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Board Game Design Lab — 497 episodes · page 1 of 5
6 Takeaways from the game that took 10 years to make
How to build a million dollar publishing company with Amy and Dusty Droz
Game Design Trends for 2025 with Jamey Stegmaier
Game Marketing Made Simple with Andrew Lowen
My new book will help you find the FUN
The design process of one of the world’s best designers, Corey Konieczka
How to Design an Engine Building Game with Elizabeth Hargrave
How to Design Games that Tell Stories with Ignacy Trzewiczek
Using math to make your games better with Emerson Matsuuchi
Finding the Right Mixture of Luck and Skill with Richard Garfield
Your game design questions answered
How to Publish Games with a Grassroots Approach | Joe Bragg
How to Boost Creativity and Avoid Tropes | Jason Perez
Listen to this BEFORE you start an indie publishing company | John de Campos
Board Game Design Productivity Hacks with Gabe Barrett
Do this BEFORE designing a game | Leo Taylor
How to Make Money from Your Game Design Hobby with Joe Slack
Designing Games FOR and WITH Young Kids with Elan Lee
4 Amazing (and Useful) Examples of Board Game Design Theory with Geoff Engelstein
Why You Should Create Print-n-Play Games with Jason Greeno
The Games Every Designer MUST Play with Pam Walls
How to Playtest like a Pro with Rob Daviau
How to Create More Game Designers with Jay Cormier
How to Design AND Publish games with Ben Downton
10 Steps to Go from Nothing to Crowdfunding Campaign with Kyle Sussenbach
71 Ways to Become a Better Game Designer with Gabe Barrett
Small Games that Pack a Big Punch with Jason Tagmire
How to Craft the Perfect Player Experience with Jonny Pac
How to Design Fun Games with James Ernest
How to Have Massive Success on Kickstarter with Amy and Dusty Droz
How to Get Featured on Podcasts and Sound Great with Justin Kral
My Crowdfunding Failure: A Post Mortem with Andrew Lowen
Art, Working with Artists, and Becoming Your Best Creative Self with Jorge Velez
The Legal Side of Creating Games with Zachary Strebeck
How to Balance Game Design with a Full Time Job with Sen-Foong Lim
How to Work on Lots of Projects at Once with Peter C. Hayward
How to Make Money Designing Games with Jamey Stegmaier
So, where were we?
See You Space Cowboy with Gabe Barrett and Jamey Stegmaier
(Celebrating 300 Episodes!) The Design Journey of Alan Moon
Our Best Game Design Advice with Peter C. Hayward
Designing Games with Your Kids with Patrick McNeil
Designing Games Based on Real-Life Systems with Ben Rosset
How to Design Take That Games with Steph and Jess Nguyen
[BGDL Community Spotlight] How to Design Drafting Games with Jesse Stacy
[BGDL Community Spotlight] The 3 Stages of Prototyping with Gino Brancazio
How to Get the Most out of Your Crowdfunding Campaign with Andrew Lowen and Sean Bradford
How to Run a Publishing Company with Rob Dougherty
Designing Open World Games with Ryan Laukat
Teaching Board Game Design with Matt Bivens
Designing Greeting Card Games with Jess Metheringham
How to Design a Race Game with Kathleen Mercury
How to Design Asymmetrical Games with Stephen Schwartz and Floyd Lu
How to Design Route Building Games with Ted Alspach
[BGDL Community Spotlight] Print-on-Demand Publishing with Arthur Franz
[BGDL Community Spotlight] Designing an Abstract Dexterity Game with Frank Sarro
The Design Process of Phil Walker-Harding
How to Multiply Your Time with Carla Kopp
How to Design 2 Player Games with Alf Seegert
Community Building with Carol Mertz and Elan Lee
Building a Million Dollar Board Game Company with Kevin Carroll and Steve Mark
[BGDL Community Spotlight] Designing Monster Taming Games with Tyler Langtimm
[BGDL Community Spotlight] How to Promote Your Game in Facebook Groups with Thomas Covert
Designing Set Collection Games with Steve Finn
[BGDL Community Spotlight] Creating a Business Plan with Jasper Burch
[BGDL Community Spotlight] Component First Game Design with Scott Smith
Manufacturing Frequently Asked Questions with Hersh Glueck
The Making of Imperium with David Turczi and Nigel Buckle
Designing Storytelling Games with Jerry Hawthorne
Entangled Decision Making in Games with Fabio Lopiano
How to Design a Cooperative Game with Mike Kelley
Designing a Trading Card Game in the Modern Era with Assad Quraishi
Thematically Informed Game Design with Jonny Pac
Using Blue Ocean Strategy in Game Design with Marvin Hegen
How to Expand on a Core Idea with Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson
How to Put a New Twist on a Familiar Genre with Ariel Rubin and Juliana Moreno
Designing Games with Higher Player Counts with Darren Terpstra
Top 10 Photoshop Tips for Game Designers with Nicolas Fournier
A Game about Game Design with Jon Spike
How to Design a Pick-up and Deliver Game with Marcel Köhler
The Pros and Cons of Doing Everything Yourself with Malachi Ray Rempen
How to Reach the Next Generation with Lucas Sosnick
Collecting and Analyzing Playtest Data with Robert Longtin
Bipolarity, Depression, and Using Game Design to Cope with Morten Monrad Pedersen
A Look Behind the Scenes at Exploding Kittens with Carol Mertz
A Word of Encouragement from Gabe Barrett
Designing Games Based on a Standard Deck of Cards with Luke Badger, Paul Abrahams, and Andy Richdale
How to Design Trick Taking Games with Fertessa Allyse
Skill Barriers in Games with Jeff Fraser
How and Why You Should Create Print-n-Play Games with Rachel Bruner
How to Turn a Video Game into a Board Game with Perry Burkum
(Community Spotlight) Using InDesign and Data Merge with Jeff Turner
Developing Games and Working with Developers with Anthony Howgego
How to Make a Super Thematic Game and Do Research with Dave Beck
Experiential Graphic Design with Kate Otte
(Community Spotlight) Evaluating Your Game with SWOT Analysis with Nick Murray
(Community Spotlight) Layered Victory Conditions with Dan Hundycz
How to Design and Publish Games with Justin Gary
Why to Self Publish…or Not with Andrew Lowen
Designing Puzzle Games with Janice Turner