Board Game Design Lab
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 specific topics related to game design. I don't waste time talking about recently played games or pop culture. Instead, the show does a deep dive into subjects that I hope you’ll find extremely valuable as you progress through your game design journey.
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Episodes (491)
Designing Greeting Card Games with Jess Metheringham
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How to Design a Race Game with Kathleen Mercury
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How to Design Asymmetrical Games with Stephen Schwartz and Floyd Lu
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How to Design Route Building Games with Ted Alspach
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[BGDL Community Spotlight] Print-on-Demand Publishing with Arthur Franz
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[BGDL Community Spotlight] Designing an Abstract Dexterity Game with Frank Sarro
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The Design Process of Phil Walker-Harding
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How to Multiply Your Time with Carla Kopp
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How to Design 2 Player Games with Alf Seegert
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Community Building with Carol Mertz and Elan Lee
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Building a Million Dollar Board Game Company with Kevin Carroll and Steve Mark
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[BGDL Community Spotlight] Designing Monster Taming Games with Tyler Langtimm
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[BGDL Community Spotlight] How to Promote Your Game in Facebook Groups with Thom...
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Designing Set Collection Games with Steve Finn
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[BGDL Community Spotlight] Creating a Business Plan with Jasper Burch
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[BGDL Community Spotlight] Component First Game Design with Scott Smith
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Manufacturing Frequently Asked Questions with Hersh Glueck
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The Making of Imperium with David Turczi and Nigel Buckle
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Designing Storytelling Games with Jerry Hawthorne
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Entangled Decision Making in Games with Fabio Lopiano
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How to Design a Cooperative Game with Mike Kelley
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Designing a Trading Card Game in the Modern Era with Assad Quraishi
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Thematically Informed Game Design with Jonny Pac
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Using Blue Ocean Strategy in Game Design with Marvin Hegen
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How to Expand on a Core Idea with Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson
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How to Put a New Twist on a Familiar Genre with Ariel Rubin and Juliana Moreno
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Designing Games with Higher Player Counts with Darren Terpstra
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Top 10 Photoshop Tips for Game Designers with Nicolas Fournier
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A Game about Game Design with Jon Spike
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How to Design a Pick-up and Deliver Game with Marcel Köhler
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The Pros and Cons of Doing Everything Yourself with Malachi Ray Rempen
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How to Reach the Next Generation with Lucas Sosnick
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Collecting and Analyzing Playtest Data with Robert Longtin
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Bipolarity, Depression, and Using Game Design to Cope with Morten Monrad Pederse...
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A Look Behind the Scenes at Exploding Kittens with Carol Mertz
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A Word of Encouragement from Gabe Barrett
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Designing Games Based on a Standard Deck of Cards with Luke Badger, Paul Abraham...
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How to Design Trick Taking Games with Fertessa Allyse
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Skill Barriers in Games with Jeff Fraser
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How and Why You Should Create Print-n-Play Games with Rachel Bruner
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How to Turn a Video Game into a Board Game with Perry Burkum
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(Community Spotlight) Using InDesign and Data Merge with Jeff Turner
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Developing Games and Working with Developers with Anthony Howgego
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How to Make a Super Thematic Game and Do Research with Dave Beck
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Experiential Graphic Design with Kate Otte
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(Community Spotlight) Evaluating Your Game with SWOT Analysis with Nick Murray
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(Community Spotlight) Layered Victory Conditions with Dan Hundycz
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How to Design and Publish Games with Justin Gary
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Why to Self Publish…or Not with Andrew Lowen
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Designing Puzzle Games with Janice Turner
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