Board Game Design Advice: From the Best in the World

By: Gabe Barrett

Narrated by: Adam Naranjo

Take your games to the next level with advice from more than 60 of the best board game designers in the world.

Game design is hard. We all need sound advice to guide our work and help us become better at the craft. In this book you'll find incredible wisdom and insight from the top designers in the industry today. You will learn:

• The advice Rob Daviau would give his younger self.
• How Matt Leacock gets into the zone and flow of design.
• Lessons Jamey Stegmaier learned from his biggest failure.
• Donald X. Vaccarino's advice on pitching a game to a publisher.
• The behavior that has helped Ryan Laukat's designs dramatically improve.
• What Bruno Cathala would tell you after a discouraging playtest.
• And much more!

©2018 Gabe Barrett (P)2018 Gabe Barrett

Great, but gets redundant

There's gold in this book, but hearing the same questions gets old after a while. Really great info here but hearing the same questions for hours makes it hard to listen all the way through without breaks. Also, some of the advice is repeated and the big takeaways are repeated over and over. Would have been nice to consolidate and say xyz all give similar advice regarding X.

great advice!

If I want my board game design career to be a good one I want advice from the best in the world. This book gives you a peek inside the world's best game designers. I highly recommend.

Views that can help any game designer

Tons of good interviews that bring a lot of different in insights. Since all the interviews have the same questions you get different viewpoints on the same topic. Can be a bit monotone to listen to so I ended up taking it bit for bit.

Lots of practical knowledge

Be forewarned, the format of the book is just a bunch of Q and A's with published game designers which can be a little repetitive. I didn't mind though, I enjoyed the content, the various answers, and the practical helpful knowledge. Definitely recommend this book if you are an aspiring game designer.

An amazing collection of thoughts

Listening to this book gave me a huge burst of inspiration to fix what's wrong with the game I've been working and has opened my eyes to many more possibilities once this one is done! Thank you so much!