The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

By Mike Selinker, Richard Garfield, Steve Jackson , David Howell , Jeff Tidball , Richard C. Levy , Matt Forbeck , Dale Yu , James Ernest , Rob Daviau

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Pull up a chair and see how the world's top game designers roll.
You want your games to be many things: Creative. Innovative. Playable. Fun. If you're a designer, add "published" to that list.

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider's view on how to make…

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1 author picked The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jesse Schell

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If your goal is to create board games, you really should read this book. If your goal is to create video games, you should also be creating boardgames. You get so much more game design experience creating a board game, because you can iterate so much more. Creating board games is a secret shortcut to becoming an experienced game designer, and this is the best book I know on how to do it well.

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