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I feel the EXACT same way. Never knew that there would be so much competition it would be "nearly" impossible to find a Publisher.

Same here.

It depends on what your terminology is used for. Board Game Mechanics can be "mostly" found on BGG given this link:

https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgamemechanic

FUN is usually intrinsic to my games. When playtesting, I usually figure out what WORKS and what DOESN'T. I would say that's MY biggest obstacle: making everything work "together".

And TBH I don't think anyone designs like @X3M does. Most of us have an IDEA of what we would want as a board game and then continue to "ADD" stuff to make it a GAME. Nobody I know is trying to mathematically solve their games. Heck some people don't even do Blind Playtesting.

No worries we are always around... Working on something or another. And yeah I like to EMPHASIZE words. I find it EXPRESSES my thoughts better. NO CAPS is like reading a BOOK: one paragraph after another. But with some EMPHASIS I manage to evoke more of what I am feeling and think is important.

I know SOME people tend to think this is annoying. I've even been accused once of being a LLM... Or that my writing was similar to an LLM. Go figure!

Again no problem. We don't see many newbies and how many STAY is very limited. But if you're looking for a place to SHARE ideas and get FEEDBACK ... Well this is a good place. We don't have to many regulars... But hey it is what it is and we'll see if your PERSPECTIVE adds to the content available from this website!

Glad you decided to JOIN! Cheers mate.

Note #1: And you see I pulled a "Doug Ford" tactic by re-ordering your initial OP into this "fake" ending! Hahaha... Straight like they did with Ronald Reagan. If you're from the USA... Don't worry our MPs do stupid things like taking out Fake Ads and wanting to "write" their OWN constitution... Part of the idiocy of living in Canada.

Hope you're not offended. Just a crazy Canuck who real enjoys the "Game Design" scene.

And again, Welcome!

Public as in an attempt to. I should have clarified that. We often play my hobby variant, we like to test new things that way.

As of rules?
I got over 50 pages worth of explanation on how to calculate something. But that is for me only.
I got a list of how to spend Action Points. This is the most complete list. I should add the phases of a game. Which is only 2 pages.
As for unit stats. We made new per most skirmishes. I calculated the design cost for them, often by hand.
All handwritten. And we still use the same symbols atm.
Think of a design like how a MtG card looks like.
Rules like assault unit or damage modifiers etc. Are all on that card.

We play, and we either move, attack or have a combination of this. See the action point spendong, lol.
Other rules like initiative...shortest range goes first unless noted otherwise on the USC, Unit Statistics Card.
Sure I noted it somewhere separately.

Yeah, the public version really would receive only 3 pages of rules and perhaps 3 pages of action points. Thats it.

No tables, sorry :)

Thats it

With zombies?

Funny, how one group, at one point removed all armor tiers and their corresponding damage tiers.
And simply went for infantry, anti infantry only designs.

They had all the possible weapons. Well balanced. But it was for teamgames.