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Published — 22. Mai 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Feeling like a FAILURE: Rejection and board game design

✇Adam in Wales - Board Game Design
Von: Adam in Wales - Board Game Design
22. Mai 2025 um 16:46

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Adam Porter is a seasoned board game designer with hundreds of pitches under his belt. He is also a trainer in Communication Skills and Interview Technique. And like most board game designers, he's experienced a LOT of rejections. Here's how to take feedback while remaining professional.

'Adam in Wales: Getting Published' is available worldwide, via Amazon's print on demand service, and as an ebook.

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Published — 12. Mai 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Make your players feel CLEVER

✇Adam in Wales - Board Game Design
Von: Adam in Wales - Board Game Design
12. Mai 2025 um 12:05

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'Adam in Wales: Playtesting' is available worldwide, via Amazon's print on demand service, and as an ebook.

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Playtesting is the heart of game design. Ideas flow thick and fast for many designers, but it is only by getting them on the table in front of players that we see what we have created.

Playtesting is the process by which designers turn ideas into experiences.

This book describes:

- The purpose of playtesting
- Types of playtests
- Protecting your idea
- How many playtests are necessary
- Documenting playtests
- Forms of playtester feedback

... and then goes on to describe 100 questions you should ask during the playtesting process, with a detailed rationale for each of them.

About the author

Adam Porter is an award winning game designer from the United Kingdom, known for making accessible games suitable for families, and for his popular YouTube channel Adam in Wales where Adam talks candidly about his experiences pitching and licensing games to publishers. Many new designers have looked to Adam for guidance when taking their first steps in the board game industry. Adam's published games include Pikoko, Doodle Rush, Kompromat, Qwuzzle, Zooligans, Thrown, Big Bazar, Happy Hoppers, Ballot Battle, and Zing-a-Zam.

Adam's previous book 'Adam in Wales: Board Game Designer Journal' is available as a physical book from Amazon worldwide, or as a download from DriveThruRPG.com
Published — 29. April 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Is Every Game REALLY Political?

✇No Pun Included
Von: No Pun Included
29. April 2025 um 20:33

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Published — 07. April 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Don't worry, Galactic Cruise is VERY safe | Our review

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Von: No Pun Included
07. April 2025 um 16:03

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Published — 12. März 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Is Arydia the Next Board Game Superhit?

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Von: No Pun Included
12. März 2025 um 14:56

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Published — 03. Februar 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

This is Arousal

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Von: No Pun Included
03. Februar 2025 um 17:23

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Sources:

Elliott Hedman - The Frustration of Learning Monopoly - https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/the-frustration-of-learning-monopoly-the-emotional-tension-of-entering-a-new-game-encounter/

Elliott Bruce Hedman - Thich Psychophysiology for Empathic Design - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/91436

R. W. Picard - Multiple Arousal Theory and Daily-Life Electrodermal Activity Asymmetry - https://zenodo.org/records/898187

The Family Bond - Risk Legacy by Rob Daviau (PRACTICE 2013 at NYU Game Center Dec 2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPTTZrvrK8s

Wolfram Boucsein - Electrodermal Acitivity - Second Edition - Springer Science & Business Media

Rob Matheson - Wearable device reveals consumer emotions - https://news.mit.edu/2017/wearable-device-reveals-consumer-emotions-0712

Danielle Kirsh - This wearable measures your emotions - https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/wearable-measures-emotions/

Elliott Hedman- Old Account - Frustration Learning Instructions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzbkBA2MJTY

mPath - https://www.buildempathy.com/


Music by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com


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Published — 15. Januar 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

No Pun Included's Board Game of the Year 2024

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Von: No Pun Included
15. Januar 2025 um 22:44

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Videos featured:

You Will Win This Game 100% of the Time | Dorfromantik: the Board Game Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bILqY6wXdBc&t=14s
Wilmot's Warehouse - Create Stories to Remember - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHa17b9fJAE&t=5s
I'm not saying that Slay the Spire: The Board Game is better than the original - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKixs5tJ2zk
Daybreak / e-Mission Review | Can a Board Game Save the World? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owrJJv-U0j8
Weird Games I Found at Essen Spiel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Ga3NbUF3M

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Published — 28. Oktober 2024 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

SETI is "The Best of" Euro Games

✇No Pun Included
Von: No Pun Included
28. Oktober 2024 um 18:02

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Published — 23. September 2024 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Pampero and Why Euro Games Don't Hit the Same Anymore

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Von: No Pun Included
23. September 2024 um 18:02

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Published — 21. August 2024 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Leviathan Wilds is Spectacular

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Von: No Pun Included
21. August 2024 um 18:11

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Published — 15. Juli 2024 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

I'm not saying that Slay the Spire: The Board Game is better than the original

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Von: No Pun Included
15. Juli 2024 um 18:06

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Published — 04. Juni 2024 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

My Favourite Game: Ra

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Von: No Pun Included
04. Juni 2024 um 18:00

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