Chapter 2: Your Game Idea
Helpful Online Resources
Here are some helpful blog entries from one of the true masters of game design, Jamey Stegmaier:
An Open Letter to Game Designers
What I Wish I Would Have Known Before I Got into Game Design
Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless
Here are some support groups:
Board Game Designers Forum
Card & Board Game Designers Facebook Group
An Open Letter to Game Designers
What I Wish I Would Have Known Before I Got into Game Design
Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless
Here are some support groups:
Board Game Designers Forum
Card & Board Game Designers Facebook Group
Popular Game Mechanics
Here are some additional examples of games you should play to learn about the different popular game mechanics. We tried to select games that embody the game mechanic listed.
Here are some additional examples of games you should play to learn about the different popular game mechanics. We tried to select games that embody the game mechanic listed.
Deck Building
- Dominion
- Clank!
- Star Realms
- Hero Realms
- Valley of the Kings
- Friday
- Super Motherload
- Core Worlds
- Legendary
- Mage Knight
Set Collection
- Lost Cities
- Battle Line
- Jaipur
- Ticket to Ride
- Morels
- Onirim
- Coloretto
- Sushi Go!
- Ra
- Bohnanza
Worker Placement
- Lords of Waterdeep
- Stone Age
- Caylus
- Pillars of the Earth
- Agricola
- The Manhattan Project
- Alien Frontiers
- Keyflower
- Le Havre
- Vitaculture
- Marco Polo
- Trickerion
- Orleans
- Charterstone
Social Deduction
- Werewolf
- A Fake Artist goes to New York
- Battlestar Galactica
- Coup
- Masquerade
- Salem 1692
- Spyfall/Spyfall 2
- Shadows over Camelot
- The Resistance: Avalon
- Secret Hitler
Area Control
- Ethnos
- Small World
- Tammany Hall
- Twilight Struggle
- El Grande
- Lancaster
- Mission Red Plant
- Cyclades
- Medina
- Blood Rage
- Godfather
- Wallenstein/Shogun
- Kemet
Take That
- Nothing Personal
- Colt Express
- Kahuna
- Cash and Guns
- Citadels
- Smash Up
- Merchants and Marauders
- Bang the Dice Game
- Family Business
- Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
- Seasons
- Guildhall
Auction/Bidding
- Power Grid
- Modern Art
- Ra
- Amun-Re
- Medici
- For Sale
- Fleet
- Going, Going, Gone
- Jarvic
Roll-and-Write
- Harvest Dice
- Qwixx
- Qwinto
- SteamRollers
- Roll Through the Ages
- Can't Stop Express
- Avenue
- Dice Stars
Cooperative Games
- Dead of Winter
- Mansions of Madness
- Castle Panic
- Gloomhaven
- Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
- Pandemic
- Flash Point
- Eldritch Horror
- Forbidden Island/Desert
- Mechs vs. Minions
- Healthy Heart Hospital
- T.I.M.E Stories
Dice Rolling Games
- Roll for the Galaxy
- King of Tokyo
- Roll Player
- Sagrada
- Kingsburg
- Bang the Dice Game
- Strike
- Quarriors
- Favor of the Pharaoh
- Escape: The Curse of the Temple
- Pandemic: The Cure