Dune: What makes diplomacy so powerful?
While playing my first game of twilight imperium 3 a few days ago, we happen to talk about diplomacy and how good the diplomacy was in Dune.I never actually play the game but I read the rules and I...
View ArticlePoker- random thoughts
Been thinking about poker from a game design point of view, so this looked like a good place to post on it.The structure of poker is pretty simple. You are given information, a baseline chance of...
View ArticleGames that teach you design
This is perhaps a broader approach than normal for this particular sub-forum, so if you want to move it to a different one, feel free.Which 3 games have taught you the most about design, and what/how...
View ArticleTerra Prime: The Design Process
I spent a couple e-mails "interviewing" our own Seth Jaffee (sedjtroll) about the design process involved in bringing his recently-published Terra Prime from initial thought to published form.You can...
View ArticleCooperative games
I have hardly played any cooperative games, but it sounds like they could do a lot of interesting and fun things, so:1) What cooperative games do you like (what ones do you recommend)? 2) What do you...
View Articlegrid based game boards
Would you help me remember any game boards where you move across a square grid? The only one I can think of at the moment is Clue. Thanks
View ArticlePokamon (and or other CCGs)
What makes a great CCG?Why do/did they flourish in pop culture?I've seen Pokemon and Magic used as the stand in for "successful game". Are these really good games or do they succeed because of the...
View ArticleShogun - A game with a random set up each game
One of my favorite aspects of this game is the ramdomness of each set-up. For each space or "Territory" on the map there is a card to represent it. All of the cards are doled out. Each player places...
View ArticleSoviet Board Games 1920-1938
I'm not sure where I should place this topic, but I just came across this:http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/soviet-board-games-1920-1938/It looks fascinating. I don't know if more details about...
View ArticleMagic the Gathering - Room for improvement?
I am creating what you might call a modernization of Magic the Gathering. Or at the very least, my take on a game concept that does not seem to have any true rivals. (Edit: To be clear, this is an...
View ArticleTutsPlus just published the story of my first published board game
McFunkyPants had asked me to write an article about how I went from a video game background to getting my first board game published and how others can do the same. I've tried to cover the basic design...
View ArticleGame Design Analysis Thread
This year we've been writing about specific attributes of tabletop game design to assist up and coming designers.This week we did a design analysis of some of the attributes of Terra Mystica that...
View ArticleAre the old school classics like chess and go the ultimate?
Hello, I'm new here and I have just introduced myself in Welcome To BGDF with a post titled "Am I deluded?" where I talk about my love for the aesthetics of the old school classic games, such as chess,...
View ArticleMonopoly Deal: Secretly awesome, here's why.
Hey BGDF, I wrote an article de-constructing Monopoly Deal which is the card game version of Monopoly. I eventually borrowed many ideas from it's design around player engagement, check it out...
View ArticlePatience/Solitaire - Designing so it can be solved
Hi all, I have designed a variant, using a custom deck, of patience/solitaire & whilst I believe it is solveable I was wondering if anyone knows how you can test that it is actually able to be...
View ArticleDune: What makes diplomacy so powerful?
While playing my first game of twilight imperium 3 a few days ago, we happen to talk about diplomacy and how good the diplomacy was in Dune.I never actually play the game but I read the rules and I...
View ArticlePoker- random thoughts
Been thinking about poker from a game design point of view, so this looked like a good place to post on it.The structure of poker is pretty simple. You are given information, a baseline chance of...
View ArticleGames that teach you design
This is perhaps a broader approach than normal for this particular sub-forum, so if you want to move it to a different one, feel free.Which 3 games have taught you the most about design, and what/how...
View ArticleTerra Prime: The Design Process
I spent a couple e-mails "interviewing" our own Seth Jaffee (sedjtroll) about the design process involved in bringing his recently-published Terra Prime from initial thought to published form.You can...
View ArticleCooperative games
I have hardly played any cooperative games, but it sounds like they could do a lot of interesting and fun things, so:1) What cooperative games do you like (what ones do you recommend)? 2) What do you...
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