How to Design a Board Game
If you have an idea for a board game and want to see it come to fruition, here are some steps to help you get your idea for a board game into a playable format.
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Sketch out the design of your board game either on paper or the computer. Is the board square? How do players move around the playing area? How do players advance spaces? These and many more questions that have to do with the physical layout of the game will need to be addressed during the design phase.
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Determine the game play. What does the game entail? Will players answer questions? Will they need pen and paper? Or is the game more luck based? Think about how players actually play the game. Write up the rules to the game including an example of a player's turn and winning conditions.
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Transfer the design to the cardboard that will provide a sturdy playing area. Borrow game pieces from other board games to make your prototype playable. You can also use an old board game by gluing your design over the printed game board.
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Test your board game. Ask for honest feedback from friends and family. Also find local board game clubs that would be willing to play your game. If they are, then make a feedback form and ask each person to fill it out. This way you can improve on your board game design to appeal to a larger audience.
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If you want to bring your board game to market, either find a game publisher willing to publish your game or self-publish it. Self-publishing will mean finding a manufacturer and funding to have the games made. Look for the best deal possible and seek out advice from other self-publishers (see Resources below).
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Tips & Warnings
Your friends and family may love your new game, but might not be the most objective people.
If you don't know what's already available on the market, you might spend a lot of time and money on a game that is already available.
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Clap clap clap. Another exceptional eHow contributor at work. How on earth they get away with such a low quality of work is astounding, unless stating the patently obvious is a valuable skill? Perhaps Lynn the state of the world is such that we need such tutorials in which case might I suggest you produce more comparably important eHow guides such as how to survive - first breathe in and then breath out again, or how to move - first stand up then walk then sit down. Maybe a quick tutorial on gravity - it is hard to jump and you cannot fly but we can lie down? But if Lynn as I suspect you actually don't know the first thing about the topics you write on, then please spare us more of this type of dribble. The point of a contribution is that it should show us things we don't already know, that should be its value.
