Board Game Design Lab

By: Gabe Barrett
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  • Helping You Design Great Games People Love
    2023
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  • The design process of one of the world’s best designers, Corey Konieczka

    The design process of one of the world’s best designers, Corey Konieczka
    Feb 26 2024

    In this BGDL rewind from June of 2020, Corey Konieczka breaks down his entire design process. Corey has several games ranked in the top 100 games of all time, and it was incredibly insightful to learn about how he brings a game to life. We chat about his path into the industry, his prototyping process,...

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • How to Design an Engine Building Game with Elizabeth Hargrave

    How to Design an Engine Building Game with Elizabeth Hargrave
    Feb 19 2024

    In this BGDL rewind from May of 2019, Elizabeth Hargrave dives into all the ins and outs of designing an engine-building game. We chat about her personal design process and all the interesting obstacles she encountered when designing Wingspan. We also talk about how to layer concepts on top of each other, balancing winning strategies,...

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    54 mins
  • How to Design Games that Tell Stories with Ignacy Trzewiczek

    How to Design Games that Tell Stories with Ignacy Trzewiczek
    Feb 11 2024

    In this BGDL rewind from April of 2020, Ignacy Trzewiczek, founder of Portal Games and designer of Robinson Crusoe, discusses his company’s motto: Games that tell stories. We go in-depth into Ignacy’s design process, talk about his most popular games, and get to the heart of what it looks like to create games that have players leaving...

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    1 hr and 3 mins

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My favourite game design podcast

Great conversations with great ideas. I admire the endless bucket of topics and ideas brought here.

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love it.

love it. it spews all kinds of info I crave. so valuable. what else can I say?

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