Amid Board Game Boom, Designers Roll The Dice On Odd Ideas — Even Exploding Cows Sales of hobby games grew about 20 percent last ... students are learning the fundamentals of board game design.

A board game called Boss Monster made over $200,000 with Kickstarter in November on a $12,000 ask. Prior to the campaign, the Brotherwise Games prototypes had been produced through The Game Crafter.

Game design is about collaborating with others and learning how to solve challenges — all skills that children should be able to learn at a young age.

I’m addicted to connections—board game design and criticism give me that special hit because games are dialectical. Their form relies on stringing together familiar operations, abstractions, metaphors ...

These two major changes saw a huge upsurge in creativity in the board game design space that would rocket over the next ten years, leading to a slew of all-time classic board games in the mid-'00s ...

Do board and pen-and-paper games represent a purer form of gaming than video games? Quintin Smith has an interesting post over at Kotaku in which he argues that board games and pen-and-paper RPGs ...

To date, he has designed 15 published games — not counting expansions or reprints — including his signature Century series of games, which ranks No. 260 on BoardGameGeek.com, a popular board ...