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Sneak Peek: Favorite Tips - November 2015

This month’s roundup of useful board game design links, delivered early for our Patreon backers!

Meaningful Decisions: Donald X. Vaccarino on Design Choices in Dominion

http://cardboardedison.com/blog/meaningful-decisions-donald-x-vaccarino-dominion

Cardboard Edison Award Judging Invitation

We're incredibly excited to be officially announcing the Cardboard Edison Award today, thanks to your support on Patreon!

We're lining up judges for the award, and we're inviting our patrons and a select group of others to participate.

Please fill out this brief survey (one question, plus your contact info) and let us know what role you'd be willing to play.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T3MQ5YM...

Sneak Peek: Donald X. Vaccarino on Dominion

Your patrons-only sneak peek at the next Meaningful Decisions interview, as voted on by you: Donald X. Vaccarino on Dominion!

Dominion established deck-building as a game mechanism, and many other games have sought to play around with the formula. How did you settle on the core elements around drawing, purchasing, discarding and reshuffling?

The premise was that you were building a deck while playing, and that everything was in the deck.

Since everything was ...

Meaningful Decisions: T.C. Petty III on Design Choices in VivaJava Dice

http://cardboardedison.com/blog/meaningful-decisions-tc-petty-vivajava-dice

Sneak Peek: Meaningful Decisions: T.C. Petty on VivaJava Dice

Here’s your patrons-only sneak peek at the next Meaningful Decisions interview, in which T.C. Petty III discusses VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game.

Enjoy!

CARDBOARD EDISON: Players in VivaJava Dice will advance on one of two tracks each turn: performance points, which bring them closer to victory, or research points, which let them build a game engine to score more performance points. How did you settle on this dual-track framework and balance both approaches?

Meaningful Decisions: Jason Tagmire on Design Choices in Maximum Throwdown

http://cardboardedison.com/blog/meaningful-decisions-jason-tagmire-maximum-throwdown

Sneak Peek: Meaningful Decisions: Jason Tagmire on Maximum Throwdown

The next installment of Meaningful Decisions, as voted on by you, will feature Jason Tagmire discussing Maximum Throwdown.

Enjoy this patrons-only sneak peek!

CARDBOARD EDISON: Players play Maximum Throwdown while standing around the table, instead of sitting. When it’s played in public, it always draws a crowd of spectators. Was this an intended effect of having the players sta...

Giveaway: NOIR: Black Box Edition

This month we're excited to be giving away four copies of NOIR: Black Box Edition from Level 99 Games!

NOIR is a cat-and-mouse game with lots of different play modes, and earlier this year Level 99 even opened up the game to designers who want to create variants.

We’ll randomly draw the name of four patrons (at the Associate level or higher) on Dec. 1, 2015. 2015-11-04 14:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - October 2015

http://cardboardedison.com/blog/2015/11/1/cardboard-edisons-favorite-tips-resources-october-2015

Sneak Peek: Favorite Tips - October 2015

Our monthly roundup of favorite board game design links, delivered early for our patrons!

featured:

• View From a Deal: The board game industry as seen in publishing contracts

licensing:

• “Don’t just seek a license. Seek a great partner for you and your game.” - Grant Rodiek 2015-11-01 16:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post

October 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

View From a Deal: The board game industry as seen in publishing contracts

Sneak Peek: New Licensing Survey Infographic!

We're very excited to be close to releasing the final infographic in our series on licensing contract terms!

Your support of this campaign made the series possible, and we're so happy to give you this sneak peek of the final installment. (There will be some minor fixes before the public release.)

Don't forget, you can see all of the previous infographics on our website. Thanks again for all of your support. We...

Giveaway: Gothic Doctor

For October, we have a special Halloween treat for you. We’re giving away Gothic Doctor, a game of monstrous medicine!

Doug Levandowski, the game’s co-designer, is no stranger to Cardboard Edison. Aside from co-designing the Unpub card game that we gave away last month, he’s contributed 2015-10-05 14:39:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - September 2015

http://cardboardedison.com/blog/favorite-tips-september-2015

September 2015 Patreon supported

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Sneak Peek: Favorite Tips - September 2015

Here's your patron-only preview of our monthly list of favorite board game design tips!

Meaningful Decisions: Jamey Stegmaier on Design Choices in Euphoria

http://cardboardedison.com/blog/meaningful-decisions-jamey-stegmaier-euphoria

Sneak Peek: Meaningful Decisions: Jamey Stegmaier on Euphoria

Here’s your patron-only preview of the next installment of Meaningful Decisions, as voted on by you!

CARDBOARD EDISON: Even though Euphoria is a competitive game, players are encouraged to cooperate in several ways, such as by jointly completing the constructed markets, advancing the allegiance tracks and digging the tunnels. How did you identify areas in your design where players could cooperate?

JAMEY STEGMAIER: In Euphoria, the idea of competitive cooperation stemmed from th...

Introducing CardboardEdison.com

Today we took a big step toward achieving our vision of Cardboard Edison as the best board game designer resource online--we've launched CardboardEdison.com!

Our tips blog has a new permanent home (don't worry, the Tumblr will remain active) and all of our original materials 2015-09-21 00:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Milestones: Interviews, Publisher Directory & Podcast

We quietly added some new milestones to our campaign page a little while ago, but we wanted to make it official and give you some more details about these very exciting projects!

MORE INTERVIEWS: At $400 a month, we’ll start a new line of designer interviews. While Meaningful Decisions<...

Giveaway: Unpub: The Unpublished Card Game

It’s no secret we’re huge fans of the Unpub program for unpublished designs. So we’re very excited this month to be giving away a meta-game inspired by the group.

Unpub: The Unpublished Card Game by Dice Hate Me Games and Greater Than Games gets players to come up with game concepts and pitch them to the table. It�...

Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - August 2015

Our monthly roundup of excellent board game design links and tips this month includes an interesting method of solo testing, practical advice for pitch sessions, some reminders about the industry and more…
http://cardboardedison.tumblr.com/post/128112598561/favorite-tips-august-2015

August 2015 Patreon supported

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Sneak Peak: Favorite Tips - August 2015

Here's your early look at our monthly list of favorite board game design links!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sdpGsObqKR1Ptcs6oA1FLUdBF9qBC-sGDDDGYACLHtY/edit?usp=sharing

Giveaway: Tesla vs. Edison

We have a special connection to most of our giveaways, but this month is the first one that has our namesake in its title. We’re very pleased to be able to give away a copy of the new game Tesla vs. Edison: War of Currents by Artana Games!

You might know the game’s designer, Dirk Knemeyer, as the cohost of the always-insightful 2015-08-10 12:51:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - July 2015

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July 2015 Patreon supported

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Sneak Peak: Favorite Tips - July 2015

Here's your early look at our monthly list of favorite board game design links! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i5WmY3ZLNaPNvt2EH0yJ_HBXtZoaxxWL_4hqvgHKOak/edit?usp=sharing