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Board Game Design Advice: From the Best in the World
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- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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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:
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This is an audiobook for busy people. If you want less on your plate and more for your life and career, tune in to the #1 Wall Street Journal best seller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The ONE Thing will bring your life and your work into focus. Authors Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teach you the tricks to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, dial down stress, and master what matters to you.
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The law of attraction tells us that whatever we focus our attention on, consciously or not, we attract into our lives. Think happy thoughts, enjoy happy experiences. And vice versa. The best-selling Begin with Yes introduces the law of action, a principle that reverses the order - and is equally powerful: What we do affects how we think and the kinds of experiences we have. When we take small, manageable steps, we feel more positive, and our lives flow more smoothly. Begin with Yes is all about setting things in motion and opening new doors. Getting unstuck.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-03-20
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.
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- meekerms
- 10-05-19
A wonderful headache
Imagine a journalist that interviewed 100 people, asking them 2-12 identical questions a piece. 12 questions, 100 people. Imagine then that this journalist recorded each answer, tagging them 1-12. The journalist then read their raw notes into audio book format.
The information is like gold and listening to the book is like digging for said gold. The format is so painful to drag through, despite the awesome insights, I stopped listening with 3hrs more to go.
Someone could make a very good and insightful book from this pool of headache fuel.
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- Myles T.
- 02-08-19
Insightful
This is a neat and helpful book! It has advice from some of the worlds best board game designers. I would recommend giving it a listen if you’re trying to design a game.
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- Andrew Darlow
- 02-16-23
A truly priceless book for any game designer
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book until I heard that the book: Tribe of Mentors, by Tim Ferriss was its inspiration.
The sheer volume of helpful advice and game/product suggestions, spoken from the heart by many successful game designers, is truly incredible.
The advice from just a few of the more than 60 designers would have been worth the price of this audiobook.
My sincere thanks goes out to Gabe Barrett, the narrator, and all those who participated.
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- Kayla
- 10-28-19
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-22-19
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.
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- Ryan & Lindsey
- 07-11-23
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.
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- Nitoro Hakubo
- 12-30-18
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!
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- M. Grace
- 08-04-21
Great book - awful audio
Imagine narrating a book of tables. There's no structure to this, it's as if you've just stuck it through Text to Speech - rendering a lot of the very useful information impossible to refer to.
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- Ventures
- 01-05-19
Uncurated to its detriment
Random advice from creators, Uncurated to its detriment. Half the audio for some chapters is just the narrator repeating the question.
A few gems of advice present. But not worth digging for in my humble opinion. Search elsewhere my friend.
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