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Resources

This is a list of game designer resources that is being compiled and maintained for readers of Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers. 

Prototyping Supplies

  • Print your own graph paper
  • Items for your prototyping kit (on Amazon)
  • Putting together an under $20 prototyping kit at a dollar store
  • Pound-o-Dice

Games

  • Arcade games online
  • BoardSpace (tabletop abstract strategy games online)
  • Cyningstan Traditional Board Games (print & play games and informational leaflets)
  • Funagain (tabletop game store)
  • MS-DOS games online
  • Pagat (huge repository of rules to playing card & tile games)

Websites

  • Board Game Links
  • BoardGameGeek (a place to look up board game info & talk to fellow board game geeks)
  • Boing Boing offworld (blog postings about games)
  • Extra Credits (game design lessons in video podcasts)
  • Game Studies (online academic game journal)
  • Project Horseshoe reports (a game design think tank)

Designer Blogs

  • James Ernest
  • Bruno Faidutti (in French & English)
  • Raph Koster

Game Review Sites

  • Board Games with Scott (YouTube videos)
  • The Dice Tower

 

[More Resources to come.]

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