Making the Game: Geek Designers Discuss Their Own Games, A Meta-List.

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

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I've made a geeklist recently giving a behind the scenes look at making my own games, and since I've posted that I've seen a few others. I'm sure there must be more that I haven't seen, so please add on if you know of any others.

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Edited Thu Aug 2, 2007 7:55 pm
Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:29 pm

1. Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Andreas Seyfarth discusses Puerto Rico's ancestral games.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...

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Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:29 pm

2. Board Game: Funny Friends [Average Rating:6.52 Overall Rank:889]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Marcel-André Casasola Merkle discusses the origins of his games.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...

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Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:29 pm

3. Board Game: Fortress Europa [Average Rating:6.51 Overall Rank:1765]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Alan Moon discusses his days at Avalon Hill.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...

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Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:29 pm

4. Board Game: Marvin Marvel's Marvelous Marble Machine [Average Rating:6.40 Overall Rank:4059]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

My list discusses life as an independent self-publisher.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...

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Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:29 pm

5. Board Game: Nin-Gonost [Average Rating:6.45 Unranked]

(The Artist formerly known as) Arnest R

(arnest_r)

Germany
Munich
Bavaria

Paul DeStefano´s :

TRUE story of life of a game company, BGG and me
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/13921

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Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:55 pm

6. Board Game: Axis & Allies [Average Rating:6.86 Overall Rank:488]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Mike Selinker's 15-part discussion of his work on the 2004 revised version of Axis & Allies is superb:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/article/ah20031205a

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Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:33 pm

J (RBG)

(rootbeer)

Canada
Slave Lake
AB

Yeah, this is a very cool series of articles.

Posted Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:13 pm
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7. Board Game: Wiz-War [Average Rating:6.97 Overall Rank:586]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Tom Jolly offers advice to aspiring game designers
http://www.silcom.com/~tomjolly/design.htm

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Posted Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:04 pm

8. Board Game: 6 Billion [Average Rating:5.33 Overall Rank:7056]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

David Coutts discusses the making of 6 Billion
http://www.discovergames.com/gamedesign.html

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Posted Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:08 pm

9. Board Game: Wings of War: The Dawn of World War II [Average Rating:6.95 Overall Rank:634]

Paul Boos

(pmboos)

Spain
Falls Church
Virginia

Let's not forget Andrea Angiolino's list...
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/2063

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Posted Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:16 pm

10. Board Game: Power Grid [Average Rating:8.09 Overall Rank:5]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

New Addition:

The origins of my games (Friedemann Friese)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/19015

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Posted Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:58 pm

11. Board Game: Ad Acta [Average Rating:6.26 Overall Rank:2656]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

New addition:

The origins of my games (Andrea Meyer)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/19681

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Posted Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:38 am

12. GeekList: Self-Publishing The Hard Way - Highs And Lows

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Jackson Pope discusses the self-publishing of his game, Border Reivers, and others.

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Posted Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:48 am

13. Board Game: Elementalis [Average Rating:5.11 Overall Rank:6837]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Robert Kalajlan's 3 part blog about designing Elementalis

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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Posted Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:48 pm

14. Board Game: Honeypot [Average Rating:7.07 Unranked]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Marc Majcher and his design group blogged about making Honeypot

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Posted Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:51 pm

15. Board Game: Search for Poseidon's Gold [Average Rating:6.08 Unranked]

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Doug Borresen tells the story on the making of his self-published game The Search for Poseidon's Gold.

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Posted Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:42 pm

16. GeekList: Warpspawn: The Ultimate Toybox

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Lloyd Krassner of Warspawn Game discusses The Big Book of Games and other offerings.

In a separate geeklist, he rants about print and play games in general in Delusions of Grandeur: Print & Play Game Designer's Rant List.

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Edited Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:14 pm
Posted Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:13 pm

17. Cannonball Colony :: Thread: Designer's Notes for Cannonball Colony

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(mr_lunch)

Australia
Adelaide
SA

Phil Harding discusses some of the background for his latest abstract.

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Posted Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:26 pm

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

And again in this more detailed thread.

Posted Fri Sep 5, 2008 5:23 am
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18. Thread: Game Design & Self-Publishing – A Resource for Game Designers

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Byron Collins' exhaustive discussion of self publishing his upcoming war games, Frontline General and Frontline General: Italian Campaign Introduction. Very thorough hashing over of the various details it takes to self publish a game.

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Posted Tue Jul 1, 2008 12:49 pm

19. Thread: From Idea to reality

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Michael Walsh talks about making his print and play game, Back to Blighty.

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Posted Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:34 pm

20. Thread: My Anti-Climactic Adventure of Becoming a Published Designer

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Aaron Watson discusses how his game "Temple of the Monkey" became "The Princess Bride: Storming the Castle".

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Posted Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:38 pm

21. GeekList: Getting a Game Made Professionally

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Jackson Pope discusses going from self-publishing to publishing full-time.

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Posted Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:57 pm

22. Board Game: Pack & Stack [Average Rating:6.46 Overall Rank:1007]

Jeffrey Allers

(jeffinberlin)

Germany
Berlin

For those interested, I just started a blog featuring the design process involved in games that are released from our Berlin playtesting group:

http://berlingamedesign.blogspot.com/

Thanks for this list--I always find it fascinating to hear how a game is developed. I have even come to enjoy the design process almost more than playing finished games!

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Posted Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:06 pm

23. GeekList: The origins of my games (Michael Schacht)

Greg Lam

(slam74)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Michael Schacht discusses his games. So far it's only four of his, but I imagine he'll get to his more well known games.

Edit: It's now up to 55 games.