The Board Game Designer's Guide

The Easy 4 Step Process to Create Amazing Games That People Can't Stop Playing

By: Joe Slack

Narrated by: Joe Slack

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Do you have a board game idea but can't get it out of your head? Use my "four I's" framework and you'll get your game to the table and quickly discover if it will be the next Cards Against Humanity (hint: good!) or the next Trump: The Game (hint: not so good!).

Have you made a game, but it's just sitting in a closet somewhere? Dust off that box and let The Board Game Designer's Guide get you unstuck and finish your game for good!

Is your game done but you don't know what to do next? In section six, I'll walk you through all the options available so you can finally figure out which one is right for you and grow a huge legion of fans all proclaiming "Whoever invented this game is a friggin' genius!"

Don't let your board game idea sit on a shelf or in your head. There are thousands of people out there who want to play it. You need to share your amazing game with the world! Now, you finally can....

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Joe Slack (P)2017 Joe Slack

Informative!!

This book helped answer many questions about the publishing side as well as being inspirational.

Fine Book

Pretty great, i don't agree with everything he said, but most of it works wonders.

Inspiring!

This book boils down a huge industry to easy bite-sized steps to understand. Loved it!

A good basic resource

This is a great beginners guide, very simple blueprint to walk you through the steps it takes to create and publish a game.

Amazing book on game design!

If you are thinking of designing games, buy this book! It talks about what factors make games fun, different mechanics of gameplay, game publishers, marketing etc.

Essential

What an informative, insightful listen. Thank you so much of laying out this process in an actionable and achievable set of plans.

Fast resource to get you excited

Fast paced, helpful, and to the point. A good starter for anyone interested in design at any level.

good for basics

good narrator and we'll written, but it is mostly the basics, but it is a great first step to game design. I hope that Joe will make a book that gose more in depth other than the book about top ten mistakes that new board game designers make. over all I would recommend to any one new to game design.

Basic intro to the creative process

There really isn't much here about board games. Rather, it's about the basics of the creative process: keep a notebook, do your research etc.

Anyone looking for an actual guide to developing a board game will be disappointed.

so generic

This, to me, was nothing more than a generic pep talk which could apply to publishing a novel, making a game, or excelling at college, or getting a girlfriend. I think this appeals more to someone in need of "motivation" to try to make a board game versus someone needing the cold hard tools to create it with. Well narrated and well written, but definitely not what I was seeking. There's no table of contents on Amazon via the 'look inside' or on Audible, so I had to put in the time to find out it's a lot of fluff.