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by Emily Vincent I designed Knitting Circle during my first year as a game designer. I set the goal of designing as many games as possible so that I could build up my design skills quickly. I wanted to work on a lot of different types of games and ...

by Justin Bell One of the best things about being a media member, content creator, and/or influencer in the tabletop space right now is that we get the chance to play lots of new and often unreleased games before the masses. It's a blast to be able ...

by Mike Peacock "On your turn, activate all of your faceup card powers"That's the hook of Flippers, a hook that causes penguin chaos with every card. In this diary, I'd like to waddle through the challenging path that led me to one simple hook.It ...

by Elizabeth Hargrave My game Sanibel is a love letter to my dad and to Sanibel Island. I'd like to tell you a little more about how it came to be. The BeginningMy dad got a job at the University of Florida in the mid-1980s, and declared he would ...

by Roman Zadorozhnyy Some games begin with mechanics. Some begin with prototypes. And some begin with a place. For Hnefatafl: Valhalla, everything started with a journey. Norway, Gods, and a Feeling That Never Left A few years ago, my wife and I ...

by Felix Sonne I have been hearing that wargamers are getting "extinct" because nobody has the time to spend half a day playing games anymore and no one wants to play on a sad looking paper map. The thing is, it does not need to be that way. Wargames ...

by Matt Leacock Matt Leacock: The design of The Four Doors followed a long, meandering route. It was the result of four different designers working alongside four different publishers to produce no fewer than five different games. I thought it'd be ...

by Justin Bell Hey hey folks! I'm excited to be a part of the team here at BoardGameGeek as a contributor on the BoardGameGeek News blog. You'll see me here every week and I'll pop up with extra content from time to time, between articles and via ...

by Courtney Shernan One day in the summer of 2019, I was sitting on the couch with my little loaf Trixie, watching her lick my hand over and over, so I would keep petting her. It made me think about all of the ways that she would get me to do things ...

by Beth Heile We've recently made some big changes with our Preview lists, and things kick off with this list for Festival International des Jeux (FIJ) and GAMA Expo.Previously, publishers filled out a form and BGG staff and volunteers entered that ...