Creating a board game or party game isn’t child’s play

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Creating games has always been a passion of mine and seeing a game you invented on the shelf is tremendously satisfying.  When you’re creating a game though, there are always time and budget pressures and particularly if you’re self-publishing, you need to have a business hat as well as a creative hat.  Creating the game concept, the design, the rules, writing the cards, finding a manufacturer or publisher and promoting it are all sizeable tasks and trying to do everything can seem overwhelming.
As the co-founder of Indigoextra - www.indigoextra.com/game-illustration, a web, internet marketing and games design company, I’ve been part of a team helping design multiple board and party games over the last ten years and we’ve just created a new party game, Funny Feeling (see www.funnyfeelinggame.com), I’ve gained some valuable insights and made some mistakes along the way that with hindsight, would have been easy to avoid.