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Lizzy Funkhouser, designer of Something to Fear, discusses what it looks like to pay attention to detail when designing a game.

Lizzy loves to add Easter egg type details into her games to enhance the gaming experience, and we get into lots of examples and ways to add cool things to a design.

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John Brieger, professional freelancer, discusses what it looks like to make a living working on board games.

John is a designer, developer, editor, and more, and he’s been working on games full-time for about a year.

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Joe Pilkus, professional game developer, discusses the lessons he’s learned from developing games over the years.

Joe has worked on games from Stonemaier Games, Academy Games, and many other major publishers, and he’s been helping fledgling game designers online for years.

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Derek Funkhouser, designer of Walking Dead: Something to Fear, discusses how to design games that create magic moments.

Derek is the lead developer at Skybound Games and loves designing so that players enjoy awesome moments that they’ll talk about for years to come.

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Wes Woodbury, designer of Legends of Novus, discusses how to design a fantasy-themed game.

We talk about world-building, combat systems, art, and more. 

And be sure to check out Wes’s fantasy-themed board game on Kickstarter HERE.

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Ryan Langewisch, designer of Tasty Humans, discusses how to create and update a game quickly and efficiently.

Ryan recently won a 48-hour game jam and has gotten really good at the iteration process.

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Luke Laurie, designer of Energy Empire, discusses all the ins and outs of creating a worker placement game.

Luke has a ton of experience with the genre with 4 more worker placement games set to come out over the next 2 years.

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Ian Zang, developer for Deep Water Games, discusses 4 different types of gamer experiences.

Ian has simplified and categorized different ways that people experience games, and he shares a lot to think about as designers.

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Nikki Valens, designer of Mansions of Madness, discusses how to design a narrative driven game.

Nikki has designed some of my absolute favorite games and is a master of creating games that tell good stories.

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The post [BONUS] Bob and Ryan Craig on Drawing Inspiration from Retro Games appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.

Bob and Ryan Craig, founders of One Day West Games, discuss how to design a tile-laying game.

Their game, Monster Highway, is a fast-playing tile laying game about escaping from a Godzilla style monster, and they have several other tiling games in the works.

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