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.... with a strong focus on strategic and tactical games with little to no luck involved. My first sort-of finished design is a pirate board game named Shiver me Timbers which I am currently show casing to different publishers.

So far, the feedback was very positive, though most publishers claim the game to be cool but too expensive to manufacture. :-) Therefore, I'm currently looking into Kickstarter as an alternative, but nothing is decided yet.

As for me personally, I'm living in Germany, married with 3 kids, and working as an technical editor. I am an avid gamer who moved from chess to Magic to Board Games and later to design. After years of lurking on BGG and over here, I decided to participate in the community last year when I became more serious about publishing my stuff.

So much for now - oh, and it's awesome to find so many likeminded people in one place :-)

Michal

I am very glad to be bgdf forum pleasant trip!

Hi

I started to design a game couple months ago.. And it lead me here. I hope to learn abut designing, testing, writing rules and stuff... and introduce my idea to fellow bgdf users.

Greetings everyone. I actually wrote long forum entries yesterday so I hope this intro isn't too belated.

I'm Sean. I'm in Queensland, Australia. I'm 47 so I don't have the time or funds to play like I used to. Games I've loved would include RPG's, tabletop board games like Talisman and Space Hulk, Chaos Marauders and Illuminati and in the nineties I got into Magic: The Gathering in a big way.

I'm also a professional tarot reader and musician - website at www.alternateparallelreality.com - and yes, I am working on a game I'll be promoting from that site too when it's ready.

What I'm working on is based around Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Investigators as seen in so many reality TV shows these days - assemble your team and get fame and fortune. I plan it to have a lot of humour in it because these shows make me giggle.

Hi People!

My name is Jay. I have been moonlighting as a game designer for several years now. Even though I haven't successfully made a game work, I am still interested in trying. No, that's not really it; the issue is I am always being attacked by game ideas and feel that I need to give each of them my attention.

I love the creative aspects of game design such as the art, graphic design, game flow, and player experience. My biggest problem, for you too I imagine, is getting stuck in a rut while developing a game and not knowing if I should persist or move on to another idea.

My main interest is learning about the process of publication. I have some ideas and know that they need a lot of play testing. But, I am clueless of how to proceed after that. Also, I have been working in isolation and ready to meet other designers.

cheers!

if you have spare energy. Ultimately I will need an illustrator, which will be expensive, but there are lots of graphic design issues that come up at the prototype stage.

Do you have a game of your own in mind? Maybe start a thread on it.

Hello everyone.

I have been playing around with game design for some time. So far I have developed a dozen prototypes, some of them even playable. Now I have found out that this forum exists and I'm looking forward to sharing some of my experiences and ideas.

I'm also making game related artwork for a living and I enjoy working with card and board games. I'm available for hire but I can also offer some help and advice on how to make affordable good looking game or prototype.

Is this a good place for this kind of shameless self promotion?

First off, I love Pirate games, and judging by the name alone, it sounds fun. That's awesome you are getting positive feedback from the publishers about the gameplay.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if professionals say it's too expensive to manufacture, why do you think you can manufacture it? In other words, why do you think it will successfully fund on Kickstarter?

Have you looked into the production cost of the game? What KS goal would you need to achieve to produce the game?

If manufacturers truly are telling you, "Hey, this game is fun, but we don't think it's economically feasible to produce." then maybe you should focus on the game's issue and make it economically feasible to produce, instead of producing it yourself.

Welcome to the club! Game design is trial by fire. But it seems you embrace the learning curve with humility. That's an excellent first step.

BTW, I love deck builders. So I hope you remain passionate enough to continue developing your design.

To be honest, it sounds like you don't know exactly what you want out of game design, or that you are simply scatter brained. My recommendation would be to decide what you want out of game design. Do you want to self publish your own game? Or do you want to get it published by an established company?

If you struggle with staying focused, I'd try to get a game published by someone else. They will handle a lot of the artwork, graphic design, manufacturing, etc etc etc. Publishing a game requires hundreds of hours of project management, taking away from your design time.

Regarding your game ideas, start with one. Which of your ideas sounds the most fun to you? It's great to have other game ideas, and you should jot those ideas down and keep them in reserve for later. But if you spend hours, days, weeks, months developing multiple game ideas, you will likely not finish any one of them. And one of the driving characteristics a game designer (and publisher) needs is laser focus.

None of us are immune to any of these issues. I struggle with focusing myself sometimes.

Hi, welcome! In this site I'm new too! I am going to make this as short and super simple as I can. My name is Banjamin, but friends call me just Ben. If you want, you can call me Ben too, it's easier. i think this site is awesome, interesting and informative, so for this reason I joined in this community! What is your favorite game? My favorite game is Stardew Valley. Do you know this game? If yes, what do you think? If no, more information can get from this page: http://www.gamespedition.com/pc-games/indie-games/indie-role-playing-gam...

Hello Everyone,
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I alreay have 10 new game ideas. I want them to become physical games in the game market. However, I need share my game ideas to professionals to know if people like my ideas or not.
I want to become your friends.

Hi BGDF community!
My name is Ali Ludlow and I am a member of Triangle Ink, LLC, along with Brittany Jones. We are currently working on launching a Kickstarter campaign for our card/tabletop game 'Whatever.' It is a party game that we have been developing for the last 10 months. On November 18th we will be going live with our Kickstarter!! We are super excited but would love to hear some feedback on one of our project videos from this community!

Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4OtZG6suvs&sns=em

We are excited to hear from you!!

Ali & Brittany

Hey board game world! I work for a company called Golden Monkey Games. I asked them how we wanted to be represented within the board game community and they thought that I should be the voice and called me the Golden Monkey.

As a company we are just starting out and are working on a game called Unicorns Friend or Foe. There are two versions of the game one where you are sending out cute creatures with gifts to befriend the unicorns. You can make the creature or gift more appealing with descriptor cards that will make you be able to either befriend more unicorns or befriend the special unicorns. You can use as many descriptions as you have in your hand. For example you could send out a 'cute' 'baby' dragon with 'a box full' of 'rainbow colored' puppies. Each description and gift has a value that you add up and if that total is higher or equal to the value of the unicorn you can befriend it. The Foe edition is the same concept but instead of befriending the unicorns you are killing them. So you could have a 'Massive' dragon with an 'epic' 'nuclear' frying pan!

I created a profile on here because I am eager to absorb as much information as possible about the design process. It is extremely intimidating to jump into a pond this big. I'm just a little fish looking for survival tips.
I found out about this forum from listening to Gabe's Board Game Design Lab podcast. Which by the way has great and insightful, thanks Gabe!

I hope to learn a lot and try to contribute as much as possible. Thanks!