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James Van Niekerk, professional graphic designer and creator of Valor & Villainy, discusses colors, fonts, hierarchies, and tons of other concepts that you need to think about when working through the graphic design of a game.

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Tim Fowers, designer of Burgle Bros and Fugitive, discusses how to design deduction games.

Fugitive is one of my favorite deduction games, and Tim’s next game, Sabotage, is also a really cool deduction game coming out later this year.

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Steven Aramini, designer of Animal Kingdoms, discusses how to design an area control game.

Animal Kingdoms won the 2018 Cardboard Edison award and is a really clever, card-driven area control game.

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Fabian Zimmermann, designer of Goodcritters, discusses how to design a negotiation game.

Goodcritters is the most recent game in the Dice Tower Essentials line, and negotiation is the core of the game.

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Darwin Kastle, from White Wizard Games, discusses how to design a deck builder.

Darwin is a hall of fame Magic: the Gathering player and has a TON of experience designing card games. His most popular games are Star Realms and Hero Realms.

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Rita Orlov discusses how to design a good puzzle game.

Through her company, Post Curious, Rita designs deeply immersive games for people who enjoy a good challenge.

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Daniel and Connie Kazmaier discuss how they put together a rather large online playtesting group for their game, Chai.

They have nearly 800 playtesters in their group and go into how they’ve nurtured and developed it.

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Part 2! Skull, Spyfall, Sheriff of Nottingham, and Dead Man’s Draw.

Stephen and Michael Stagliano discuss designing an RPG system. They’ve been working on their own tabletop RPG game, and they run a podcast, both called Tavern of Heroes.

They’ve been playing and designing role playing games for years, and we have a lively discussion on the ins and outs of putting one together. These guys have an incredibly high charisma modifier, haha.

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Jamey Stegmaier and I discuss what went wrong with my Kickstarter campaign and what I’m doing differently for the relaunch.

Check out the relaunch of The Final Flicktier HERE.

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In a Board Games With Friends first, it’s a double feature! Rainbow Dash will come back with her recommendations for holiday games that are a little spicier next [unit of time] when I can get around to drawing the update.

Once again this time’s games are:

Timeline, The Mind, Codenames, and Sushi Go.

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