Lots of games are about building. Over the course of the game, you're creating a sort of engine that generates the conditions for victor...

I think board game designers would learn a lot from playing a few rounds of Fiasco. Fiasco is a story-focused one-session roleplaying game...

Luke Laurie has a useful post listing some strategies that game designers can use to cut down on "analysis paralysis" -- the tend...

Max Seidman suggests that game designers should think about balancing a game in terms of ensuring meaningful choices rather than ensuring fa...

In the few years I've been seriously working on game design, I've gotten to playtesting stage on around a dozen games. In the course...