Board/Card Game Design Resources
Please add any tabletop game design resources here be they card games, board games, dice games etc.
Design Resources
- Board Game Geek design forum
- Magic Lessons: Designing and Balancing Game Objects Must read!
- Making Magic Archive - Over 400 articles by Wizards of the Coast on making Magic: The Gathering.
- Rarity and Power: Balance in Collectible card games
- Board Game Designers Forum - A bit hard to navigate the main site.
- Google Tech Talk on Board Game Design of Krakow 1325 AD
- Evil Genius VS Spies (created by Eric Raue, feel free to contact him)
- The club has a Steampunk CCG in development.
Prototyping and Supplies
- Recipe cards found at a dollar store are really good for prototyping card games.
- Printable grids including hex, polar, triangle and more.
Learn about existing board games
- BoardGameGeek - The best place to find information about board games
- Board game video reviews
- Craving for a Game - Located in the Surrey Central City Mall
- Has a free board games night every Thursday
- The store owner is very knowledgeable about board games and is a great place to research games
- Offers student discounts on larger purchases
- SFU Boardgame Club - moc.liamg|ufsbulcemagdraob#moc.liamg|ufsbulcemagdraob
- Meets weekly to play a variety of board games
- Mostly German style games and rarely games like Monopoly or Risk.
News websites
Printing and Self Publishing
- You can self publish using the print on demand service http://www.thegamecrafter.com/ but shipping is expensive to Canada currently but this will change soon.
- SFU Document Solutions costs around $22 to print 140 cards on card stock.
Games Worth Looking At
Add your favourite board/card games to the list.
- Dominion - Deck building game
- Citadels - 2-8 player game where players constantly switch between characters with different abilities.
- Settlers of Catan - Trading system which is considered to be a gateway game to get people interested in more sophisticated games.
- No Thanks! - All about pushing your luck.
- Five Crowns - The dynamics change each round even though the rules do not.
- 10 Days in Europe
- Neuroshima Hex - Hex based strategy game with an interesting battle system.
- Magic: The Gathering - The CCG that started everything and has maintained good design for over 17 years.
- Netrunner - Asymmetric card game by the creator of Magic.
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