Barrett

The Board Game Design Lab was created for one purpose: to help you design great games people love. To accomplish that goal, this podcast interviews designers, publishers, and board game insiders on sp... more

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The podcast currently has 823 episodes available.

The Board Game Design Lab episodes:

December 11, 2022 How to Work with a Co-Designer with Luke Laurie
Luke Laurie, designer of The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, and I discuss all the ins and outs of working with a co-designer. Luke has worked with a co-designer on multiple projects and provides great insight on what’s good and what’s challenging about the process. Check out more from Luke at The League of Gamemakers.
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49min
December 11, 2022 How to Create the Perfect 2 Player Experience with Rahdo
Rahdo and I discuss 2 player games and how to craft an awesome 2 player experience. We go into specific mechanics that work really well in 2 player games, and we talk through how a designer can make a game scale down to 2 players effectively. After playing nearly 1000 games with just 2 players,...
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1h 2min
December 11, 2022 [Bonus] Jamey Stegmaier on his favorite game mechanisms
The post [Bonus] Jamey Stegmaier on his favorite game mechanisms appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.
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13min
December 11, 2022 [BONUS] Luke Laurie on Things All New Designers Need to Know
The post [BONUS] Luke Laurie on Things All New Designers Need to Know appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.
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12min
December 11, 2022 [BONUS] Rahdo on Themes He’d Like to See More Of
The post [BONUS] Rahdo on Themes He’d Like to See More Of appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.
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10min
December 11, 2022 How to Turn Kickstarter Failure into $100K+ Success with Mike Strickland
Mike Strickland, designer of Tau Ceti, and I talk about his Kickstarter failure and what he did to relaunch the campaign to wild success. After an unsuccessful first attempt, Mike regrouped and brought in over $100k the second time around. We discuss what led to the dramatic difference. Please note that Mike was in a spaceship...
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31min
December 11, 2022 [BONUS] Mike Strickland on Coming up with Alien Races
The post [BONUS] Mike Strickland on Coming up with Alien Races appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.
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10min
December 11, 2022 Going Pro in the Gaming Industry with Colby Dauch
Colby Dauch, founder of Plaid Hat Games and designer of Summoner Wars, goes in depth on the challenges he faced when he started his own publishing company. We talk about business, life, and work/life balance, and we even get into not letting people discourage you from chasing your dreams. The article Colby talks about in...
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59min
December 11, 2022 [BONUS] Colby Dauch on Barriers to Entry in Gaming
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10min
December 11, 2022 Why Good Reviews Aren’t Always the Magic Bullet with Jay Vales
Jay Vales discusses how his game, Conquest at Kismet, came to be and how it got great reviews but underperformed when it came to sales. We go into the contributing factors and what other designers can learn from the experience. We also talk about some interesting design concepts, dealing with real-life death, and how even...
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45min

FAQs about The Board Game Design Lab:

How many episodes does The Board Game Design Lab have?

The podcast currently has 823 episodes available.

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