Board Game Design Lab's blog

Richard Launius, designer of Arkham Horror, shares great, veteran advice on how to design an AI system for both co-op and non co-op games.

Check out the episode here: http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/making-a-good-ai-system-with-richard-l...

Daniel Zayas, a member of the Kickstarter Expert program, discusses what the program is and how it works. He also gives some really great advice on how to run a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Check out the episode here: http://wp.me/p7qg8b-dj

Mike Mihealsick, from Coalition Games, discusses all the lessons and insights he’s learned after facilitating hundreds of blind playtests. Blind playtesting is the purifying fire in which we truly get to find out what our games are made of, and Mike offers a ton of advice on how to navigate the process well.

Check out the episode here: http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/lessons-learned-from-blind-playtesting...

Morten Pedersen, designer behind the solo modes for games such as Scythe and Viticulture, discusses how to scale a game down to one player and create a great solo experience.

Morten has his own design company that focuses on creating single player systems for games and has even won awards for it.

To listen to the episode, go here:

http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/creating-a-great-solo-variant-with-mor...

Chris Rowlands, designer of Last Garden and host of NPC-Cast, discusses creating awesome content that helps people as much as possible and also builds up goodwill toward you and your games.

The board game community is incredible, and there are tons of opportunities to help fellow designers and add value to what they’re trying to create. And in doing so, you build relationships that will likely lead to people wanting to help you when the opportunity arises.

Check out the episode here: http://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/content-as-marketing-with-chris-rowlands/