The Board Game Developer: Become a Game Design Ninja Video Course

Curriculum For This Course

• 1. Grid Game: The Designer's Toolbox 13 Videos 01:51:00
  • Victory Conditions 9:00
  • The Designer's Notebook 1:00
  • Mechanics 9:00
  • Rules 12:00
  • What's a Game? 5:00
  • Player Experience Option 1 - Building from the Mechanics 11:00
  • Player Experience Option 2 - Building from the Theme 7:00
  • Components 14:00
  • Player Choice 13:00
  • Case Study 1: Escape From The Curse Of The Temple 7:00
  • Preparing to Playtest 7:00
  • Using Feedback 9:00
  • Solve With Tuning 6:00
• 2. The Floor is Lava: Deeper into Design Theory 11 Videos 01:36:00
  • Player Centric Design 5:00
  • Coming Up With Ideas 19:00
  • Design Inspiration 3:00
  • Essential Experience 5:00
  • Inventory: Basic UI 7:00
  • Game Space: The Board 9:00
  • Basic Mechanics: Movement 11:00
  • Cost and Risk: Actions 8:00
  • Tradeoff and Choice: Designing Items 11:00
  • Iterative Design: The Why and How of Playtesting 8:00
  • Playtesting The Floor Is Lava 10:00
• 3. Deck Builder: Adding the Awesome 18 Videos 03:23:00
  • Welcome to Section 3! 1:00
  • What's a Deck Builder? 8:00
  • Case Study 2: Paperback 5:00
  • Feature Creep 11:00
  • Probability Fundamentals 17:00
  • Probability In Your Game 20:00
  • Creating a Game's Economy: Making the Cards 11:00
  • Secrets: Obscuring Information from Players 10:00
  • Lies: Bluffing and Betrayal 15:00
  • Populating your Deck 7:00
  • Silence: Making Cooperative Games Awesome 7:00
  • Preparing to Playtest our Deck builder 6:00
  • Playtesting Scrap Genius 12:00
  • Advanced Choice: Dilemma 10:00
  • Asymmetry 14:00
  • Publishing Your Game 14:00
  • Legacy Games 19:00
  • Writing Rules 16:00
• 4. Let's make a CCG/LCG 4 Videos 00:42:00
  • Making a CCG 13:00
  • The UI of a CCG 7:00
  • Populating your Deck: Brainstorming 9:00
  • Expanding Your CCG 13:00
• 5. Let's make a hidden movement game! 5 Videos 00:48:00
  • What is a hidden movement game? 6:00
  • Details of our Hidden Movement Game 14:00
  • Making our Map 14:00
  • The Rules of our Hidden Movement Game 8:00
  • Playtesting our Hidden Movement Game 6:00
• 6. Bonus Content 3 Videos 02:42:00
  • Bonus - Group Coaching Session #1Recording 57:00
  • Bonus - Group Coaching Session #2Recording 52:00
  • Bonus - Group Coaching Session #3Recording 53:00