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Published — 15. Juni 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

How to Design a NATURE themed Board Game

✇Adam in Wales - Board Game Design
Von: Adam in Wales - Board Game Design
15. Juni 2025 um 14:11

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Adam explores nature-themed board games like Finspan, highlighting their design choices. He also touches on the educational elements in games like Primates and Nature from NorthStar Games. Enjoy this deep dive into the board game industry and see some exciting board game releases, with loads of tips for board game designers.

Review Copies Recieved: Finspan (Stonemaier Games), Nature (NorthStar Games) and Primates (Green Butterfly Games).

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My 'Adam in Wales: Game Design' books are available worldwide, via Amazon's print on demand service, and as an ebook.

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0:00 Introduction
2:47 Beauty
5:16 Simulation
7:38 Education
10:41 Fantasy
14:05 Game Design Books
14:54 Set Collection
16:09 Drafting
18:54 Tableau Building
23:51 Area Control
27:07 Animal Characteristics
29:08 Who are we?
31:01 Summary
Published — 14. Juni 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Stalingrad Roads - Wargame Teach & Play

✇Homo Ludens
Von: Homo Ludens
14. Juni 2025 um 19:21

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In this teach and play session, I’m joined by friend of the show James Buckley to dive into Stalingrad Roads, the 2024 hex-and-counter wargame from French publisher Nuts! Publishing. Covering the Soviet counteroffensive that encircled and shattered the Axis forces around Stalingrad, this title offers both classic operational gameplay and fresh twists on momentum, command, and attrition. Whether you're curious about the 'Roads' system or just love a good Eastern Front slugfest, this one’s for you.

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Published — 12. Juni 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Mastering A Gest of Robin Hood – Strategy Panel with BGA Top Players

✇Homo Ludens
Von: Homo Ludens
12. Juni 2025 um 10:18

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In this special strategy stream, I’m joined by a panel of top-ranked players from BoardGameArena to explore the tactics, nuances, and advanced play of A Gest of Robin Hood, the game I designed and released with GMT Games in 2024.

Together, we’ll break down the game’s asymmetry, key decision points, and strategic arcs from the perspective of both the outlaw Robin Hood and the law-and-order Sheriff of Nottingham. Expect deep dives into tempo control, plot synergy, and so much more.

We'll also try to answer the eternal question: which faction is OP?

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Published — 08. Juni 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Battlefields Of The Napoleonic Wars - Teach & Play with Paolo Mori

✇Homo Ludens
Von: Homo Ludens
08. Juni 2025 um 06:53

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Join us for a special SDHistCon Online event as I sit down with acclaimed designer Paolo Mori (Blitzkrieg!, Pandemic: Fall of Rome) to learn and play his self-published system: Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars.

In this elegant and fast-paced take on Napoleonic warfare, Paolo distills grand battles into sharp tactical showdowns across a series of small, scenario-driven maps. Stripping things down to bold maneuvers, timing, and bluffing, this minimalist system captures the tension and drama of Napoleonic command without the usual overhead. It’s wargaming through Paolo’s signature design lens — clever, streamlined, and full of surprises.

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Rebels Against Rebellion - Historical Discussion with David Thompson (SD Histcon)

✇Homo Ludens
Von: Homo Ludens
08. Juni 2025 um 05:05

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Tireless designer David Thompson (the Undaunted series, War Story, Night Witches, and countless more) is joined by questionable historian Stuart Ellis-Gorman to discuss the historical background to David’s latest (and first ever American Civil War) game: Rebels Against Rebellion, to be published by Flying Pig Games. They will discuss how David came to pick this topic, Southern loyalism in the American Civil War, the challenges in representing nineteenth-century guerilla warfare, and when David is finally going to design that Gettysburg game everyone wants him to do, among other topics.

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Published — 02. Juni 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game Review

✇Drive Thru Games
Von: Drive Thru Games
02. Juni 2025 um 23:47

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Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game Review

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Intro (00:00);
game overview (01:56);
final thoughts and review (09:51);

The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/429293/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-trick-taking-game
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Office Dog https://www.officedoggames.com/

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Published — 29. Mai 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Time to Say Goodbye to Ticket to Ride

✇No Pun Included
Von: No Pun Included
29. Mai 2025 um 20:34

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#boardgames #review #tickettoride

T-SHIRTS!!! https://no-pun-included-shop.fourthwall.com/

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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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#boardgames #review If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

Our board game podcast is called Talk Cardboard which you can find on your podcast devices or our website https://nopunincluded.com

Find Amabel Holland's Mechanisms as Metaphos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4zLcKsCiA

Find my Keynote from the Spiel des Jahres Board Game Criticism Day here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuwHj08JkE

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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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#boardgames #review #galacticcruise If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

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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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#boardgames #review #arydia If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

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Published — 03. Februar 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

This is Arousal

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

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#boardgames #review #tabletop If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

Our board game podcast is called Talk Cardboard which you can find on your podcast devices or our website https://nopunincluded.com

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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#boardgames #review #goty If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

Our board game podcast is called Talk Cardboard which you can find on your podcast devices or our website https://nopunincluded.com

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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

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

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#boardgames #review #seti If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

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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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#boardgames #review #leviathanwilds If you'd like to support thoughtful and responsible board game media, consider donating to us on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded

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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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