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Sourcing Board Game Components: Cards

This is the first in a series of articles that are meant to help aspiring designers and published designers alike. The goal of these articles is to simply list some of the sources for different...

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Sourcing Game Components: Dice

Today is the final article in a series of four articles about where to find prototype worthy game components. Here is the list of articles from this series: Sourcing Cards: 9-5-13 Sourcing Meeples:...

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Prototype Art: Icons in Inkscape

One of the things that can take your game design from playable to pitchable is iconography. Icons can really help put a nice polish on a game. There are a few benefits that icons can provide for your...

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Prototype Art: Alignment in Inkscape

I use Inkscape for all of my game design artwork. It is relatively easy to use and is vector based, so I can make things larger or smaller as needed without any loss in picture quality. I’ve done a...

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Game Design: Starter Prototyping Tools

I recently asked myself the following question: “If I were to start over with game design, which prototyping tools would I buy to get started?” I’ve made numerous prototypes and I’ve learned what to do...

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How To Make A Quad-fold Board

When designing games it often becomes helpful or necessary to have a quality prototype, which often includes a quad-fold board. There are easy ways to do it, like taping a few pieces of paper together....

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