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Welcome to the Board Game Designers Forum

It's Your Turn!

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This site is intended to be a helpful resource for all aspects of designing board games — game design, prototyping, playtesting, publishing, and much more. It contains content within the pages of this wiki-style site, plus an active community of users interacting via the site's Forums and other features.

Getting Started:

• New User Guide
• Site FAQ
• Site Features Overview

Primary Game Design Content:

• Game Design - Including: Design Process, Game Types, Game Mechanics, Themes, Player Goals, Common Design Problems, Player Interaction, Sources of Tension, and Existing Games as Examples
• Prototyping - Including: Making Game Boards, Making Cards, Making Bits, Useful Tools, Software, Game Bit Resources
• Playtesting - Including: Solo Playtesting, Internal Playtesting, Blind Playtesting
• Publishing - Including: Publishing Options, Publishing Markets, Self Publication Resources, Licensing Resources?, Entering Contests?, List of Publishers, Legal Issues, Professional Services, Copyrights and Patents
• Probabilities - "Including: Probability of Dice, more TBD.

• Brown Bag Chat Transcripts

• Designers FAQ
• Game Maker's Glossary

• Articles Elsewhere Online
• Other Games-related Websites

BGDF Community:

• BGDF Forums
• Game Design Workshop
• Game Design Showdown
• Game Design Database
• Calendar of Events
• Community Members
• BGDF Success Stories
• Virtual Playtesting Software

Other Important Links:

• Game Designer Get-Togethers
• Current Game Design Contests
• Game Conventions